How To Receive On Site 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 get free reliable and safe credit card processor.
How to install and position it in a web page.
A free, secure and reliable payment processor is PayPal. The only cost with PayPal is a small charge for each sale that is made. You only pay out of your profit when a sale is made. Go to PayPal.com and open an account. You will be required to verify this account. PayPal will tell you how. You will be expected to supply your credit card details. This is quite safe with PayPal.
Before you begin to get your payment button from PayPal you will need to know the url of your download page as you will need this to start up your payment link. PayPal sends your customer to this url 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.
The Subscriptions and recurring Payments is similar to the buy now button in that only one product is being sold. The difference is that payments continue to occur. Here you also have a choice of monthly, weekly or yearly payments. You may set it up to expire after a number of payments or never expire.
Once the details are filled in PayPal provides you with an encrypted script that you need to install on your sales page. You will need to position it where you want the payment 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.
Switch to browser view and see how it will look on the internet. Make whatever adjustments you need and you are done.
That’s it! You have set up a page to take payments.
