One of the great assets of having an online business is that you are “open” 24 hours a day, which is one reason more and more people are embracing shopping over the Internet. If they get an urge at 2 in the morning to add some music downloads or get the latest best-seller they can do so from their laptop. And this is why you need to make sure that the company that offers your credit card online processing has an unblemished reputation for keeping all systems up and running 24/7. Because when someone is shopping over the ‘net they don’t want to be slowed down.