What is the difference between credit card primary gateway and credit card secondary gateway?

A secondary gateway is just that, a backup to your primary credit card gateway. A lot of the larger online stores have 2 in case of outages on the primary. Being unable to accept credit cards for even a short period of time for large can lead to thousands of dollars lost to a company.

2 of the most common are Authorize.net (http://www.usamerchantaccounts.net) and Linkpoint (http://www.firstdata.com)

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