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?
To get your slice of the internet cake, how can you set up a site to take payments? How can you do so on a tight budget?
It’s not really difficult and very affordable for even the beginner to set up a site that can receive payments.
Well, what do you do?
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
To create your web pages you will need some software. I personally use Dreamweaver. There are some very good free programs available on the internet.
With regard to your web hosting provider, here are some things you will need to look for:
Can you run a number of domains on the one account? The more the better. How many subdomains can you have? Over time you will want to promote more products. Each of these products would need a new domain or subdomain.
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.
Next your payment processors. There are very affordable ways to set up a payment processor. I’m just going to mention three.
PayPal is the first of these. You can join PayPal for free and begin receiving payments. Their income comes from the small percentage they take when the sale is made. Their payment system uses email to pay to. It is wise to set up an email account just for payments. Your hosting account should allow you a number of email addresses.
2checkout.com is another secure payment processor you could use. Many internet marketers use this payment processor. Most will use all three. This one has a setup fee of $50.00 and then charges a small fee for each sale you make.
The last on this list is ClickBank. ClickBank is free to join. It has a huge list of affiliate products that you could choose to promote. If you wish to become a vendor, selling your products using ClickBank you will need to pay a setup fee. This is about $50.00. ClickBank also charges a small percentage for each sale that is made through them.
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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