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Frequently Asked Questions
What are my options for e-commerce?
You can take payments online in a number of ways. The first is PayPal - this an inexpensive way to start taking payments quickly, especially if you don't have a merchant account. With PayPal, your visitors can pay you with a credit card or by sending a payment from their checking account (echeck). They charge a percentage per transaction and have no start-up fees. The downsides are that PayPal is not a very customizable solution. However, this is changing and many mainstream sites are now accepting PayPal as more and more people have PayPal accounts.
Another option is a full e-commerce solution. This involves many different components - a merchant account from a bank, a payment gateway service that allows you to accept payments into your merchant account direct from your website.