Clicking through our Reseller link simply tells Authorize.Net to pay us a commission for referring you to them, whereas we get nothing from Authorize.Net if you go directly to their site to enroll, so of course we'd prefer that you follow our link, but that's really the only difference. :^)



A 'merchant account' is just a special type of bank account that allows you to accept credit card payments directly into that account. This is unrelated to our being a Reseller and Partner with Authorize.Net, and unrelated to any other accounts you may maintain with other services for other reasons, such as a PayPal account or your E-junkie account. Your choice of merchant account provider is your choice; as long as they can work with Authorize.Net, it's entirely up to you.



You should not require your own secure server, nor an SSL certificate for your domain, nor PCI compliance, because you are using E-junkie as a "hosted" e-commerce provider which is already secure and PCI compliant, and we can provide our most recent PCI compliance report upon request via email. You would only need your own secure server, SSL encryption certificate and PCI compliance auditing if you were using "licensed" e-commerce software that gets installed on your own server to run there on its own, which is not the case with E-junkie.



While the buyer is using our cart service to shop for items on your site, the order they build in their cart is completely anonymous, as no personal, financial nor other sensitive data is being exchanged at that point. When the buyer proceeds to checkout to pay with a credit card that will be processed using your Authorize.Net service, they are taken to a secure checkout page that we generate for you on our server, and we handle transmitting their private/financial data to Authorize.Net via a secure channel for you.

If any buyer's card info is being stored, it would be in your account records at Authorize.Net's end; we do not store any card account data at all, and our secure checkout page only provides a place for buyers to enter their card info for us to encrypt and transmit directly to Authorize.Net without retaining a copy at our end.



I'm not quite sure what you mean about SIM, but we are SAAS ("software as a service", similar to in contrast to licensed software that you get a copy of to install yourself), and our service is already pre-integrated with Authorize.Net. We've done all the hard "nerdy work" for you, so all you'd have to do is follow our instructions to provide the information we'd need to link your Authorize.Net account to your E-junkie account, and you're done!



Authorize.Net may offer you a "Virtual Terminal" service that would allow you to take card info over the phone and validate that manually on your computer. This would not involve us at all, so you can consult Authorize.Net help pages or support staff for any questions you may have about that.

That is correct, you will not need your own PCI compliance certificate.



If you are going to add in PayPal Website Payment Pro, all you need to do is follow the steps on this help page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/paypal-partner.htm

You can use any generic credit card logo images available on the Web, e.g.:

1http://www.credit-card-logos.com/1



Security seals are typically only used on the actual secure pages where sensitive data is being requested or transmitted, and they are designed to be "live badges" that the user can click to verify and view more information about the particular security measure represented by the badge, which won't work on other pages. If you're using PayPal Pro, or Authorize.Net with PayPal Standard, it would also be misleading to, say, place a copy of our GeoTrust badge on your site, since buyers who choose to checkout with PayPal would be using PayPal's secure site and would not even be using our GeoTrust-secured card checkout page at all.



The opt-in checkbox on our card checkout page controls whether we add the buyer to your Buyer Group lists for the item(s) they purchased:

1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.updates.htm1



If you were using our Aweber integration, that checkbox would also determine whether we submit the buyer's info for subscription to your Aweber mailing list. We do not have any particular integration method for Vertical Response, but if they can accept PayPal IPN, they may be able to receive our IPN-style generic Integration submissions, but these could not be controlled by the opt-in checkbox:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm

You don't have to use the code they provide; you could just right-click on a logo you like and "Save image as...", then once you've saved it, upload the image to your Web site and add it to your page.



If buyer opts-in, we add their name/email to a Buyer Group list we maintain for each product they ordered. You can view these Buyer Group lists we maintain for you by logging into your Seller Admin and then visiting this link directly:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ej/viewmailing_list.php

(you may want to bookmark that until we can add a link for it in Seller Admin)



The pink highlights in that Mailing List admin indicate buyers who have been removed from your list, either because of a payment refund/reversal, or because you removed them yourself, or because they clicked an opt-out link in a newsletter you'd sent them through our system.



From the Mailing List admin, you can download any list view to a file on your computer, which you can unzip and open in any spreadsheet program such as Excel or (free) Gnumeric. Then you could, say, sort the rows by Status primarily and Date secondarily, so you could pick opted-in buyers (those with Active status) and see who joined your list most recently, so you could add them to your Vertical Response list.

Yes, "Active" status means they are active subscribers to your Buyer Group, so they have opted in to join your list. Note that PayPal provides no way to opt-in/-out, so those buyers are always opted-in by default.



If you wanted to consider using Aweber instead of Vertical Response, you could import your current VR list to Aweber and have us submit new buyers to Aweber automatically, and Aweber would send new subscribers an opt-in link to confirm their wish to subscribe.

It depends on what payment processor you use. If you are using PayPal standard, there is no opt-in box at checkout and buyers are automatically added to your list. But if the buyer went through a different checkout process which included an opt-in box, then they will only be added to your list if they did check that box.

Your buyer list contains both buyers who either used PayPal standard and were opted-in automatically or buyers who used PayPal Pro that did check the opt-in box. Any buyers who went through PayPal Pro's credit card checkout screen that did not check the opt-in box are not included.



If you wish to use the names on your buyer list with Vertical Response it may be best to send everyone on that list an opt-in email to confirm that they do want to receive your newsletter through VR. AWeber does this for any names they receive from us regardless of whether or not the buyer saw an opt-in box during checkout, for example, to ensure there is no one on the list that didn't agree to be there.