Payment Processing
Established Payment Gateway
Authorize.net
A long-standing card payment service, backed by Visa, that many businesses already have an account with.
- Category
- Payment Processing
- Stack role
- Integration
- Tool type
- Service
- Best suited for
- Established Merchant Accounts
- Hosting model
- Cloud-Hosted
- Software price
- 2.9% + 30¢ / month
- First released
- 1996
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What is Authorize.net?
Authorize.net, in plain English.
Authorize.net is a payment gateway, the service that connects a website's checkout to the banks that approve a card payment. It handles online checkout with cards, bank transfers called eChecks, and digital wallets, along with phone orders, invoices and recurring billing.
It is one of the older names in online payments, and it says its features are backed by Visa. That history is why many established businesses already have an account, and why a lot of store software, including Magento, WooCommerce and Paymattic, can connect to it.
For a new project, we usually compare it against Stripe, which is easier to build into custom applications. Authorize.net makes the most sense when a business is already set up with it and wants to keep its existing account, or when its bank or accounting setup depends on it.
In our stack
Why we use Authorize.net.
Authorize.net makes sense for businesses that already have an account and want a store or form connected to it, rather than moving to a new payment provider. We keep it in our toolbox for exactly that.
Keep Your Account
If you already use it, we can connect your new site without switching providers.
Cards and eChecks
Customers can pay by card or directly from a bank account.
Fraud Filtering Included
Built-in checks help catch suspicious orders before they cost you.
Related tools
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