How To Set Up Your Site To Receive Payments.
To be able to receive on site payments is relatively easy and painless. In fact there is a free way as well as some low cost methods. In order to be in business on the internet you must be able to receive payments for your products on line. Most of us don’t have a bottomless pit of money to throw around, so we need to look for cost effective, affordable and reliable methods.
Our focus in this article is:
Where to get safe reliable credit card site payments
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 is used on sites that have a number of products to choose from. This allows the customer to decide to purchase something and then continue looking and buying other items, and then finally going to the checkout and paying for the items selected.
The Buy Now Buttons are for a single product on a sales page. This is the only product that is being sold on the page so the button sends the purchaser directly to PayPal for payment.
As is the case with buy now button, the subscription and recurring payments button is for just one item. Payments continue to be made at intervals specified by you. These can be weekly, monthly, yearly or any period you specify. This payment system also allows for a trial period and then the payments at the specified intervals.
When you have chosen which system to use and have filled in all the details, PayPal produces a script code you can install into your sales page, where you want the button to appear.
Using any WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, scroll down your sales page to where the button is to go. Click the mouse so the cursor is blinking on the line where the sales button is to go and insert a table. Click inside the table. The cursor is now inside the table. Change to code view. Click on edit and paste the code from PayPal into where the cursor is blinking.
Now go to browser view and check how it will look on line.
You have now successfully inserted a payment button into your site.
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