And increasingly, these services include more than just the ability to post a Web site and accept transactions.

Visa and MasterCard reply that the retailers are attacking a fundamental cost of accepting electronic transactions.

Over the last five years, many American banks that issue credit cards have apparently slowed the industry's growth by refusing to accept transactions processed by Internet casinos.

Many retailers lack the small terminals needed to accept transactions that allow customers to type in their PIN's instead of providing a signature.

For obvious reasons, many merchants take steps to avoid chargebacks-such as not accepting suspicious transactions.

They will use this website to accept transactions from participants in the scheme.

ID cards are accepted financial transactions, but apart from that and to cross the frontier with Spain, they are not in common use.

As vendors accepting fraudulent transactions are 'fined' by the credit card companies, this is actually a way of taking money from charities.

CyberSource also offers industry risk management services for merchants accepting card-not-present transactions.

The switch network is geared toward accepting transactions using other front-end devices, e.g., POS.