How To Take Payments On Your Website

Written by Jeff Colburn


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Here are some companies offering shopping carts. ·1Shopping Cart.com http://www.1shoppingcart.com - They charge a monthly fee. ·CCNow - See their listing under Billing Companies. ·Miva http://www.miva.com - This is a very powerful shopping cart. ·PayPal - See their listing under Billing Companies. ·Yahoo www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/merchant - They offer 3 different packages, charge a monthly fee and take a percentage of each sale. They will also drop ship your orders, so you never have to ship anything, Yahoo does it all.

The above companies haverepparttar cart on their site and you send people to them duringrepparttar 132347 buying process. You can also download shopping cart software onto your server for your visitors to use. Be sure to check with your hosting company to be surerepparttar 132348 software you want to download will work on their server. The following link lists free shopping cart software. However, know that you often get what you pay for, and that technical support may be poor or nonexistent with this free software. So check out Online Orders http://www.onlineorders.net/links/Free/ . They have a section on their site that, as of this writing, lists thirty-nine free shopping carts.

Many billing companies also offer a shopping cart, usually for free. For example, I use PayPal on my site and they have a free shopping cart that works in conjunction with their billing service. The purchase process is easy and I can even changerepparttar 132349 look of their shopping cart to be similar to my site.

Some website hosting companies also offer billing services and shopping carts. You may want to go this route so that everything for your website is done through one company. However, if your hosting company doesn't do a very good job hosting your site, I don't think you'd want to trust them with your billing and shopping cart service.

Here are a couple of website hosting companies that offer shopping carts and more. ·ValueWeb http://www.valueweb.com/ - They offer shopping cart and credit card processing. ·Westhost http://www.Westhost.com - They haverepparttar 132350 Miva Merchant storefront and shopping cart software and Payquake for payment processing.

As with most things onrepparttar 132351 Internet, you have a lot of choices. To make a choice that's right for you, know what you want and considerrepparttar 132352 points I've mentioned above. When you have a billing and shopping cart company that meets your needs, and your client's needs, it will make everyone's life easier and make you more money.

http://www.CreativeCauldron.com Jeff Colburn is a website designer and writer. His goal is to make the process of creating or updating your website easy and simple for you, while creating a website that meets all your needs and expectations. Jeff can also create all of the copy for your website.


Building your website for visitors

Written by Karl Norris


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Effective copy Again there are numerous articles on writing effective copy. The key point to remember is that it providesrepparttar customer with information about who you are and what you sell whilst containing a reasonable amount of keywords. Ifrepparttar 132344 copy reads well,repparttar 132345 number of keywords should be acceptable. Always remember to update regularly as customers and search engines love up to date content.

Feedback forms Feedback forms are a useful way to get ideas for improving your site in a way that benefits your customers. Once implemented conversion should start to increase, meaning you get a greater return on advertising investment.

Contact details Having a phone number and an address where you can be contacted gives customers confidence that you are an established business and are happier to transact online. Don’t hide away your contact details inrepparttar 132346 hope no one will use them.

Links Links in and out ofrepparttar 132347 site should be forrepparttar 132348 benefit of visitors as well as search engines. Remember you can be selective when obtaining links and make sure all links are relevant torepparttar 132349 product you are selling andrepparttar 132350 industry you operate in.

Karl Norris is the E-Commerce Manager for Primary Insurance, www.primaryinsurance.co.uk. As a finance professional he focuses on generating and increasing profitability from online business activities.


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