Tuesday, October 6, 2026
News For Internet Marketers
Authorize.Net's production maintenance on Saturday, October 17, 2026, starts at 9:00 PM Pacific (midnight Eastern) and, per its notice, AFDS transactions will process as if fraud filters are not enabled while CIM, ARB, voids, refunds, and hosted checkout CAPTCHA may be intermittently unavailable.
Chapters 1021 and 1044 of Virginia's 2026 Acts of Assembly repealed the licensed delivery-sale section for liquid nicotine and nicotine vapor products and left Code 18.2-246.8(B) limiting delivery of internet vape orders to retail dealers. A proposed Virginia ABC internet permit rule has not said how it treats vapor products.
Restricted sellers shut out of Shopify Payments pay a plan-based surcharge on every gateway order, including tax and shipping, with no refund on returns. This analysis models the plan crossovers, the ENDS removal, and when self-hosting pays back.
Platform payment bans and Shop-channel limits push many firearms accessory merchants off Shopify Payments. This analysis weighs WooCommerce and BigCommerce for SKU control, age gates, and specialty gateway integrations before peak season.
Developers building firearm checkouts outside template apps often drop transfer-fee transparency and FFL handoff steps. Those gaps drive chargebacks and compliance failures when the buyer reaches the transferring dealer.
Telehealth brands that bill consults and pharmacy fulfillment on separate MIDs can reduce statement confusion and chargebacks when checkout copy, refunds, and descriptors stay aligned. FDA GLP-1 telehealth pressure makes clean money flows part of processor survival too.
After Square's October 15 CBD catalog deadline and November 5 hemp-primary closure pattern, Shopify and WooCommerce stores need underwriting, dual-MID, plugin, ACH, and chargeback criteria before they trust any specialty gateway marketing page.
Mastercard's Scam Merchant Monitoring Program, effective July 24, 2026 under bulletin GLB 12772, compresses scam-signal response into a 72-hour acquirer investigation clock that high-risk card-not-present stores cannot treat as optional ops theater.
FDA's September 18, 2026 warning letter to Empower Pharmacy ties high-volume compounded GLP-1 combinations to telehealth-style menus that preselect significant-difference language under section 503A.
After active exploitation of WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture CVE-2026-27540, high-risk stores need file integrity monitoring on uploads, checkout templates, and admin users before acquirers ask for forensics.
