Our system allows you to accept credit cards as a form of payment form your customers. You might be asking, though, "How does the money actually get to my bank account?" since it is our system that your customers are using.
There are actually two answers.
First, by default, we do not actually process customer credit cards. We merely validate the card numbers, expiration dates, etc, and then we make that information available to you to process as you would normally do for any phone or fax order. Doing things this way means no extra fees for you and there is nothing you really need to "do" to get this working. Just check one or more "credit card" types of payment in your restaurant manager and you are all set.
The second answer is that if you want credit cards to actually be charged in real-time by our system at the time of customer checkout, then you need to have a Merchant Account that is connected to your bank account. That merchant account must also work with one of the two Payment Gateway Service Providers that we support: Authorize.Net and PayPal (Merchant Services (formerly VerSign Merchant Services).
There are fees for these extra services, which we do not sell ourselves. We are not affiliated with any merchant account provider or payment gateway service provider, and we collect no fees from them. The eHungry.com system is responsible only for submitting transactions to the payment gateway, using the credentials that are unique to your account, so that funds are automatically deposited into your own bank account.
For more information on getting started with a Payment Gateway Service provider and merchant account services, you may contact Authorize.Net or PayPal Merchant Services.