Merchant Accounts For Skin & Haircare Products

An Overview

Skin & Haircare Credit Card Processing

Why We Proudly Accept Hair And Skin Care Business As Merchants (Even When Many Processors Don’t)

Many credit card processors do not accept skin and haircare businesses as clients, for several reasons. The first, is that many online retailers of skin and haircare products use recurring billing to charge their clients. This billing method, by its very nature, is more susceptible to friendly fraud chargebacks. The second, is that a few skin and haircare product online retailers have made claims about their products effectiveness that are not based in fact, which has affected the entire industries reputation. And finally, many skin and haircare products that are retailed online use third party manufacturers and fulfillers. Because orders and fulfillment being separated can lead to increased shipping delays and customer chargebacks, this divided business model is considered higher risk. For these three reasons, many credit card processors simply decline to work with skin and haircare product retailers and manufacturers entirely.

Soar Payments, by contrast, has been proud to serve the skin and haircare industry since our company’s inception. Our extensive relationships with credit card processors and sponsor banks who specialize in underwriting businesses perceived as “high risk” enables us to confidently support these businesses (including cosmetics, hair and skin care businesses). Moreover, our fully integrated chargeback and fraud prevention solutions, uniquely position Soar Payments to help protect our merchants from some of the inevitable risks endemic to this industry.

Hair, Skin & Beauty Software Integrations

Enjoy Seamless Integration With Leading Hair, Skin & Beauty CRM & Software Suites:

Soar Payments beauty merchant accounts, either directly or via a payment gateway, are compatible and integrate with the following CRM and software platforms frequently used by businesses in the hair, skin and beauty industry:

Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Volusion, ClickFunnels, InfusionSoft, and OntraPort.

We’re Also Compatible With Many Other CRM & Software Suites.

Soar Payment’s haircare and skincare merchant accounts can be also integrated with most other software or CRM platforms which are compatible with the Authorize.net, NMI, or USAePay payment gateways. For questions about how to integrate your preferred beauty, haircare or skincare related CRM or online shopping cart software, contact our sales team.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are common questions specific to skin and haircare merchant accounts:

• What types of skin and haircare businesses do you accept?

  Soar Payments accepts a wide range of skin and haircare related businesses, including traditional retailers such as salons, cosmetics retailers and manufacturers, skin care boutiques, hair care boutiques, and many other beauty-related businesses. Primarily, however, we provide merchant services for online retailers of niche skin and haircare products, including retailers of creams, makeup, and other beauty products.

• Is Soar Payments compatible with my existing ecommerce, CRM or marketing automation software?

  Health and beauty-related businesses — including companies which sell skin or hair care products, cosmeceuticals, or other nutraceuticals — typically have a preferred ecommerce, CRM or marketing automation software platform they use. Because Soar Payments works with most major payment gateways (including Authorize.net, USAePay and NMI), our merchant accounts integrate with most popular software suites used by businesses in the beauty industry including: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Volusion, and similar ecommerce platforms, as well as marketing automation platforms like ClickFunnels, InfusionSoft, and OntraPort.

• What criteria does my hair or skin care business need to meet, to be approved for a merchant account by Soar Payments?

  To be approved, hair or skin care businesses must meet the the following criteria: must not offer “free plus shipping fee” deals, or free trials with products; must not sell products which contain ingredients on the banned list; must not make exaggerated health claims on product advertising.

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Accept Retail, Mobile, Virtual Terminal or eCommerce Payments

• Retail
• Mobile
• Virtual Terminal
• eCommerce

Retail Payments

Retail businesses can choose from a traditional credit card terminal, wireless, or point of sale system. Whatever you choose, our retail merchant accounts will have you accepting credit and debit cards faster, and for less.

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Mobile Payments

​Want “on the go” mid or high risk credit card processing? Our mobile pay options are for you. Choose between iPad or mobile phone credit card swipers, compatible with both iPhone and Android devices.

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Virtual Terminal Payments

Accepting payments over the phone, mail or typed in on your laptop  is easy with our virtual terminal merchant accounts.  No equipment needed. Just log in to your virtual terminal, and type in the customer’s credit card.

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eCommerce Payments

Selling online? Our easy to use payment gateways are compatible with, and simply plug in to most major shopping carts. Our mid and high risk merchant accounts are streamlined for eCommerce businesses.

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