CardProcessor.co.uk is a free to use site designed to explain how to obtain an online merchant account or a third party merchant system in order to accept credit card payments for your goods or services via your web site.

In general terms, many of the UK banks, despite making claims of being "Internet Aware" are shockingly behind the times and will often place hurdles in the way of letting you accept cards via the Internet.

For those that are lucky enough to be granted Internet Merchant status, the fees are often extortionate - but what's new?

This is the UK banking system we are talking about here, so you can expect sub-standard service, high prices and a lovely condescending attitude.

Welcome to the UK Internet Banking experience!

But it's not all bad news. There are some good guys and depending on what type of business you are running, it is possible to accept credit cards from your web site at relatively low cost.

The information presented on this site is based on our own experience. It is not to be considered as being "professional advice", but our hope is that if you are looking to accept credit card payments from your web site, that you can benefit from some the mistakes we made along the way.

CardProcessor.co.uk is a Hollywood Internet Ltd free information web site.

We do not offer any payment systems integration services ourselves.