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I work from home and have been working online since 2001 and at that time I had never heard of paypal and expected to be paying a lot of money to accept credit cards online. I thought I would make money online and give most of it up to pay for online credit card processing, but that never happened either.
Accepting payment via credit cards is a plus when it comes to selling online. It’s convenient for your customers and actually opens the door for more people to purchase from you. As a matter of fact, some people will not buy products or pay for services online unless the seller offers the credit card payment option. So, how do you go about getting your site set up to accept credit card payments via Paypal’s Website Payments Standard option?
As a huge player in the online money exchange market, PayPal allows your customers to pay for your products or services via a credit card under the following conditions.
1. You must have an account set up with PayPal.
2. Your account must be a business or premier account.
3. You must sign up for the Website Payment Standard option within your PayPal account.
There are also other options for those who currently have a merchant account or other shopping cart. You can find out more about these by clicking the Merchant tab inside your PayPal account.
Here’s what you get when you choose the Website Payment Standard Option for accepting payments.
- Ability to accept the following payment types.
Credit Cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover)
Bank Transfers
Online payments from PayPal accounts
- Buy Now Buttons
- Accept Donations
- Accept Subscription Payments
- Ability to accept credit card payments via telephone, fax or in person (there is a $20 monthly fee for this option)
- No set up or monthly fees
- Free PayPal shopping cart and the ability to set up your own shopping cart, should you already have one.
Other things to note:
Your customer does not have to have a PayPal account in order to pay you this way.
You will be charged a per transaction rate determined by the amount of the purchase.
To actually set up the Website Payments Standard option, follow the steps below.
1 – Login to your PayPal account.
2 – Click the Merchant Services tab.
3. Click the learn more link under the PayPal Website Payments Standard Option.
4. Once you’ve read through all the details and decided this is the option you would like to use, follow the links to sign up!
5. Once you’ve signed up it’s simply a matter of pasting some HTML code onto your site!
So, once you have a Paypal account you can work from home and make money online without the headache involved in credit card processing. Take action today and start earning tomorrow, or maybe even today.
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Accepting payment via credit cards is a plus when it comes to selling online. It’s convenient for your customers and actually opens the door for more people to purchase from you