In the past it was much harder for businesses to process payments accepting multiple international currencies. Now the world has change and is completely open for anyone to conduct business in their language and in their country’s currency. The international merchant services that we offer enable big and small companies to compete in the global market by being able to accept and settle in several different currencies. We have the latest platform to help small businesses grow on the global scale.
If you are interested in processing Payments in Euro, we offer that as this will give you the competitive advantage by being able to tap into the European market and allow for your customers to make payments for the goods and services you offer in their country’s currency while you reap the benefit of increasing your customer base.
Our international merchant accounts will help your business expand into the Euro-zone as there are more than 300 million human beings residing in the EU which is almost the same size as the United States of American. This is roughly 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. The European Union consists of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Austria and Belgium. Additionally there is also Cyprus, France and Finland where people love to shop as well as Italy and Luxembourg. The area of Spain, Portugal and Netherlands presents an excellent opportunity. And we should also mention Malta and Slovenia.
We support several credit card processing networks for companies to accept MasterCard, Visa, European Direct Debit and American Express. The great thing about this is you don’t have to worry about the conversion as a merchant. For example, when you decide to process payments in Euros the payment is processed in real time and you have quick access to your funds.
By far the most preferred form of credit card payment in Europe is the European Direct Debit. We help you tap into this market and offer a great platform to help you expansion into these markets to process payments with the consumers’ local currency. The six countries that support this form of payment is the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France and the Netherlands.
We equip you with everything that you will need to operate such as a virtual terminal that will integrate with the following supported gateways:
- Ezic / NetBilling
- Jettis
- Network Merchants Inc (NMI)
- Pay.On
- RS Billing
- Plug n Pay
- MTrex (Vision Bankcard)
- Trident (Merchant eSolutions)
- Authorize.net
- Bibit
- Cybersource
- Wirecard
The world is much more connected and international merchant account and payment gateways are utilized by the largest brands to process payments in multiple countries and being able to take payments in more than 140 local currencies. You never have to worry about the currency exchange as all of that is managed by the system.
In Japan the most popular credit card payment type is the JCB. For foreign businesses that want to penetrate the Japanese market, we offer a quick and simple solution because consumers in the Japanese market spend more than $43 billion annually on goods and services so being able to process international credit cards will help you to be a part of the 10.5 million businesses in the world that offer JCB as a form of payments to customers. Every year, about 40 million Japanese people buy online and their choice of card is the JCB which reaches more than 50 million consumers in more than 19 countries around the globe. People often reference this as international offshore merchant account and in the United Kingdom there are more than 25 million consumers that pay with Switch. The Switch is the preferred method of most debit card that people in the UK use to pay for items online, in a retail store or mail orders. There is also Solo which is issued by the same company that offers Switch but it more tailored towards younger people and more than 1.5 billion was processed using the Switch debit card in 2003. Both of these debit cards are local to the UK and are processed in British Pounds Sterling. When Maestro had the opportunity to partner with Switch they partnered and now there is the MasterCard EU debit card.
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