To begin receiving credit card payments online the easiest thing would be to sign up for a Premier account with Paypal (www.paypal.com/au). A Premier Paypal account allows you to receive credit card and other online payments into your Paypal account. Note that your customers are not required to have a Paypal account themselves to make payments. Funds in your Paypal account are accessed by transferring them to a linked bank account.

Fees are charged (taken out of the transaction) to receive funds via credit card and, in some instances, when transferring from your Paypal account to your bank account. More information can be found on Paypal's website at:

https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

Paypal's online transactions are identified by the email address you used when creating your Paypal account. It is thus important to setup your account with an email address that is clearly associated with your business or organisation. The address sales@yoursite.com is obviously better than johndoe@hotmail.com for your customer's peace of mind. Your mcWebs subscription includes several email accounts and we can setup one specifically for paypal on request.

Once your account is setup all we need is the email address you signed up with to begin linking your site with Paypal's e-commerce system.

Please note Managed Content Webs is not associated with Paypal nor receives any commission or other payments from them for this advice. We don't make any claims about their service beyond experience of clients using their services successfully.

If you outgrow Paypal you can order your own e-commerce system. To give you some idea of what this would involve you would requre: a merchant account at your bank (allowing you to receive credit card payments), a merchant gateway (to provide online access to the credit card system) and e-commerce software added to your website. A budget of several hundred dollars per month would realistic.

More information can be provided on request by contacting us here.