Cannabis equipment credit card processing
If your business sells industrial hemp and cannabis seeds or equipment online, Tower Payments makes credit card processing secure and affordable.
Over the years, we’ve seen a definite increase in online merchant account demand from cannabis-oriented production, growing, and processing companies. While this demand increase is a positive sign that the cannabis industry is still growing, it often faces some lingering payment challenges.
We solve this problem by offering honest, affordable credit card processing for cannabis seed and equipment e-commerce site owners, regardless of size.
We’re incredibly familiar with pairing both cannabis equipment merchant accounts and payment gateways with shopping carts, e-commerce software, and platforms you can use to sell your wide range of products effectively.
What does high-risk processing mean for cannabis seed and equipment companies?
If you sell cannabis seeds, hemp growing supplies, cannabis hydroponics, hemp processing equipment, or environmental products like grow lights and climate controls on your website, you’re in a high-risk business category. Effectively, this means you need to take extra precautions when it comes to finding payment gateways and merchant service providers.
Can cannabis seed websites use standard payment processors like Stripe or PayPal?
Unfortunately, mainstream payment facilitators such as PayPal, Stripe, Square, Wix Payments, WooPayments, and Shopify Payments typically won’t support cannabis seed retailers—even when selling legal, Farm-Bill-compliant seeds.
While it’s worth reviewing each processor’s current policies yourself, our years of experience helping cannabis seed businesses tell a consistent story: these payment processors maintain strict prohibited business guidelines that generally exclude cannabis-related commerce, regardless of legality.
Here’s the critical risk: even if you somehow get approved initially, cannabis seed merchants using these platforms often face sudden account terminations and frozen funds without warning. Imagine building your entire business around a payment processor, only to have your revenue stream cut off overnight—along with thousands of dollars in held deposits. For cannabis seed retailers already navigating a complex regulatory landscape, losing payment processing capabilities can be devastating to operations and customer trust.
That’s precisely why specialized high-risk merchant services exist—to provide stable, long-term payment processing for legitimate businesses that mainstream providers won’t touch.
Do PayPal and Stripe allow cannabis equipment sites?
No, in general, payment aggregator services like Stripe, Shopify Payments, Square, or PayPal are unlikely to be a processing solution for a cannabis equipment business.
Of course, we encourage you to do your research before deciding against any payment service. However, our experience shows that payment facilitators like PayPal and Stripe aren’t ideal fits due to fair use policies and prohibited business lists.
Even if you set up an account with PayPal or Stripe, there is a real likelihood that you may experience frozen deposits or a shut-down account. This can result in your ability to process credit cards for your cannabis related products disappearing before your eyes. This is far from an ideal situation for any business, especially one in an industry where finding payment processing is already challenging.
Fair, affordable credit card processing for your cannabis seed or equipment business
Don’t put the ability to process credit cards online for your cannabis seeds or equipment at risk. You need consistent cash flow to thrive, so it’s crucial to use cannabis-friendly merchant accounts and payment gateways.
Our clients have been thrilled with the high-risk credit card processing solutions we provide. Many find that they pay much less for processing when using our merchant services. To find out more or to learn what we can do for your business, contact us here.
Start your cannabis supply website off right by choosing the best site builder for the job
When an e-commerce site owner is starting their business, it’s easy to run into hurdles that seem impossible to overcome. One hurdle is that it often seems impossible to use big brand site-builders, like Shopify, Wix, Webflow, or WooCommerce, when selling high-risk products like cannabis equipment.
However, with the right credit card processing setup, you’ll be able to sell a whole range of cannabis related products, including:
- Cannabis seeds
- Nutrient solutions
- Grow tents
- Additives
- Conveyors
- Solvent recovery systems
- Chilling equipment
- Wiped film evaporators
- Industrial trimmers
Due to our extensive experience providing credit card processing for a wide range of high-risk businesses, we’re also very familiar with integrating our services with a range of big-name e-commerce software. For instance, we often provide processing to high-risk Shopify businesses, as well as the hundreds of WooCommerce high-risk site owners who already use our payment services.
For new entrepreneurs in the cannabis equipment or seed industry, it can be easy to let the credit card processing side of the business slide a little. Even experienced business owners may end up settling for high rates and poor service once their website is up and running.
Credit card processing for cannabis equipment and seeds
You don’t have to settle for just any processor that allows you to accept credit and debit cards. You can, and should, expect a high level of service and stability.
At Tower Payments, we pride ourselves on our red-carpet service. Our clients can get a hold of a real person when they need us – not when it suits us. Also, we provide clear, up-front terms with our affordable, easily integrated, online cannabis seed and equipment credit card processing.
Affordable credit card processing for your cannabis equipment and seed website
We specialize in efficiently and effectively helping high-risk businesses like yours process credit card payments online. We provide an affordable, straightforward credit card acceptance solution for cannabis seed and hemp equipment websites. Looking for Stripe, Square, and PayPal alternatives? Then we can set you up quickly.
Tower Payments will help you meet the growing demand for testers and meters, HP buckers, GC buckers, seed lots, supplies, and all the other cannabis products your web-store sells. With the correct high-risk merchant account and cannabis-friendly payment gateway, we’ll make sure you can easily handle high-volume seed and equipment sales today.
We look forward to helping your equipment and seed business with upfront rates, one-on-one service, and a smile! Fill out the short form below to get started!