An independent guide

This guide began from a plain belief: setting up to take a card online ought to be the calmest part of running a small shop, and too often it is not. The same questions kept coming up — where do I start, what does the screen want, and how do I know it is truly the official site? So we wrote the steady guide we wished we had been handed.

Everything here is written for someone who wants a straight, safe answer. We walk the service and the seller dashboard in the order people meet them, and we repeat, every time, to begin at the official site. This is an independent guide; we are not the company, we give no financial advice, and we hold no real account.