Point of Sale (POS) Glossary
A merchant account is a payment processing service that a business uses in the electronic payment transaction process. These accounts facilitate accepting credit cards, debit cards, and other types of electronic payments that are presented at a point of sale terminal in a store.
When a customer’s transaction is processed at the POS, the merchant account acts as a middle man to negotiate the transfer of money from a customer’s account to a business bank account. Services such as Paypal act as both a merchant account and bank account and are not merchant accounts.
In order to accept electronic payment transactions, a business will usually need a gateway that does the initial authorization of a transfer. This information is later sent to the merchant account (sometimes known as a credit card processor) that settles the transactions. If the transaction is confirmed, the money is sent to the merchant’s bank account.
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