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Service activation

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Activating the Payments service is essential if you want to accept real credit and debit cards as payment for your goods or services. By enabling the Payments service, your account gains the ability to securely capture and process customer payment information.

This means that when a customer makes a purchase, their credit or debit card details are transmitted through our secure servers and verified by the issuing bank. Once the payment is authorized, the funds are transferred to your account, allowing you to complete the transaction.

Here’s what activating the Payments service enables:

  • Accept payments from customers using major credit and debit cards. This allows you to offer a wider range of payment options and potentially increase your sales.
  • Process payments securely. Our platform uses industry-standard security protocols to protect your customers’ financial information.
  • Manage your transactions easily. You’ll be able to view transaction history, track payments, and manage refunds directly within your account.

Warning

We cannot guarantee that your merchant account will be approved to use 4Geeks Payments.

There are a number of factors that we consider when reviewing merchant accounts, including the merchant’s business history, the type of products or services that they sell, and the merchant’s credit history. We also consider the merchant’s location and the payment methods that they wish to accept.

We do our best to approve merchant accounts that meet our requirements, but we cannot guarantee that your account will be approved at this time.

To successfully activate the Payments feature, it must be supported by a legal figure according to your country, which indicates to us that such trade has permissions from your country to do business.

Once activated, there may be associated fees for processing payments.

We currently support any of the following legal figures:

  • company / legal entity
  • individual / natural person
  • non-profit entity
  • government entity (U.S. only)

We will ask you extra specific questions about your business about your business to ensure we can support your operation. Our our legal team may ask you for additional information to validate your identity, veracity of information, business activity or other administrative information.

To activate the Payments service you must:

1. Login with your 4Geeks account.

Login screen

2. Click on Settings -> Account Activation.

Settings

3. Select your company country to start verification.

Select the country where your company is based in from the dropdown list to continue with the account activation request. This information helps ensure your account is configured correctly based on your region.

Settings

Confirm your selected country and provide all business or personal required information, bank account to receive payouts, phone verification and more. Here we will verify you are the legal representative for your business.

Requirements vary on multiple factors like your business role, legal entity and many others.

Warning

Once confirmed you can’t changed the company country.

In most cases we request the following legal information from you:

Individuals Legal entity
Identity card Identity document of the legal representative
Tax ID number

Once verificafion process is completed, you will receive an email confirmation. Check spam box if necessary. At the same time, new production API Key is generated (copy this from Settings -> API Keys) and ready to use.

Settings

Note

We do our best to review your application as quickly as possible (instantly in most cases) however, for some regions this review and validation process can take 2-5 days once all the correct documents have been received.