How To Set Up Your Site To Take Payments
The internet today has thousands or millions of shoppers. Payments over the internet have become common place for many people. How can you set up your site so you too can be part of this phenomenon?
So the big question is; how difficult and expensive is it to set up your web site with a payment processor?
It’s not really difficult and very affordable for even the beginner to set up a site that can receive payments.
Well, what do you do?
First you need to get yourself a good web host. Not a free one. Why not free? A free host makes you look unprofessional. They have their own advertising on your site. You need to be able to have your own advertising or no advertising so that you focus your customers on your product.
Then you need find someone that will process your payments.
You will also need the software to make your pages.
With regard to your web hosting provider, here are some things you will need to look for:
As your business grows and you promote more products you will need more domain names. Your web hosting provider must allow you to run a number of domains on your account. You also need to be able to have a good number of subdomains.
Will you be able to run CGI scripts as well as PHP? How many databases will you be allowed to use. Most PHP scripts use MySql databases. This is what makes your sites dynamic. These are all questions you need to get answers to in order to decide on a web hosting provider.
Then we need our payment processors. We’ll just look at three. These are the most popular among internet marketers, they are also very affordable. Would free be cheap enough?
The first one is free. You pay a small percentage of your sale to the processor. This one is PayPal. Free to join and set up your account. You will need a PayPal email address. It is good to set up a dedicated email for this. You should be able to do this with your hosting account as you should be able to set up a number of emails.
2checkout.com is another secure payment processor you could use. Many internet marketers use this payment processor. Most will use all three. This one has a setup fee of $50.00 and then charges a small fee for each sale you make.
The last on this list is ClickBank. ClickBank is free to join. It has a huge list of affiliate products that you could choose to promote. If you wish to become a vendor, selling your products using ClickBank you will need to pay a setup fee. This is about $50.00. ClickBank also charges a small percentage for each sale that is made through them.
On the sites of both PayPal and 2Checkout.com you can set up your products and their sites will generate code you can place in your sales pages where you want the buttons to appear. Or link to an existing button. ClickBank will generate a URL you can link to a button on your site. This is the easiest method of the three.
As you can see, setting up your own e commerce web site is not real difficult and is very affordable.
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