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Authorize.net Overview

What is Authorize.net?

🏆Voted the Best Payment Gateway for Fraud Prevention by Forbes! Authorize.net has been helping merchants and small businesses accept payments anytime, anywhere since 1996. We offer you everything you need to sell more, sell faster, and sell securely.

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An Authorize.net Payment Gateway account allows you to accept credit cards and electronic checks from websites and deposit funds automatically into your merchant bank account. Our solutions are designed to save time and money for small- to medium-sized businesses.


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Visa
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Foster City, California, United States
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Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than
00 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Learn more at Visa.com.


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Alex D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Authorize.net is completely user friendly and the interface is extremely easy to navigate."
The most helpful featue of Authorize.net is the ability to solve any issues a customer is currently having when looking up their order or if they h...
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Sarah P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Efficient credit card processor"
They consistently run and process monthly credit card payments. I like that you can manually set up a subscription if needed.
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Jeffrey K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great payment processor for your ecommerce website."
Authorize.net syncs very well with our Wordpress and Woocommerce website allowing us to process credit card transactions in a simple and easy manor.
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Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

The API widget installed easy enough we've had zero issues and there's a portal for manual transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

The portal doesn't keep repeat users info for faster processing which is probrably for security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

Its simple and painless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

ECommerce sales and manually processing transactions is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

I have only used authorize.net and PayPal for processing credit card payments, so I don 't have much to compare to. However, I like the fact that with authorize.net we are able to set up fraud detection to make sure certain parameters are flagged for fraud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

I dislike that some payments have to be manually transferred to our client's accounts. On occasion, the funds will not transfer and our clients will ask where their money is. We will then have to look up the transaction and manually process the deposit into their account. This can be more work for us, but also an inconvenience to our clients. If this happens outside of our normal business hours, they must wait for the next business day to make a purchase. This can negatively affect the client as well as our sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

This is a great utility if you are looking for this type of service. We only used PayPal's guest checkout for credit card payments, so we needed such services and we ended up getting lucky picking authorize. net. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the problem of accepting credit card payments. We only use PayPal for most of our deposits, but clients wanted another option for credit cards. Authorize.net solved our problem of only have one payment processor. We have realized an increase in client happiness as they now have another option to deposit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sarah H.
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Retail
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

It is incredibly easy to use and return money to cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

It doesn't line up to my software. the drawer s close at different times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

its how we collect all our money via credit/debit cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

This came as a recommendation and we couldn't be happier. the online widget was easy to implement and offline charges are easy as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

This is a simple solution there have been no downside aside from the bill. lolz Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

I don't know howto make it clearer. this transaction processor has been on point for the last few years. Even when switching processing protocols they never skipped a beat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We process offsite transactions as well as implement the transaction widget for online Credit Card processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KR
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

We had a couple issues with, address verification. I got on the phone with them and they got it taken care of quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

Some of the reports are different to get to and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

It plugs in easy with our ERP system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carl H.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

We have had nothing but problems with Authorize.net Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

We’ve used authorize.net for handling payments and subscriptions for our software company since 2009. In October 2017 I turned on their account updater feature which updates expiring credit cards with the new card number or expiration number so the subscription stay active. Instead of updating active subscriptions like is supposed to happen, Authorize.net re-activated cancelled subscriptions. Their mistake increased our chargeback rate by 500% in one month. Our chargeback rate skyrocketed so high our merchant account was shut down and now we cannot get another merchant account to process the subscriptions because the previous merchant account’s chargeback rate was so high. Authorize.net told me they have no way to reverse their mistake. Each card thats updated costs 25 cents, when I requested a refund for the fees Authorize.net denied my request.

Even one of Authorize.net’s customer support people stated this was a violation of PCI compliance rules. So it doesn’t make sense they want to charge us for something they agree is against processing rules and also against the law

On November 7, 2017 we were charged $5,385.90 for this feature.

