subject: Take Your Business To The Next Level By Accepting Online Payments [print this page] If you want to accept online payments for anything you need to consider a few things. You need to think about who will be paying you, how often, and what kind of payment you are planning to receive. Here are some of your options for accepting online payments:
PayPal - This is a very easy way to exchange money online and can be use for anything from settling a lunch tab to lending money to a friend or relative. Almost everyone has a PayPal account these days and if they don't you can transfer money into an account through a credit card.
For people who are running business and you want to accept online payments you can still use a PayPal account. They have a merchant center where you can set up a PayPal shopping cart on your site.
Almost all small businesses can get away with using PayPal for processing online payments and subscriptions. Selling things on eBay is a breeze with PayPal because eBay owns it and it's built right into eBay.
If you are going to be processing quite a few payments however, your fees are going to start to add up fast. If this is becoming the case you are better off setting up a merchant account. This involves some back end work and you are going to have to alter your site a bit to accommodate this.
If you are sure about the technical issues involved in setting up your payment funnel on your website you need to either hire a professional or read up on the topic yourself. Messing things up in this area is not a good thing to have happen. Your customers expect the payment portion of a website to run smoothly and be a very easy experience.
If this is not the case you will most likely end up losing the sale and in the long run these small mistakes can end up costing you quite a bit of money.
