High-risk payments resource guide
Since 2002, the team at Tasker Payment Gateways LLC has learned, written about, and organized an enormous amount of information regarding high-risk products, payment gateways, high-risk merchant accounts, and website builders in the United States and Canada.
Need to sell pipes or cigars on Squarespace? Unable to connect Authorize.Net to your Wix FFL checkout page? Shut down by Shopify Payments after spending hours building out your vape site? Are you trying to choose a shopping cart? Unable to add more than one merchant account to your payment gateway? We can probably help.
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A+ rated and BBB accredited, Tasker Payment Gateways LLC recommends high-risk payment gateways, assists with merchant account advice, and helps with software and platform integrations. To continue our mission, we created this comprehensive resource page that neatly catalogs our vast library of high-risk specific posts and links.
Below is our High-Risk Payment Gateway and Shopping Cart Resource Guide. Above the guide is a table of contents that is organized by category and theme.
While we work to provide the best information possible, we aren’t able to update all pages at all times.
For the most up to date advice or for a payment gateway and high-risk merchant account recommendation, please get in touch with us here. We’re always happy to help!
High-risk payment gateways
- What is the best high-risk payment gateway?
- What you need to know about preferred gateways & high-risk sales
- Common high-risk products and services
- High-risk credit card processing options with Authorize.Net
- Open-ended buy now buttons
- Integrate a Shift4Shop site with Authorize.Net
- Authorize.Net’s prohibited categories
- Apple Pay and Authorize.Net – NMI
- Integrate Drupal with Authorize.net
- GoDaddy Authorize.Net Accounts
- Integrate Magento with Authorize.net
- Authnet.Net, Shopify & high-risk
- Authorize.Net, Vtiger, and high-risk
- Authorize.Net & firearms
- Authorize.Net & online firearms sales
High-risk ePN payment gateway
High-risk NMI payment gateway
- High-risk credit card processing with NMI
- Top 35 NMI features & settings
- How to export cardholder data from Braintree into NMI
- How to find a processor ID in NMI
- How to refund a customer – NMI / Network Merchants Inc
- How to recharge a refund made in error through your payment gateway
- How to recharge a refund: NMI
- NMI payment gateway features
- How to change your bank account information with NMI
- NMI, WooCommerce & high-risk
- WooCommerce 2.5 NMI plug-in
- Student loan businesses, Debt Pay Pro, and the NMI gateway
High-risk industry resources
There are often changes to the high-risk environment. For the most up to date advice, feel free to contact us. We’re more than happy to help.
Alcohol online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
CBD online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
- Selling CBD oil online 101: Accepting credit cards for CBD in the US
- Canadian CBD payment gateways
- Sell CBD and smoking accessories using the same gateway
News, regulations, and updates for CBD businesses:
Cigars online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
- Cigar payment gateways Shift4Shop
- Cigars, WooCommerce, & payment gateways
- How to sell cigars on Shopify
- Selling cigars on BigCommerce
Cigar news and advice:
Coaching online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
Credit repair online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
FFL to FFL online payments: gateways and merchant accounts
- FFL friendly payment gateways
- Shift4Shop FFL payment gateways
- BigCommerce for FFL dealers
- AmmoReady: software spotlight
- Authorize.Net & firearms
- Authorize.Net & online firearms sales
- WooCommerce FFL payment gateways
- FFL processing requirements
- Foxy Cart FFL payment gateways
- Gearfire, FFLs, and e-commerce
- GunBroker payment gateways and merchant accounts
- FFL payments online. How it works
- Can you sell guns on Shopify?
- Wix and FFL e-commerce
FFL news, updates, and regulations:
Loan consolidation – online payment gateways and merchant accounts
Pawnshop – online payment gateways and merchant accounts
Pipes, bongs & glassware online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
- Pipe & glassware payment gateways
- Pipe & glass WooCommerce sales
- Stripe & PayPal alternatives for pipe and glassware (this post includes links to Paypal’s and Stripe’s prohibited use/products pages)
- X-Cart payment gateway (pipes)
- Sell pipes, glass, and CBD using the same gateway
News, updates, and tips for smoking accessory merchants
Supplements – payment gateways and merchant account recommendations
Tactical payment gateways and merchant account recommendations
- Tactical site builders and shopping carts (our top 2)
- Payment gateways for tactical websites
- WooCommerce payment gateways for tactical sites
Vape and e-liquids online: How to set up a payment gateway and merchant account
- Vape & WooCommerce no reserve
- Online e-cigarettes state laws
- How to sell vape products online without a $500 fee
- Vape payment gateways for Shopify
- Vaping merchant accounts with low or no reserves emerging
- Vaping related news worth reading if you are in the business
- Vape solutions for WooCommerce
Vape news and regulations
- Authorize.Net terms no longer ban e-cigs?
- Big news in the vape and e-juice world
- The FDA’s renewed focus on vaping
- Vape Spotlight: Selling a drug?
- House & FDA news on vape & cigars
- Heated tobacco enters the market
- A good time to start a vape site
- Altria in CBD & vape market?
- New info on selling e-cigarettes released
- OMB strikes part of vape rule
- New vape regulations – are you compliant?
Web Devs
Website builders and shopping carts
We take pride in always writing up the most up to date information when providing our advice. However, we aren’t always able to keep everything up to date at all times. If you see that one of our resources was published a while ago, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’ll be able to provide you with the most up to date information and advice directly. You can contact us here.
AsecureCart
BigCommerce
Drupal
ECWID
FluidPay
Foxy
GoDaddy
GunBroker
JigoShop
Magento
OpenCart
osCommerce
PrestaShop
PrestoMart
QuickBooks
Shift4Shop
- Payment gateways for Shift4Shop
- Selling cigars on Shift4Shop using a high-risk payment gateway
- FFL dealers & Shift4Shop: a high-risk payment gateway spotlight
- Integrate Shift4Shop site with Authorize.Net
Shopify
- Authnet.Net, Shopify & high-risk
- Declined by Shopify Payments?
- Shopify and gateway emulators
- Shopify & Bold Commerce
ShopKeep
Signifyd
Squarespace
vTiger
Weebly
WHMCS
Wix
- Wix payment processor alternatives – what are the options?
- How to sell high-risk products with Wix & Authorize.Net
- Wix and FFL e-commerce
WooCommerce
xCart
High-risk e-commerce tips and SEO advice
While the high-risk e-commerce tips below don’t generally contain time-sensitive info, it’s important to keep the publishing date in mind. If you need any merchant account tips, gateway recommendations, or high-risk friendly software advice, you can reach us here. We’re always happy to help!
E-commerce
- AB tests & e-commerce tips
- High-risk tips: when to mitigate or fight chargebacks – and how to do it
- Fixing Facebook image issues
- Three tips for high-risk sites
- Marketing high-risk products online
- Eight website conversion rate tips
High-risk SEO
- HTTPS and high-risk SEO – July 2018
- High-risk, SEO, & mobile-first
- SEO news and tips, June 2018
- SSL & SEO for vape, cigar & FFL sites
- When major search engines prohibit your ads
- YMYL: Need to know SEO
Fraud protection
Processing information
- What is the Address Verification System (AVS)?
- Free trial offers: think twice before offering them
- Understanding merchant account volume limits
- Products and services prohibited by Stripe
High-risk Canadian e-commerce:
- Canadian high-risk payment gateways
- Canadian CBD payment gateways
- Payment processing recommendations for Canadian and First Nations dispensaries
Need a high-risk payment gateway?
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