Accepting Credit Cards Online
Tuesday, 03 March 2009 08:34
Having a great website design with quality content is just the beginning of attaining online business success. Once you choose a target market, determine what you want to sell and set up a website, you need to offer a secure way for your customers to pay online. Online Merchant Services allows your website or retail business to be more secure and profitable.
Attracting people to your website is meaningless unless they feel secure to make a purchase right away. If you do not have a secure system set up, potential customers will be reluctant to place orders using your website and you lose valuable business. With Interactive Online Merchant Services, you accept credit cards and electronic check payments in a quick, affordable manner. Interactive Online offers several methods for integrating your websites to the online payment gateway.
Interactive Online merchant services will enable you to authorize, settle and manage credit card and electronic check transactions through your websites, mail orders, mobile devices, retail stores and telephone orders. Simply choose the merchant service method that best serves your business needs to include both online and offline payment processing solutions.
An online shopping cart makes it easy for customers to shop at your website. As they choose items they want, they put them into their online shopping cart. When they are done browsing, the review their online shopping cart items and request a total amount due based on their selections and current shipping and handling. There are multiple online shopping cart systems including Zencart, CubeCart, OsCommerce, Magento, Cre-loaded, VirtueMart and several others. Authorize.net online merchant acount can be integrated with most of these online shopping cart systems. This automates your payment solution so it's easy to use. A browser based terminal can be used to manually process these transactions.
If you are a web hosting provider, there is a special version of Authorize.net just for your business needs. Enjoy special discount rates on Authorize.net as a web hosting provider. This online merchant account also seamlessly integrates with WHMCH (Web Host Manager Complete Solution), Modernbill and ClientExec.
Why not turn any PC with Internet access into its own retail credit card terminal? ChargeEasy is an inexpensive card swipe reader that plugs directly into your USB port and connects to Interactive's secure Web based system. With no additional hardware or software required, you effortlessly process credit card payments to offers another tier of convenience to your valued customers.
Online merchant services also help you with retail processing, point of sale and wireless. When you make face-to-face transactions, you simply swipe your customer's card at the point of sale. Retail merchants qualify for special rates that are much lower that Internet rates. Interactive Online also offers a full line of new retail and wireless credit card terminals and printers at extremely competitive pricing.
Finally, everyone online is using PayPal for Business and personal transactions. By having PayPal for business, you can get paid by credit card or instant bank transfer with one cost-effective solution. Another advantage of PayPal is you pay as you go. Rates are as low as 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent plus $.30 USD per transaction.
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