Payment Solutions Glossary
Our payment solutions glossary is a useful resource that aims to help individuals and companies interested in payment processing solutions, to better understand the technical terminologies used within the payment processing industry. The links provided below are the most commonly used terms by online merchants and e commerce businesses and selecting a link will direct you to a detailed definition of the term. The primary areas of payment processing in which the terms below are commonly used include; credit card processing, e-check processing, acquiring banks, online payment systems, as well as online retail, online service providing, and all other forms of e-commerce.
Please click on any of the terms below in our payment solutions glossary to find out its meaning:
3
- 3-D Secure Authentication
- 3rd Party Processor
A
- Account Number
- ACH
- Acquirer
- Address Verification System (AVS)
- AdSense
- Affiliate Marketing
- American Express
- ASP - Application Service Provider
B
- B2B - Business to Business
- B2C - Business to Customer
- B2G-Business to Government
- Banner
- Billing Address
C
- Capture
- Chargeback
- Commerce Server
- Cost per Click
- Crawl Rate
- Credit Card Fraud
- Credit Card Processing
D
- Digital Goods
- Digital Receipt
- Direct Mail Merchant
E
- E shop
- E-Commerce
- E-Goods
- eBusiness
- ECML
- EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
- EFT
- Electronic Goods
- Email Marketing
F
- Face-to-Face
- FDC - First Data Corporation
- Forum
G
- Gambling Merchant Accounts
G (continued)
- Gateway
- Google Analytics
H
- High Risk Processing Accounts
- Highly Suspect Merchant
I
- Interchange
- Issuing Bank
K
- Keyword Search
M
- MasterCard
- Merchant Accounts
- Merchant ID
- Merchant Processor
- MFA - Made For AdSense
N
- Netcheque
O
- Online Processing
- Online Retailer
- Online Shopping
P
- Payment Gateway
- PayPal
- PCI Compliance
- PPC - Pay Per Click
- PSA - Public Service Ads
R
- Refund Fee
- Refund Transaction
S
- Search Engine Optimization
- Secure Server
- Security Certificate
- Shopping Cart
- SSL - Secure Socket Layer
T
- Transaction Fee
U
- Unique Visitor
V
- Value Added Reseller (VAR)
- Vendor
- Visa Debit
- Visa Electron
W
- Web Analytics
- Web Host
- Wugging
Z
- Zen Cart






