Salesforce Merchant Accounts

Salesforce Merchant Accounts and Payment Processors

You can use Chargent to connect directly to your Payment Gateway, and process payments in Salesforce. The actual payment processing is done via your Merchant Account, which is your account at your Payment Processor (The terms Payment Processor and Merchant Account are often used interchangeably, though they have slightly different meanings).

To begin credit card and ACH transactions through Salesforce with Chargent, you need a merchant account from a payment processor as well as a payment gateway. Some companies bundle the two services together, but they can also be purchased separately. Many merchant accounts can provide you with a different payment gateway account upon request as well.

The Chargent Payment Processing Journey.

Salesforce with Chargent
(Virtual Terminal)

Authorize.net, WordPay, PayPal Payflow Pro logos

Payment Gateway

Payment Processor
(Merchant Account)

Your Bank

Payment Gateway

The gateway is a service running on Internet servers that securely connects the platform where transactions are being initiated (eg. Salesforce with Chargent installed, or an eCommerce web site) to the payment processor. When you process a transaction through Chargent, the credit card info is sent securely through the gateway to the processor.

Payment Gateways fulfill a number of other functions, such as fraud screening tools, address verification, and securely storing and tokenizing sensitive cardholder data. The token returned by your payment gateway is what gets stored in Salesforce, should you need to use it for future transactions.

“We needed to find a platform when our Merchant Account told us we could no longer leverage their admin portal for charging patients. We were able to get Chargent up and running within just a couple of weeks.”

David M, August 2021

Payment Processor

The payment processor hosts the merchant accounts. It is responsible for securely receiving the data sent by the gateway. When it obtains the information needed to process the payment, it begins to handle the transaction and transfer money from the customer to the merchant’s bank account.

Gateways vs. Processors

Explore more on the difference between Payment Gateways and Payment Processors. Check out our blog post and video.

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Salesforce Payments

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Mix and Match Merchant Accounts

Most payment processors can accept connections from multiple payment gateways. This is not always easy to find on their web sites however, since they may prefer that you use their own gateway or a private labeled gateway. A call with your sales rep may produce other options, however.

As an example, if you use Chase Paymentech for your Merchant Account, you can use Chase’s Orbital Payment Gateway, but you can also ask them to give you an account with Authorize.net as your Payment Gateway. Choosing Authorize.net will make it a snap to connect your Chase Merchant Account to Salesforce via Chargent.

Bundled Only

Some merchant accounts provide their service as a bundle, and do not allow the use of different payment gateways. Stripe would be one example of this.

Gateway Only

Some payment gateways do not provide payment processing / merchant accounts, preferring to focus on the payment gateway services. Examples would be:

Authorize.net
CyberSource
PayPal Payflow Pro
USAePay

We’ve listed the merchant account providers who work with each one of these gateway-only Payment Gateways below. These Payment Gateways make it easy to connect your Merchant Account to Salesforce via Chargent, and offer superior gateway services and advanced features in some cases.

Authorize.net Supported Processors / Merchant Accounts

You can use any of these payment processing merchant accounts with Chargent in Salesforce, if you choose Authorize.net as your payment gateway:

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Chase Paymentech – Tampa Processing Platform (USD, CAD)
Elavon (USD)
Fattmerchant
First Data Merchant Services (FDMS)
- First Data Omaha (USD, CAD)
- First Data Nashville (USD, CAD)
Global Payments North America (USD, CAD)
Heartland Payment Systems (USD)
TSYS Acquiring Solutions (USD)
Heritage WorldPay (USD)
Vantiv / WorldPay Core (USD)
NAB EPX (USD)
Many other payment processor resellers will connect via Authorize.net as well

CyberSource Supported Processors / Merchant Accounts

You can use any of these payment processing merchant accounts with Chargent in Salesforce, if you choose CyberSource as your payment gateway.

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AIBMS
American Express Brighton
American Express Direct
Asia-Mideast Processing
Barclays
CCS (CAFIS)
Chase Paymentech Solutions
Citibank
Comercio Latino
CyberSource ACH Service
CyberSource through VisaNet
FDC Compass
FDC Nashville Global
FDMS Nashville
FDMS South
Ingenico ePayments
GPN
HSBC
Litle
LloydsTSB Cardnet
Moneris
Omnipay Direct
OmniPay-Ireland
RBS WorldPay Atlanta
Streamline
SIX
TeleCheck
TSYS Acquiring Solutions

PayPal Payflow Pro Supported Processors / Merchant Accounts

You can use any of these payment processing merchant accounts with Chargent in Salesforce, if you choose PayPal Payflow Pro as your payment gateway:

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American Express Phoenix
EDS Aurora
First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) Nashville
First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) North
First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) South
FDRA
Global Payments Central
Global Payments East
Merchant e-Solutions
Norwest
Nova
Chase Paymentech New Hampshire
Chase Paymentech Tampa
TSYS (Vital)
Wells Fargo

USAePay Supported Processors / Merchant Accounts

You can use any of these payment processing merchant accounts with Chargent in Salesforce, if you choose USAePay as your payment gateway:

For Credit Card Processing, USAePay works with the following networks:

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FDMS (First Data)
TSYS
Paymentech (Chase)
Global
Planet Payment
FDMS North
MeS (Merchant e-Solutions)
Heartland
RBS WorldPay
Vantiv

For ACH Processing USAePay works with the following networks:

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Vericheck
Vericheck Reports
EFT Network
RP Solutions
CheckGateway
Payliance
Paya
ACH Solutions
CrossCheck
TeleDraft
ReliaFund
Actum Processing

Chargent has helped streamline our recurring payments. Before we could only automate monthly payments. Now we can automate, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and yearly. We can also automate outreach for declined payments.

Sarah R, September 2022

The Chargent product has streamlined our process for credit cards. Our customers and sales team find it easy to tokenize our credit card payments. Any questions are answered quickly by the customer support team. Chargent was the right partner for my company.

Maria C, October, 2020

Chargent is very useful, and is able to make complicated integrations much more straightforward. In just a few minutes, the setup wizard is able to connect you to a variety of different gateways to test or process live transactions. There’s also good documentation to walk you through the specifics of integrating with a particular gateway. The few complications I’ve run into have been handled by a capable and friendly support team.

James M, July 2022

The Support Team at Chargent was very helpful and diligent in supporting our needs and transition to Chargent. Responses were on time and punctual on a case by case basis and the support team is a pleasure to work with!

John D., March, 2022

I am the Salesforce Admin for our company. We have a very delicate environment and way too much customization. Our business required a solution that is not out of the box Chargent. The support and quick response I have received is above and beyond what is expected.

Kent B, August, 2021

I am very pleased with the support I receive for Chargent. I have implemented it for several clients and I always have questions regarding each use case. The support team is very knowledgeable and helpful!

Salesforce Consultant, March, 2019

Chargent is incredible! It makes getting payment so much easier when you can send a link, and the client can click on it and process payment on their own time.

Camille T, January 2023

We signed up for the add-on package for the Automated Payments and the same day we signed up we had Nick schedule a meeting with us to get started. He was not only helpful for the initial set up, but he would send helpful training videos for the rest of the team. Usually when you sign up for something new it takes a long time to train everyone and get it set up. I am happy to say that was not the case for us.

Tonya B, November 2022

With Robert’s help my client was able to convert sales to cash and utilize partial payment and recurring payment settings. With Chargent and DBSync integrations, my client is able to integrate QuickBooks Enterprise to record invoices, payments and estimates for progress billing. I highly recommend this integration.

Salesforce Consultant, June, 2019

We needed to streamline our Auth.Net connection for our members credit card transactions so that they are viewable and management in SF. Chargent was the perfect application for this to occur. It is very user friendly and is a native SF application, which is also a huge plus.

Kevin K, August 2022

Great integrated solution for capturing payments — and great support! This solution has made it so much easier for our org to track payments and make sure they are tethered to the original deal, and it makes the capturing of payments so quick and seamless for our customers. Also, the support is great! Quick response times and relentless problem solving on the part of the support team!

Katie K., April, 2022

As someone who has a technical background but is relatively new to working in Salesforce, I have been very impressed with the Chargent product for Salesforce. I was first impressed by the very comprehensive guides and online documentation available. Subsequently, in working to update and upgrade our Chargent implementation, our organization has worked with three different support reps over the past year and each one has been super friendly, very helpful, and very technically proficient. A great example of how to do technical support the right way!

David M., January, 2022

Chargent’s application has provided us the ability to automate a payment process which normally took a person 15 minutes to process, down to less than a minute with the Chargent integration. Handling payments in the past will no longer haunt us since we are now PCI compliant, we know we can rest our client’s minds by letting them know their data is secure.

Nick S, March, 2020

We needed to streamline our Auth.Net connection for our members credit card transactions so that they are viewable and management in SF. Chargent was the perfect application for this to occur. It is very user friendly and is a native SF application, which is also a huge plus. Highly recommend this application!

Kevin K., August, 2022

Chargent makes automating our monthly donor payments a snap. Top-notch, extremely responsive service. Thanks!