When I saw how high our chargeback went and we started getting complaints about customers subscriptions being reactivated and charged after they were canceled I turned off the account updater feature on November 27. Unfortunately Authorize.net charged us again on December 4 for this feature that was turned off and updated even more cancelled subscriptions. Below are the charges they placed on December 4, after I cancelled the account updater feature on November 27:

$1,111.73

I emailed authorize.net on December 4, 2016 asking for a refund. On December 6 I received a response that did not answer my question. On December 6 I asked for a supervisor, the supervisor called Melissa responded on December 7 and stated they are aware of the problem with Authorize.net updating canceled subscriptions but won’t fix it or refund our fees.

Their error, that they claim they know about, is illegal and a violation of Visa/Mastercard rules. You cannot reactivate customers subscriptions after they cancel them, that is not legal to charge customers when they canceled their subscription and don’t authorize the charge. Their mistake cost us six figures in losses, so the very least they can do is reverse the fees they charged us for their mistake.

Authorize.net has a terms and conditions that are required to authorize before turning on the feature, but nowhere in their terms do they state they will reactivate cancelled subscriptions, so I never agreed for this to happen as its not legal.

I disputed the $6,497.63 in charges for the account updater feature with my credit card company and we won our dispute.

I filed a complaint with Mastercard and they opened an investigation.

I filed a complaint with the Utah Attorney General and they agreed its illegal, but they only investigate claims filed by consumers, not by businesses, so they did not open an investigation for that reason alone.

After we won our credit card dispute, Authorize.net sent our account to a collection agency. Now the collection agency is emailing our companies employees stating they are going to put the matter on consumer and business credit reports and want us to pay $6,497.63 in charges for something that Authorize.net, the Utah Attorney General and Mastercard all agree are illegal charges. The collection agency hasn’t responded to our disputes regarding their alleged debt claims and Authorize.net only tells me to contact the collection agency

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Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

stay away Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

none Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj Kumar S.
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Executive Human Resources
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

The best thing I like about using Authorized.net is the ability to create recurring billings for the transactions taking place on the gateway makes it more unique and even the users love this feature as they don't need to give their card details every time when the renewal takes place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

We can generate the transaction report only for upto 90 days (3 months), if we need the transaction data for the last 1 year then we need to generate the data every quarter and then merge it to one file which is a very big restriction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

Authorized.net is very much suitable for small business, medium scale business and even for the large business type. You will never regret the decision of moving to authorized.net from your existing gateway as you can definitely feel the difference it brings to your business. Even the pricing is very less when compared to their competitors, it is worth paying every penny for the service it offers. Don't believe me use it and then you will tell others about this product for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using the Authorized.net as our primary payment gateway to receive payments from the users for our business. The features it provides at the cost we pay is very excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

Easy API widget for the Website got us up and running fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

They do not store data for repeat charges. You have to fill it in every time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We take credit Card payments through the website now. Its extremely convenient for us and our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

Authorize.net connects with Form Assembly and Salesforce really well. We use Authorize.net on a daily basis to collect deposits and payments from volunteers. Searching for transactions is user-friendly and easy to do based on the search options. The invoice function is also really handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

The downloadable reports of transactions is terrible, the formatting is not user friendly and does not convert to excel. The website for merchants is very dated and has a TON of text on it. It took me a while to learn how to navigate the website. I enjoy the invoice function, but I do wish there was a way to business's to personalize/brand it. It does not work with international credit/debit cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to keep volunteer's information more confidential. Before, many volunteers were filling out a paper form with their credit card info and sending it to the office. Several others were having to call in and pay over the phone. We have stream lined our payment process which is a huge benefit for us and our volunteers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RK
Software Developer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Authorize.net?

The best payment gateway to handle the customer needs and it helps in creating financial values to the company.

Also, the payment gateway is useful for the customers in making credit card transactions which in turn helps us in creating recurring profiles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Authorize.net?

We will not be able to generate reports from Authorized.net for the last 6 months, we can generate only the last 90 days transaction at once.

This restriction should be lifted for easy use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Authorize.net:

if you want a tool that can satisfy the payment needs of your company then authorized.net is recommended. This gateway helps a lot in generating payments from the users and third party integration is possible. Also the tools provides recurring billing option which is very convenient to avoid manual charging of user cards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Authorize.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Authorized.net as our primary payment gateway to get funds for the purchases made through our website and app. Also, this gateway provides easy of use and it helps in generating payments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.