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American Express Payment Gateway

Confidently Conduct Your Online Business

  • Easy. Secure. Powered by American Express.
  • Protect your business from online payment fraud.
  • Accept most major payment types with confidence, simply and securely.

Too Many eCommerce Businesses Struggle with Frustrating Payment Solutions

  • Avoid payment solutions that don’t meet all of your needs.
  • Avoid complicated installs and frustrating tech support.
  • Avoid the disastrous impact of payment fraud on your business.

Advantages of Using the American Express Payment Gateway:

  • We’re here to support you. With American Express Payment Gateway Solution, you receive easy integration tools, combined with world-class American Express customer service and support you are accustomed to.
  • We help mitigate fraud. With American Express, the leading provider for fraud prevention solutions, we help drive down online fraud rates. Powerful automation saves you review time by ensuring that only legitimate orders flow through while fraudulent ones get flagged.
  • We’re flexible. A software development kit allows American Express Payment Gateway to work within most shopping carts and with over 50 payment acquirers/processors, so you won’t have to change how you accept payments. And with customizable pricing plans and add-on features, we have a solution that can fit just about any business.
  • We’re secure. Your customers’ credit card information is securely stored on our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) level one compliant servers and off your site. And, with our optional tokenization services, your customers can still make future purchases quickly and easily.

A flexible global solution for accepting most major payment types

American Express Payment Gateway is a global e-commerce solution with comprehensive data protection and fraud management tools. It allows merchants to securely accept and route most major payment type transactions from their website or virtual terminal, to more than 50 acquiring banks around the world. The platform offers servicing, competitive pricing, a flexible API, and works with over 120 currencies.

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Find the right plan for you

Payment Gateway has pricing options to fit just about any business.

Payment Gateway Pricing (U.S.)*


Additional Features

Payment tokenization: $20/mo
250 transactions included, $0.01 per additional transaction.

* Pricing subject to change pursuant to product terms and conditions.

Purchase and use of the American Express Payment Gateway are limited to merchants that accept the American Express Card. If you do not currently accept the American Express Card, you are not eligible to purchase or use the American Express Payment Gateway.

Accept payments on your terms

The Payment Gateway allows for easy integration with most shopping carts, payment types and payment acquirers/processors.

American Express works with over 50 acquirers globally.

Currently, we accept the following payment types:

  • American Express®
  • MasterCard®
  • Visa®
  • Diners Club®
  • Discover®
  • JCB®
  • PayPal™
  • Maestro®

Don’t see your payment processor listed above? Contact us at PSG.customer.request@aexp.com for assistance.

Though our Payment Gateway is designed to be simple for developers to integrate into most sites, we’re happy to refer you to one of our affiliates should you need technical assistance. Contact us at 1-800-663-6175 for more information.

Purchase and use of the American Express Payment Gateway are limited to merchants that accept the American Express Card. If you do not currently accept the American Express Card, you are not eligible to purchase or use the American Express Payment Gateway.

For enterprise merchants, please visit Accertify for your payment gateway needs. www.accertify.com