Why Do It?

Credit card payments allow you to take advantage of :

1. Consumer Confidence. Consumers are buying on the Internet and using their credit cards to do so. Don't lose sales because you don't offer the opportunity to purchase using credit cards.

2. Impulse buyers. After reading your advertisements and hype on your site, buyers would be all fired up about your product. If they have a means of making a purchase immediately, you've secured that sale. If you only allow cheque payments, the additional time it takes for them to get their cheque book and mail out the cheque may be a deterrence. They may also have second thoughts later.

3. International customers. Credit card payment is a tremendous convenience if your customers are overseas. It automatically takes care of the problems of currency differences as well as the time it takes for a cheque to travel to the vendor. You will lose a large number of overseas customers if cheque payment is the only way you can accept payment

How to do it?

There are two ways that you can process Credit Cards on your site.

1. Using Your Own Merchant Account. People will submit their Credit Card information directly through your site. Customers never leave your site to submit their order.

We Recommend Electronic Merchant Systems It takes minutes to register and you will be accepting credit cards in minutes.

2. Through a Third Party Merchant. There are companies around who will accept credit cards payments on your behalf in exchange for various fees and percentages. Customers are transported to another site in order to purchase and you receive the money on a bimonthly basis.

We recommend 2CheckOut.com Low fees. Reliable transactions.

And don't forget to offer PayPal payments. Always good.