How To Set Up Your Site To Take Payments
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 what do you need to do?
A first thing you need is a web host. It will be unwise to choose a free host, as they will also advertise on your site. I’m sure that you would prefer your customers to focus on your products rather than your hosting provider’s products. You will also find it difficult to do all you need to do with such a limited host
Then you need find someone that will process your payments.
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.
Finding a good web hosting provider is your first job. Here are some things 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.
Can you use CGI and PHP scripts on your site? How much disk space do you get with this account? How many MySql databases are you permitted to run? These are some of the things you need to get answers to in choosing a web host.
Then we need our payment processors. We’ll just look at three. These are the most popular among internet marketers, they are also very affordable. Would free be cheap enough?
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.
2Checkout.com is another payment processor. They charge a one off fee of $50 to set up your account and then a small percentage of each sale. This processor also is used by many internet marketers.
ClickBank is the last of our payment processors we will look at in this article. ClickBank has a huge list of products that they promote. They are used by most internet marketers who run affiliate programs. You can join ClickBank as an affiliate for free and begin promoting products. If you want to become a seller using ClickBank there is an initial one off fee of about $50.
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.
As you can see, setting up your own e commerce web site is not real difficult and is very affordable.
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