How To Set Up Your Site To Receive Payments.
Running an internet business from home or anywhere requires being able to receive payments on line. For many this may seem like a problem. It is actually easy and painless. You can set up a payment processor at no cost, but still have a reliable and secure credit card payment method.
Our focus in this article is:
Where to go for reliable, secure and cost effective payments processors
How to install the payment buttons in a web page.
The free payment processor is PayPal. When I say it is free I mean that it is free to join and use their system. There is a small fee for each sale you make. You will need to check this out for yourself. Now go to PayPal.com and open a free account. You will be asked for credit card details and you will need to verify your identity. PayPal is a very secure system and very safe way to receive payments.
Before you begin to think about creating your payment buttons, there is one thing you will need.This is the URL of the download page. You will need this information as this is where PayPal sends your customer after payment has been completed.
Now to creating your payment button. Log into your PayPal account and look for “Merchant Tools”. This will open up a choice of “Shopping Cart”, “Pay Now Buttons” or “Subscriptions or recurring Payments”
The shopping cart allows for multiple purchases to be made before the customer goes to the checkout and pays.
If your page is just selling one item and it is a one-time sale you would choose the buy now button. Having your page focus on just one item can be an advantage to selling. When the customer clicks on the buy now button they are taken directly to PayPal to complete the purchase.
Subscription and recurring payments work the same way as the buy now button as there is only one product on offer. This product has recurring payments. This could be a hosting account that is paid monthly. You can set a cheaper trial period and then recurring payments at the usual rate. You can also set how often the recurring payment needs to be made, weekly, monthly, yearly or any setting you choose.
Once you fill in the details of the product, PayPal produces an encrypted script you will need to install on the site where you want the button to appear.
In Dreamweaver or any HTML editor, go to where you want the button to appear and create a table. Make sure the cursor is in the table and center it. Now while the cursor is in the center of the table switch to code. You should now see the cursor flashing in the code. This is inside the table you created. While your cursor is flashing here, click on edit at the top of the screen and choose paste from the drop down options. You have now inserted the code and the button will appear where you wanted it to.
Now go to browser view and check how it will look on line.
That’s it! You are now able to receive payments on your site.
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