{"id":3508,"date":"2016-08-19T13:40:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:09:20","slug":"merchant-aggregator-vs-merchant-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/merchant-aggregator-vs-merchant-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchant Aggregator VS Merchant Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merchant aggregator is an entity that can run many transactions through a single merchant account, an opposite to the traditional account since you&#8217;re the sole owner.<\/p>\n<p>Preferred for a smaller business because its not intended as a long term scalable solution to accepting payments.<\/p>\n<p>For businesses that want to expand their processing needs, traditional merchant account will outgrow an aggregator, since the goal is for a business to grow, but it will always come to what&#8217;s best for individual business.<\/p>\n<p>While you have the pros of quick application process and instant approval there are a lot of cons to check before getting an aggregator account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS of an aggregator account:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CUSTOMER SERVICE <\/strong>\u2013 aggregators are hard to get hold of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEES <\/strong>\u2013 fixed fees .<\/p>\n<p><strong>FREQUENT HOLDS and DELAY OF FUNDS \u2013 <\/strong>aggregators hold funds 24-48 hours before depositing, while longer holds occur 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOWER LIMITS \u2013 <\/strong>processing limits lower, annual limit of $100k.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS of a Traditional Account:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CUSTOMER SERVICE<\/strong> &#8211; &nbsp;24\/7 technical support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUNDS<\/strong> &#8211; next day funding, no frequent account holds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEES<\/strong> \u2013 tailored to your business needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIMITS<\/strong> &#8211; varies by financial strength and business<\/p>\n<p>For more information in setting up an account with NTC give us a call at 888-996-2273 or go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/\">www.nationaltransaction.com &nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merchant aggregator is an entity that can run many transactions through a single merchant account, an opposite to the traditional<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/merchant-aggregator-vs-merchant-account\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19],"tags":[82,429,25,2968,49,87],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-merchant-services-account","tag-fees","tag-funds","tag-merchant-account-2","tag-merchant-aggregator","tag-payments","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}