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wonton · 06-26-2003, 05:22 PM

Verotel, Glo-bill and 2000charge are all decent offshore processors.

There's a lot of bullshit misinformation floating around. First of all, it is the 3rd party processor or IPSP that must remain compliant with Visa and Mastercard within whatever region of the world they process in. It is NOT the job of the "sub-merchant", i.e. you, to determine in which geographic region you can or cannot acquire. Visa has no relationship with actual webmasters, only with the IPSP through the IPSPs merchant bank. It is up to the IPSP to tell you whether or not you are compliant and "acquire" you/reject you based on that determination.

You can sign up with whoever you want. If the processor is allowed to sign you up according to the card association rules in THEIR REGION OF THE WORLD, they will sign you up and you have nothing to worry about. If the processor cannot sign you up (e.g. US processors cannot sign up sub-merchants from outside the US under Visa USA rules) then they will not allow you to sign up in the first place. It's that simple.

06-26-2003, 05:22 PM
wonton Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 802	Verotel, Glo-bill and 2000charge are all decent offshore processors. There's a lot of bullshit misinformation floating around. First of all, it is the 3rd party processor or IPSP that must remain compliant with Visa and Mastercard within whatever region of the world they process in. It is NOT the job of the "sub-merchant", i.e. you, to determine in which geographic region you can or cannot acquire. Visa has no relationship with actual webmasters, only with the IPSP through the IPSPs merchant bank. It is up to the IPSP to tell you whether or not you are compliant and "acquire" you/reject you based on that determination. You can sign up with whoever you want. If the processor is allowed to sign you up according to the card association rules in THEIR REGION OF THE WORLD, they will sign you up and you have nothing to worry about. If the processor cannot sign you up (e.g. US processors cannot sign up sub-merchants from outside the US under Visa USA rules) then they will not allow you to sign up in the first place. It's that simple.