how to apply for
actinic payments
Accepting credit card payments is easy with Actinic Payments. To apply for an Actinic Payments account:
- Call Actinic Sales on 0845 129 4800. You will be asked to provide initial details to start the application process.
Please note that you must have a merchant account to complete an application for Actinic Payments. In some cases you will need to get one or more additional merchant accounts particularly if you accepting debit and credit card payments for both ecommerce and telephone or mail order. If there is a problem, Actinic may be able to help.
If you are a start-up business we recommend you use Paypal initially as it may be difficult to get a merchant account until you have a trading history.
The Terms and Conditions of your service agreement with Actinic are available here.
- Login to your account using the user details provided by Actinic and enter details to complete the application.
Apart from the usual company and contact information, you must provide details of
- your acquiring bank
- merchant account(s)
- type of payments taken (MOTO and/or Internet/ecommerce)
- details of your web site and what you will be selling
- anticipated sales volumes
- payment card types that you wish to accept
- the currency you will accept
Please note you must not register payment types, card types or currencies that your acquiring bank merchant number cannot take.
- Once completed the application will be automatically processed and provisioned by the banking system.
Typically, this takes around 3 working days. If there is a problem with the information supplied, we will contact you for clarification.
You will receive an email with all the details you need in order to configure your Actinic product to work with the credit card payments service.
