Authorize.Net Merchant Services

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway is a secure Internet bridge between merchant businesses and the credit card and electronic check payment processing networks. They provide merchants with fast, reliable and secure passage for transaction data via a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Internet Protocol (IP) connection, and manage the complex routing of payment information to the appropriate credit card processors. See a diagram that illustrates a typical Authorize.Net credit card transaction.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway is available to merchants seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The payment gateway offers many features and options that can be tailored to specific merchant business models. To learn more about how the Authorize.Net Payment Gateway can support your particular business, please visit one of the following pages:

• Web Merchant Solutions
• Retail Merchant Solutions
• Mail Order & Telephone Order Merchant Solutions
• Mobile Merchant Solutions

Sign-up Forms

• Payment Gateway and Optional Merchant Account Setup Form

How do I begin using Authorize.Net?

The accouting module in Fishbowl Inventory has a wizard that walks you through the setup and integration process.

NOTE: Setup an eCommerce Type Account with Authorize, currently Fishbowl does not work with a Retail Type Account

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Payment Flow diagram courtesy of Authorize.Net. ©2006, Authorize.Net.