NMI & Shopify: Payment gateways for high-risk websites
Shopify Payments prohibited products and services
Update: Shopify no longer supports new NMI payment gateway integrations. Read below or contact us today to find out how you can still open a high-risk web store and accept credit cards on Shopify.
Shopify offers a seamless, simple-to-use, out-of-the-box credit card processing gateway called Shopify Payments. Unfortunately for merchants in high-risk categories like electronic cigarettes, premium cigars, firearms, wine, beer and spirits, and trial-based supplement websites, Shopify Payments prohibits many e-commerce sites from using their payment platform.
There is no conspiracy here, Shopify is happy to process for just about any legal business type, and is great to work with, it’s only that their standard credit card processor does not accept all business types. Shopify Payments is very popular and works exceptionally well for traditional, low-risk businesses. If your site is either non-traditional or is considered high-risk, we will need to set you up with a high-risk-friendly Authorize.Net account that is matched on the back end to your business type.
Luckily, Shopify does offer merchants the option of using their own high-risk-friendly payment gateway and merchant account combo if it is set up correctly.
The Shopify integrated shopping cart works with over 70 payment gateways. But, they stopped supporting one of our favorites – Network Merchants, more commonly known as NMI. NMI is a leader among the various payment gateways and is highly regarded for its wealth of features and the flexibility it gives to all merchants. This especially benefits those websites that have been deemed “high-risk” by Shopify Payments. Although it is disappointing to many that they stopped supporting new NMI accounts, we can still quickly assist new high-risk Shopify merchants by carefully setting up an Authorize.Net payment gateway carefully integrated with a back-end processor that is the correct fit for their Shopify store.
If you need help accepting payments, contact us using the form at the bottom of this page
Businesses that have struggled to find a credit card processing recommendation and gateway that suits their needs have often found a perfect solution in NMI. Let us make it easy for you. We will help find you a merchant account that appreciates your business and work with you one-on-one to integrate an NMI payment gateway with your Shopify store.
What makes Shopify so great anyway?
Shopify is the brainchild of a programmer-turned-internet entrepreneur – and is arguably one of the more accessible and feature-rich platforms on which to create a virtual store for both traditional websites and high-risk e-commerce like vape, FFL, cigars, alcohol, and nutritional supplements.
For merchants without design or programming skills, it offers over a hundred professional and easy-to-customize templates to create a virtual storefront. For those wearing multiple hats, it provides easy and hassle-free store management features such as customer account administration, order fulfillment, and user-friendly refund tools.
Ready to accept credit cards on your vape, firearms, CBD, bong, or cigar site?
If your Shopify website has been turned down or shut off by Shopify Payments, please fill out the contact form below or call us anytime at (207) 772-8737. We’re happy to help!