A Budget Way To Take Payments On Your Site.
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?
With such potential in front of you how can you set up an e commerce web site on your hosting account? Even more important how can you do so on a budget?
It’s fairly simple really, and very affordable. The first time you do it you may sweat a little as everything you do for the first time is not easy, but you will soon learn. It is also most affordable for most people. So what do you need to do?
So how do you go about it?
The first requirement would have to be a good web host. I would suggest a cheap host not a free host. I don’t mean cheap and nasty. There are plenty of good deals to be found. The other reason you don’t want to use a free web hosting provider is you don’t want their advertising on your site.
You will also need a payment processor, one that doesn’t cost the earth. Free preferably
One other thing you will need if you don’t have it already is software for creating your web pages. There are some very good free programs available on the internet.
Finding a good web hosting provider is your first job. Here are some things 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.
Does the hosting account let you run CGI scripts? How many databases are you permitted to run? How much disk space are you allotted? These are just a few of the questions you will need to ask in choosing a host.
You also need a payment processor. There are hundreds of these. I am just going to look at three of them. They are all budget and very affordable. One is totally free to set up.
The free one is PayPal. You pay them a small percentage of your sale when you make one. Their payment system works with email. You will need to set up a dedicated email account. You will be able to do this with your hosting account. Your hosing account should allow you to set up quite a few email addresses.
The next one to look at is 2Checkout.com. They have an initial one off fee to set up your account. This is about $50. After this they take a small percentage each time a sale is made. 2Checkout is also well used by many internet marketers.
The last one we’ll look at is ClickBank. They sell many products for internet marketers and businesses. They organize and pay affiliates. It is free to join ClickBank as an affiliate. To become a seller you need to set up a separate account with a one off fee of $50 to set up the account and then a percentage of each sale.
Both PayPal and 2Checkout.com generate code for you to place in your site. You will need to place this code onto the body of your page where you want the button to appear. ClickBank generates a URL which you can link to a sales button.
You see that setting up your site to take payments is both easy and very inexpensive.
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