Amy K, October, 2021

We are using Chargent for handling payment processing. On one click of “Send Pay Request” we can send an email and customer can pay easily just with a link. Customer support team is quick in response and ready to help. I like how Chargent stay ahead and helps update Chargent app according to Salesforce new releases.

Deepika N, June, 2020

When our incompetent SF implementation partner dropped the ball, Chargent support was able to login to our account, identify the issue, and have it resolved in less than 24 hours so we had virtually no downtime in processing payments. Excellent job!

Jon A, November, 2021

Chargent is a great payment processing solution! We’ve been using the app for a little over a year now and our end users love the simple ability to send payment links to clients. As an admin, it’s easy for me to add gateways when we open new locations.

Brea G, August, 2021

We are successfully tokenizing credit cards, sending payment links, and processing credit cards for multiple payment gateways and companies. Setup was easy and tech support was very responsive when needed. Chargent was exactly what our company needed to capture payments via Salesforce. Thanks to the flexibility and security features of Chargent, we have been able to reduce our credit card processing fees by close to 2%.

James C, September, 2020

I implemented Chargent for an end customer because of the limitations on the current app that they were using. The Chargent APIs are super simple, the support staff was great and very responsive. We found a great partner in Chargent. The simplicity in setting up multiple gateways and recurring billing configuration options are second to none if you want the go by clicks not code mantra.

Swapnil M, July, 2020

We have been using devs to handle our connections between FormAssembly, Chargent and Salesforce. I was asked to change our payment methods and was having issues with it being charged to the wrong gateway. Nick and I had a web meeting in which he was able to point out the issue of a different process builder that was changing gateways from the one I thought was. Even though this issue was on our Salesforce end, he was more than willing to help and explain things to me.

Tim P, November 2022

We have received overwhelming support from Robert Ruelas on the Chargent/Accounting Seed integration. Robert stayed with us on our problem until resolved. We don’t find this level of support frequently and would recommend the Chargent App for any organization that handles credit cards when you are using Salesforce and/or Accounting Seed.

Mike M, February, 2020

I’m a SF Admin recently charged with preparing for the June 20′ release. I am extremely grateful for the support team at Chargent. I am very impressed with the thoroughness of monitoring their product with SF and the proactive approach to keeping ahead of the releases. Thank you Chargent!

Andrew K, May, 2020

Chargent works really well and can be configured lots of different ways to fit your business needs. I’ve implemented the product on a few different projects with a variety of requirements and the package is very smooth. The Chargent Support team is also one of the best I’ve ever worked with.

William S, December, 2021

My client was in search of a Credit Card Chip Reader solution as they were migrating off of old card swipers and their current payment product. In doing research, Chargent Terminal seemed to be a great fit. The whole process of implementation from cradle to grave was seamless and simple. My clients said that Chargent is far more intuitive and has made their lives in processing payments extremely simple.

Arnold C, July, 2020

BEST IN CLASS!! Chargent was a game changer for us. It has allowed a payment automation process for our sales team that we could not live without. The team is quick to respond and eager to help. I could not ask for a better partner.

John D., May, 2022

Excellent for all types of payments. We’ve been running recurring and one time billing through Chargent for at least the last five years. They have frequent updates to keep us compliant and there are virtually never any issues with payments. Even better is their support team.

Nick F, October, 2020

This is a great app that helps simplify receiving payments from most popular payment gateways and recording everything in Salesforce. I’m a consultant and set this up for a client who had a very custom requirement. Chargent support was very helpful in guiding me on the configuration.

Kaivalya K, July, 2020

Seamless app for integrating our donations into our Salesforce platform. Excellent and responsive customer service.

Kate G, February 2023

We use Chargent to manage all of our sustaining memberships and for sending out payment requests. Makes it so much easier for people to pay their invoices. It is also such an easy tool to get set up and running!

Bonnie S, April, 2020

Chargent has simplified our billing needs substantially. We are able to charge hundreds of customers with ease while receiving timely support by the Chargent team whenever it is needed. Very satisfied!

Powell N, November, 2020

I’m a consultant in the Entertainment space and my clients are always looking for a quick/easy way to leverage their existing payment processing provider within Salesforce. I recommend Chargent every single time. The solution is flexible and allows for a great deal of customization.

Charles O, May, 2021

We love that Chargent is entirely native to Salesforce and allows for a lot of customizations, such as complete control over email templates, invoices, receipts, etc. It makes it much easier in a heavily regulated field, Financial Services. The support quality alone is enough for me to fully endorse this company.

Financial Services, July, 2020

We came across Chargent during our Salesforce implementation. We were having lots of issues with online payments. Chargent solved all our problems in an instance. Highly recommend this product for higher education institutes, especially TargetX CRM users.

Ahmet D, April, 2021