Accept Credit Cards Online Through an Online Payment Processor
If you are not ready to set up your own credit card merchant account and/or you want to offer additional online payment options, you can turn to a variety of third party, online payment processors. An online payment processor provides ways for you to accept credit cards and other payments online without the extra cost [...]
Taking Credit Cards with PayPal
Folks seem to have a love-hate relationship with PayPal. Many love the service, others hate it. The service, however, is continually evolving. PayPal seems to be making a valid effort to improve the service by addressing drawbacks and expanding merchant tools. For example, PayPal now offers encrypted HTML to prevent buyers from fraudulently changing payment [...]
Clickbank Merchant Account
You can sell your digital, downloadable products online as well as take credit card payments, debit cards, and online checks through Clickbank and its marketplace. As with all third party processing, the sale is technically made by Clickbank, to which you “sell” access to your digital product. In return, they pay you a percent of [...]
2CheckOut – Accept Credit Cards Online
One of the most attractive features of accepting credit cards online with 2checkout is the wide variety of transactions allowed. You can accept credit cards online for products, services, or digital goods; set up recurring payments; accept donations; and send bills through 2checkout. The service screens payments for fraud, handles billing inquiries, and maintains the [...]
Identity Theft and Ecommerce By Robert Fleming, CeM, President eMarketing Association
We have been hearing a lot lately about identity theft. Recently, CardSystems, an Atlanta based credit card processor, exposed 40 Visa, Discover, MasterCard and American Express card numbers and security codes to hackers. A recent statistic from Gartner Group speculates that fewer than 1 in 700 identity crimes lead to a conviction. Recent estimates go [...]
The 14 Point Web Hosting Checklist By Ed Zivkovic
How To Select A Web Hosting Company When starting out, it is easy to overlook some of the most important factors when selecting a web host while paying too much attention on great features which you may not need at the start. For example, most new webmasters judge a web host by the amount of [...]
Cheap Web Hosting, What To Look For And What To Stay Away From by Robert Lang
“Bargains for sale, Unlimited Hosting for only a Dollar.” “Get your hosting here, 50 cents for the first three months.” “Use now. Pay later.” In today’s world of hosting, instead of who’s got the bigger and better thing, it’s who has it for the cheapest and don’t forget that they usually it at an “unlimited [...]
Don’t Make These Hosting Mistakes! from HostVoice.net.
Forward from Bobette Kyle: Several of the hosting mistakes in the following article hit close to home. For example, I watched as a friend lost her entire site when “upgrading” her store-in-a-box hosting service. THEN, the service would not give a refund OR the technical support to get the site functional. Weeks later, her site [...]
Finding The Right Ecommerce Providers From WebSiteHostDirectory.com. Contributed by Mark Drake.
Forward from Bobette Kyle: Ecommerce is one of the most confusing and potentially costly components of doing business online. Here are five tips to help you avoid costly ecommerce mistakes. As an editorial side note, the first tip – choose a complete provider (one that will both design and host your site) – may or [...]
