How to quickly accept credit cards on your website
If you are looking for a quick and inexpensive solution to accepting payments on your website, check out PayPal. They offer a service that is free to set up and offers competitive transaction rates.
Paypal has a service called WebSite Payments, which I got set up in a few minutes. You have to be a PayPal user, but that doesn’t take very long to set up either.
All you need to do is log into your PayPal account and click on the Merchant Tools tab in the middle of menu bar.
From there you go to left side of the page and select WebSite Payments Standard and then configure your buttons based on how you want them to look.
The HTML code is automatically generated when you are finished configuring. All you need to do then is just put that HTML code in your web page, update it and you are ready to begin accepting payment.
It’s really that simple.
The DOWNSIDE to this solution is that when someone clicks on your button, they are taken to a generic PayPal page which won’t look like your site. That site isn’t very clear about what to do next - the options are either to log into PayPal, or to continue without logging in.
If you depend on conversions from a web page that looks and feels like your site and is on the same domain, then I suggest you look into PayPal’s next best solution called WebSite Payments Pro.
Because this solution, while simple and easy, DOES not look very good after the buyer clicks your buy now button.
Here’s a video on how and why I chose this solution for my blog:
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