4 Sites / 1 PSP /1 Merchant account

[NicolaUK]

I was led to believe Actinic payments would allow this, we've signed up for it today and need to feed 12 sites into one account - CardNet are fine with what we're doing but are you saying Actinic don't allow it?

Bugger.

[Darren B]

Sounds to me like more conflicting information or miss interpretation.

ACTINIC!! Can someone please clarify this situation seems that some are being told you cant do this and obviously the latest post some are being told you can?

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[NicolaUK]

I'm waiting on clarification from them.

[Darren B]

would you post here some the rest of us know

thank you

[cbarling]

OK, here's an attempt to clarify things:

A single Actinic Payments (AP) account can be set up to take both EC and MOTO (mail order) payments. With some banks you need only a single merchant account for this, for some you need one for ecommerce and one for MOTO. Up to two are included in AP.

If more than one person has to access the Actinic Payments Administration area, then there is a one-off charge of £10 to set up each additional logon. If you need more than two merchant accounts, for instance, you want to take Amex and you need another account supported, there's a one-off £10 additional charge per merchant account. These are all one-off charges, so in the scheme of things very minor.

That covers what the additional charges are for, now for the main question, which I understand to be 'can a single Actinic Payments account be used on more than one web site?' I'm afraid that the answer is a resounding maybe. Here's why, and every other PSP will has the same problem with a straight answer for the same reasons, I believe.

Actinic Payments can technically be run on more than one web site with the same account (obviously only for the same company). However, if you have radically different products selling from these sites, the banks will probably want totally separate processing. Also, if you have 3D Secure, each setup officially works only for a single web site, and there are likely to be problems with adding more.

So to summarise, if you have several web sites selling broadly the same things, you should be able to do this with a single Actinic Payments account, but there may be problems in the future with 3D Secure. In this respect, AP is no different from any other PSP.

I hope that this helps.

Chris

[Darren B]

Thank you Chris

Definately does

In summary i see it as - you can use the same account, but someone like streamline may object now or in the future, but AP can do it, If it becomes a problem then you will need a new AP account to satisfy the company in these cases.

MOTO and ecommerce will support both depending on the requirements for seperate merchant numbers by the bank, AP will work with one or two numbers as standard.

Thanks for taking the time to reply
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[NicolaUK]

So to summarise, if you have several web sites selling broadly the same things, you should be able to do this with a single Actinic Payments account, but there may be problems in the future with 3D Secure. In this respect, AP is no different from any other PSP.

And to echo this I've since spoken to Mark in sales and been given the same info - the products I sell are broadly the same so shouldn't be a problem

[johnshackleton]

customising pages for additional websites

I have 3 websites all sharing the same merchant no. and actinic payment account.

Am I correct in saying it is possible to customise the payment pages for all 3 sites? i.e. 3 different ekashu style sheets. All 3 sites have their own SSL.

My first site is working fine. But I've had mixed results with my 2nd site. The actual payment has gone through okay but payment pages still seems to be using the colours/font etc. from the first site.

I've re-referenced everything in Act_OCCActPayTemplate.html , Act_ActPayError, Act_ActPayOK & ekashu.css

Has anyone successfully done this?

Thanks in advance,

[johnshackleton]

I have 3 websites all sharing the same merchant no. and actinic payment account.

Am I correct in saying it is possible to customise the payment pages for all 3 sites? i.e. 3 different ekashu style sheets. All 3 sites have their own SSL.

Solved it. The problems yesterday must have affected my testing.