jbeech Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 A search of this site doesn't reveal any pertinent answers, so I'll ask you guys. We are distributing several product lines, and each product line has its own oscommerce based website, i.e. www.productlineA.com, and www.productlineB.com, and www.productlineC.com. In turn, all of these domains reside under a master domain - so all the domains resolve to www.masterSITE.com. Thus, when a customer is shopping he sees www.productlineA.com but in reality the particular website is actually www.mastersite.com/productlineA . . . are we clear? Anyway, most business is via phone or mail and we've been doing manual entry of the CC numbers, but as internet based orders pick up, things are getting busier (no complaint mind you). Hence, we're interested in adding to, or moving from, our established brick-and-mortar merchant service to an internet merchant account service (like authorize.net) to ease our workload. Here's my question (finally). Does anybody know if each website requires its own merchant account, or if we'll require just one? John Beech - GM (and janitor)
GraphicsGuy Posted January 25, 2005 Posted January 25, 2005 I don't know if this applies to all merchant account banks. Mine informed me that as long as all sites are part of the one business for which the merchant account is set up and only one bank account is linked to it, then it doesn't matter how many sites are involved. The way you have it set up as actually resolving to a single actual domain, it shouldn't be any problem at all since it is really one domain. You will definitely want to ask before signing up for a merchant account to make sure it would meet your needs. hth Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database. Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1.
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