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Protecting Against Card Testing

What is Card Testing?When we say Card Testing, we mean just that – someone is using your website to test out a series of card numbers to see which ones are good, and can be used to make other purchases. These card numbers are likely stolen, or purchased on the [...]

Authorize.net Multi-Factor Authentication

Using Multi-Factor Authentication with Authorize.netStarting in January, 2023, Authorize.net will require Users to provide a special code to verify their login. This code will be delivered via email to the address associated with the Authorize.net user account. We encourage users to make sure their email contact information is up to date [...]

What is a Payment Gateway?

A payment gateway is the online-equivalent of a credit card terminal. The payment gateways’ job is to encrypt, and then securely authorize a credit card transaction. Payment gateways are fundamentally required when accepting a credit card transaction online, because they’re responsible for storing sensitive credit card data. Sometimes these gateways [...]

Compare Gateways

($0.05/invoice)Included($10/month)Included ($15/month)($20/month, $0.35/transaction)Included ($10/ month, 0.75% of volume)   MX Merchant Authorize.Net Monthly Fees Free! $10/month Transaction Fees Free! $0.05/transaction Virtual Terminal Included Included Recurring Billing $10/month Included Customer Vault Included Included Fraud Protection Included Included Level 2 Processing $20/month Included Level 3 Processing Included with Level 2 Not Available Inventory [...]

What is Authorize.net?

Authorize.net is a type of payment gateway, or gateway for short. A payment gateway is the online-equivalent of a credit card terminal. The payment gateways’ job is to encrypt, and then securely authorize a credit card transaction. Payment gateways are fundamentally required when accepting a credit card transactions online, because they’re [...]

Activating your account

Once you purchase an Authorize.net account, activation is a simple process. Most merchants can get their account up and running in about 30 minutes. See below for an overview of the process. Activating your new account Open the Activation Email: When Dharma sets up your Authorize.net account, the welcome email will [...]

Running your first sale

Running Your First Sale. Once you activate your Authorize.net account and remove it from Test Mode, you’ll be ready to run your first transaction. You’ll do this in the Virtual Terminal. Watch the video below to see how it’s done. Need more help? Authorize.net has put together a great resource for [...]

What features does Authorize.net provide?

Authorize.net is a very powerful tool that can provide many different features for your business. Read about Authorize.net features here in more detail, but the brief list is: Virtual Terminal for manually keying-in credit card transactions through a web interface Recurring Billing so that you can create automatic weekly/monthly payments [...]

Setting your fraud filters

Setting your Fraud Filters. Address Verification is a very important service that you should be fully utilizing in order to protect yourself against fraud. Depending on the types of transactions you accept, you may need to edit your AVS settings so that international orders or specific purchases can be authorized. [...]

Can I also swipe credit cards through my Authorize.net gateway?

Please Note: Swipers are not currently available due to supply chain issues. We have no ETA on when they will become available again. Authorize.net makes it very easy to swipe/dip credit cards through your existing account! All Authorize.net accounts will allow you to both swiped transactions and EMV (chip card) [...]