Receiving On Site Payments Free
One of the many challenges that most new internet entrepreneurs face is receiving payments via their site. When starting out most of us don’t have a bottomless sack of money. How can you cheaply and securely receive payments? There are many payment processors on the internet. Some are cheaper than others. I’m going to highlight just one today. This one is free.
Our focus in this article is:
Where to go for reliable, secure and cost effective payments processors
How to install the payment buttons in a web page.
The free payment processor is PayPal. When I say it is free I mean that it is free to join and use their system. There is a small fee for each sale you make. You will need to check this out for yourself. Now go to PayPal.com and open a free account. You will be asked for credit card details and you will need to verify your identity. PayPal is a very secure system and very safe way to receive payments.
Before you begin to think about creating your payment buttons, there is one thing you will need.This is the URL of the download page. You will need this information as this is where PayPal sends your customer 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”
You would choose the shopping cart if your site had a number of products available. The customer can pick and choose as you would in a super market. After choosing the items wanted the customer finalizes their sale by going to checkout and paying for the items in the cart.
The Buy Now Buttons are for a single product on a sales page. This is the only product that is being sold on the page so the button sends the purchaser directly to PayPal for payment.
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.
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 a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, scroll down the page to where you want the button to appear. Now click your mouse here so that the cursor is blinking where the button is to appear. Create a table. Click your mouse inside the table, and change the view to code view. You should now see the cursor blinking in the code. Make sure you have copied the PayPal code to the clipboard of the computer. Click on “Edit” and then “Paste”. This will insert the PayPal code into your page. If you need to center it just use center as you would text.
Now go to browser view and check how it will look on line.
That’s it! You have set up a page to take payments.
