Receiving On Site Payments Free
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 safe reliable credit card site payments
How to install and position it in a web page.
PayPal: This is the free option. We will explore the free option here and in another article I will explore some of the good cheap options available. Go to PayPal.com and open a free account. You will need to verify yourself and PayPal will tell you what they expect for you to verify your identity. PayPal is a very secure and safe way to receive payments.
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 you need to log into your PayPal account. After you log-in look for Merchant Tools. Open Merchant Tools and this opens up to you some options. These options are: Shopping Cart, Buy Now Buttons, and Subscriptions and 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.
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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