What Is a High-Risk Merchant Account?
A payment processor names a High-Risk Merchant Account if they've decided your business account is at higher risk for chargebacks, fraud, or a high volume of profits. There are many reasons this could be the case since you are another merchant who hasn't processed payments previously or because your industry is viewed as high-risk and has a high probability of fraud. A High-Risk Merchant account pays higher processing expenses to represent this risk. Reasons a Merchant May Be Considered High-Risk There are many reasons a payment processing stage might describe you as high-risk, and keeping in mind that some might appear glaringly evident, others are more nuanced. Each provider has an alternate arrangement of measures for High-Risk Merchant accounts, however, by and large, here is what you can expect might be named high-risk: High transaction volume. Merchants might be viewed as high-risk if they have a high volume of exchanges or have a high normal exchange rate. If a mercha...