Merchant Accounts For Survivalist & Tactical Gear

Merchant Accounts For Survivalist & Tactical Gear

An Overview

SoarPay Is The #1 Choice For Camping, Survivalist & Tactical Gear Merchant Services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are common questions specific to survivalist, tactical and outdoors industry merchant accounts:

  • What types of survivalist, tactical and outdoors industry businesses do you accept?

    Soar Payments accepts a wide range of businesses within the broader survivalist & outdoors retailing industry. These include retailers in the camping, survivalist, prepping supplies, tactical gear, and outdoors industries (eCommerce and subscription-based).

    To be approved for a merchant account, merchants must abide by all applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations. Additionally, your business must be located, and operate, within the United States of America. The business owner must also be a US citizen or have an appropriate work visa.

    If your business accepts eCommerce payments, underwriting will require the following before approval:

    1. A secure website with an SSL certificate (*minimum of 128 bit encryption, 1024 bit exchange, and HTTPS). Optional vendors include Comodo and GoDaddy.
    2. Visible Visa, MasterCard, Discover & AmEx logos on your checkout page.
    3. Full descriptions of products or service plans sold.
    4. A functional shopping cart or checkout page.
  • My survivalist / tactical / outdoors retailing business uses a hosted shopping cart platform. Will a Soar Payments merchant account integrate with my eCommerce software?

    Because Soar Payments works with most major payment gateways (including Authorize.net, USAePay and NMI), our merchant accounts integrate with most popular eCommerce platforms used by businesses in the outdoors retailing industry, including: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Volusion, and similar shopping cart software platforms.

  • What types of outdoors retailing merchant accounts does Soar Payments offer?

    Soar Payments offers a full-spectrum of merchant services to outdoors retailing industry companies. These include:

    • Retail: A retail merchant account enables businesses to accept face-to-face debit and credit card payments via a traditional credit card machine or point of sale system.
    • Mobile: A mobile merchant account enables your business to accept face-to-face credit and debit card payments via a swiper (included with each account) that plugs into your mobile phone or iPad.
    • Virtual Terminal: Also called a payment gateway merchant account, a virtual terminal enables businesses to accept payments over the phone, via mail, or typed into a computer (without needing other equipment).
    • eCommerce: An eCommerce merchant account allows you to accept credit card payments via your website’s online shopping cart.

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Accept Retail, Mobile, Virtual Terminal or eCommerce Payments

Retail Payments

Retail businesses can choose from a traditional credit card terminal, wireless, or point of sale system. Whatever you choose, our retail merchant accounts will have you accepting credit and debit cards faster, and for less.

Mobile Payments

​Want “on the go” mid or high risk credit card processing? Our mobile pay options are for you. Choose between iPad or mobile phone credit card swipers, compatible with both iPhone and Android devices.

Virtual Terminal Payments

Accepting payments over the phone, mail or typed in on your laptop  is easy with our virtual terminal merchant accounts.  No equipment needed. Just log in to your virtual terminal, and type in the customer’s credit card.

eCommerce Payments

Selling online? Our easy to use payment gateways are compatible with, and simply plug in to most major shopping carts. Our mid and high risk merchant accounts are streamlined for eCommerce businesses.

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