Adult sex toy credit card processing and Shopify
The main challenge you may find when setting up a Shopify adult toy website is that it’s not always easy to sell what you want with their recommended credit card processing, Shopify Payments. Luckily, Tower Payments has stable, easily integrated Shopify sex-toy credit card processing options for you.
Of the many website builders and shopping carts you can use for your adult sex toy website, Shopify is one of the most popular – and for a good reason. A Shopify adult toy site is easy to set up, is SEO friendly, has reliable service, and has beautiful templates. What Shopify does not offer is sex-toy credit card processing. That’s where we come in.
Many e-commerce marketers are looking for more lucrative industries, often with less competition, which points them towards a “high-risk” market like adult toys. Often new site owners have no idea that Shopify has restrictions on the types of products it offers its credit card processing for.
When store owners eventually discover Shopify’s prohibited product restrictions, they usually do not know where to look for help. If you are ready to start accepting credit cards online, please click start at the bottom of this page.
What is high-risk, and why does Shopify Payments care?
The term “high-risk” in the e-commerce payment processing industry generally refers to increased regulation, a higher-than-average number of chargebacks, an off-brand industry reputation, or possibly an elevated risk of negative press in that market.
High-risk credit card processing requires a more specific type of merchant account than your standard online payment gateway. Unfortunately, there are so many chargeback claims these days. Still, it’s essential to realize that many of these claims are fraudulent or from people who were “caught making a purchase” and became embarrassed for having purchased an adult sex toy.
Adult toy credit card processing for Shopify is different
For businesses that sell adult sex toys on Shopify, setting up a way to accept credit cards and finding a compatible merchant account with low rates and fair terms can be particularly frustrating. This is because the standard Shopify payment gateway/merchant account prohibits many high-risk sales, possibly because some in the industry associate them with pornography or illicit services.
Signing up for credit card processing without the correct guidance can be particularly dangerous, as many high-risk processors may not finish the final account review for your account for months, and when their loss prevention department discovers an illicit image or other “risk flag” on your adult toy site, they can freeze your accounts.
We know Shopify, and we know high-risk payments
We specialize in connecting Shopify site owners with credit card processing that fits the needs of their specific industry. This way, you know your credit card processing is built to sell what you want it to, and you won’t have to worry about your accounts getting frozen six months down the line because they violated Shopify Payments’ terms and conditions. We can also help you set up your Shopify-compatible adult toy credit card processing within your Shopify admin page.
Shopify and Authorize.Net for adult toys
Not all Authorize.Net accounts allow sex toys, so we take extra care to ensure that the credit card processor we connect to Authorize.Net works with sex toys. Unfortunately, many merchants do an online search and sign up for Authorize.Net without making sure that the processing that connects to Authorize.Net supports their business type. Instead of taking that risk, we will set you up with an adult toy-friendly Authorize.Net account and make sure that the processing it connects to is adult sex toy friendly.
Adult toys are a huge opportunity
It should come as no surprise that “sex” is the most popular keyword on the Internet. Therefore it should also follow that any business in that industry could make a significant amount of money. The issue is that legitimate Shopify sites selling perfectly legal products have to set themselves up correctly to have smooth sales and no problems with their merchant account. We can help companies that fall under many categories in the adult entertainment world, such as adult novelties, adult content member-driven sites, adult books, live cams, movies, lingerie, realistic dolls, and costumes.
Shopify is one of the most popular platforms for a reason, and you should be able to use whichever platform best suits your adult toy business, even if their recommended processors don’t always like working with your particular industry.