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Where to go for reliable, secure and cost effective payments processors

How to place the payment button into the web page.

A free, secure and reliable payment processor is PayPal. The only cost with PayPal is a small charge for each sale that is made. You only pay out of your profit when a sale is made. Go to PayPal.com and open an account. You will be required to verify this account. PayPal will tell you how. You will be expected to supply your credit card details. This is quite safe with PayPal.

Before you begin to get your payment button from PayPal you will need to know the url of your download page as you will need this to start up your payment link. PayPal sends your customer to this url after payment has been completed.

Now to creating your payment button. Log into your PayPal account and look for "Merchant Tools". This will open up a choice of "Shopping Cart", "Pay Now Buttons" or "Subscriptions or recurring Payments"

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

If your page is just selling one item and it is a one-time sale you would choose the buy now button. Having your page focus on just one item can be an advantage to selling. When the customer clicks on the buy now button they are taken directly to PayPal to complete the purchase.

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.

Once the details are filled in PayPal provides you with an encrypted script that you need to install on your sales page. You will need to position it where you want the payment button to appear.

Using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, scroll down the page to where you want the button to appear. Now click your mouse here so that the cursor is blinking where the button is to appear. Create a table. Click your mouse inside the table, and change the view to code view. You should now see the cursor blinking in the code. Make sure you have copied the PayPal code to the clipboard of the computer. Click on "Edit" and then "Paste". This will insert the PayPal code into your page. If you need to center it just use center as you would text.

Now go to browser view and check how it will look on line.

You have now successfully inserted a payment button into your site.