To be able to receive on site payments is relatively easy and painless. In fact there is a free way as well as some low cost methods. In order to be in business on the internet you must be able to receive payments for your products on line. Most of us don’t have a bottomless pit of money to throw around, so we need to look for cost effective, affordable and reliable methods.

We’re going to look at:

Where to get safe reliable credit card site payments

How to place the payment button into the web page.

A free, secure and reliable payment processor is PayPal. The only cost with PayPal is a small charge for each sale that is made. You only pay out of your profit when a sale is made. Go to PayPal.com and open an account. You will be required to verify this account. PayPal will tell you how. You will be expected to supply your credit card details. This is quite safe with PayPal.

Before you begin to think about creating your payment buttons, there is one thing you will need.This is the URL of the download page. You will need this information as this is where PayPal sends your customer after payment has been completed.

Now to creating your payment button. Log into your PayPal account and look for “Merchant Tools”. This will open up a choice of “Shopping Cart”, “Pay Now Buttons” or “Subscriptions or recurring Payments”

The shopping cart allows for multiple purchases to be made before the customer goes to the checkout and pays.

The Buy Now Buttons are for a single product on a sales page. This is the only product that is being sold on the page so the button sends the purchaser directly to PayPal for payment.

The Subscriptions and recurring Payments is similar to the buy now button in that only one product is being sold. The difference is that payments continue to occur. Here you also have a choice of monthly, weekly or yearly payments. You may set it up to expire after a number of payments or never expire.

Once you fill in the details of the product, PayPal produces an encrypted script you will need to install on the site where you want the button to appear.

Using any WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, scroll down your sales page to where the button is to go. Click the mouse so the cursor is blinking on the line where the sales button is to go and insert a table. Click inside the table. The cursor is now inside the table. Change to code view. Click on edit and paste the code from PayPal into where the cursor is blinking.

Now go to browser view and check how it will look on line.

That’s it! You are now able to receive payments on your site.