Re: accepting online payments

 Paypal, after some close investigation, does seem like the right tool
for the limited amount of transactions we foresee on our site.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Jim" <jimb(at)aci.on.ca>; "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: accepting online payments


> > Could someone please let me know how to go about simply accepting credit
> > card payments through a form on our site?
>
>   Paypal.com does this quite well for simple items.  You are not required
to
> have a merchant account.  If you have a bank account and a credit card its
> fast and painless to sign up.  It's also very affordable.
>
>  After you have signed up, you go to the sell area and select shopping
cart.
> Then you fill out some simple info on your product and it gives you the
> cut-and-paste code for your webpage.  Paypal uses a secure server and is
the
> largest payee service of its type on the net.
>
>  When a customer buys, you get an email telling you to ship the product
and
> the money is placed in your Paypal account.
>
>  Paypal's suitable for simple "buy me" buttons only.  If you need more
than
> that like color and size drop downs and radio buttons for accessories, you
> will need to use someone elses software to work with paypal.  Coolcart.com
> offers a great cart that can dovetail with Paypal nicely.
>
> Paul Wilson
> webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com
>
>

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