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Running an internet business from home or anywhere requires being able to receive payments on line. For many this may seem like a problem. It is actually easy and painless. You can set up a payment processor at no cost, but still have a reliable and secure credit card payment method.

We’re going to look at:

Where to get safe reliable credit card site payments

How to install and position it in a web page.

PayPal: This is the free option. We will explore the free option here and in another article I will explore some of the good cheap options available. Go to PayPal.com and open a free account. You will need to verify yourself and PayPal will tell you what they expect for you to verify your identity. PayPal is a very secure and safe way to receive payments.

The first thing you will need to do is set up your download page. You will need the URL of this page in setting up the payment button. This the URL that your customers will be sent to after a successful payment has been made.

After opening an account and verifying it you will now be able to set up your payment buttons. Log into your PayPal Account and click on “merchant Tools” You now have a choice of “Shopping Cart”, “Buy Now Buttons” and “Subscriptions and recurring Payments”

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

Buy Now Buttons are used on sites where the sales page offers just one item. There are no choices to be made, only to buy the product on offer. This button will send the customer directly to PayPal to finalize the transaction.

Subscription and recurring payments work the same way as the buy now button as there is only one product on offer. This product has recurring payments. This could be a hosting account that is paid monthly. You can set a cheaper trial period and then recurring payments at the usual rate. You can also set how often the recurring payment needs to be made, weekly, monthly, yearly or any setting you choose.

When you have chosen which system to use and have filled in all the details, PayPal produces a script code you can install into your sales page, 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.

You can test it by switching to browser view and see how your page will display on the internet.

That’s it! You have set up a page to take payments.