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ACCEPTING CREDIT CARDS

Making a web site fully e-commerce enabled is an expensive proposition. However, we do have a way to set-up collection of funds via credit card through your web site. And you will hardly believe how little it cost!

The overview to accomplish this is as follows. First, include in your web site a description of what you want to sell, why you want the donation or who owes you the money. Then you provide a "click here to pay" button. When the visitor clicks that button, they go from your web site to a secure web site which takes the payment for you.

There are a couple of companies which provide this service but the one we recommend is PayPal. PayPal provides the world's first instant and secure online payment service. PayPal is recommended by CNET as "the most reliable personal payment service." PayPal is owned by eBay. It is the global leader in online payment solutions with 86 million account members worldwide.

We recommend PayPal because:

It is extremely reliable

It is extremely easy to implement

The setup and monthly fees are zero; you only pay a small per transaction fee.

If you sign-up for their "business account", the fees are low. You pay no set-up fee and only 30 cents plus 1.9% to 2.9% per transaction; with no monthly minimum. We've created an example to show you how it works.

That demo page was created in a few minutes using the basic template functions which are part of our web site. With the functionality PayPal provides you, collecting funds through PayPal can be done at any web site.