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Yesterday’s world included the credit card terminal with credit card processors when it came time for accepting credit cards. Today many transactions are completed on the online payment gateway by companies that now accept credit cards online.

So what are your key options for online payment methods in today’s world?

Several companies that will allow your business to allow your customers to use credit cards include but are not limited to:

1. AcceptPay.com
2. PayPal.com
3. BankOfAmerica.com

Personally speaking I prefer to use PayPal for my own ability to accept credit cards online for several reasons including:

• PayPal offers excellent merchant services focused on online payment methods
• PayPal creates an online credit card terminal full of products and services for your Website.
• PayPal allows you to sell on eBay as part of your online payment gateway.
• PayPal’s industry solutions will have you accepting credit cards online with a focus on security.

Simply put when it comes to online marketing PayPal credit card processors make extreme sense, but why take my word for it when we can take a deeper look for greater understanding?
Let’s do that now.

 

Accepting Credit Cards With PayPal Merchant Services

 

Over 8 million businesses process credit cards using the secure services available from PayPal. Even if you have never worked with the tools available from PayPal it is easy for you to join PayPal and be setup to accept your first payment online today.

 


I remember when I first used PayPal, sure there is a bit of a learning curve, but it is small. PayPal makes it extremely easy for even most novices to work through the hassles of setting up payment processing online. After all, it is their focus so why wouldn’t they be the best at providing online services for your company to succeed?

Three cool ways of using PayPal merchant services include:

• Turning your Website into a credit card processing center. The best part is your customers don’t even need to have their own personal PayPal account to purchase your items though many may choose to set that up as part of the process.
• Using PayPal to create a virtual terminal that can be used when people call in phone orders reduces the sometimes costly expense of card swipe machines.
• Send an invoice via eMail which includes a “pay now” button right on the form for added convenience and have your clients paying for their purchases much faster.

Simply put, merchant services available from PayPal simply make sense when doing business online.

 

PayPal Products & Services

Understanding the variety of products and services available from PayPal could easily take up its own separate article or even more, so I’ll provide a brief outline here and let you investigate PayPal itself for a more comprehensive review of their products and services.

1. Choose between the “standard” and “pro” options for accepting payments on your Website.
2. Process those payments from the comfort of your very own internet merchant account.
3. Issue rewards, rebates, commissions and other types of payments quickly using mass payments from PayPal.
4. Brand your processing center with a PayPal option even if you already use some other tool for credit card processing. Increasing options for credit card purchases with the trusted PayPal brand is sure to reflect positively on all your sales.
5. Include online invoicing and/or virtual terminals to make it even easier for your clients to do business with you and your company.

 

Sell On eBay With PayPal

With PayPal you can sell on the world’s largest online marketplace seamlessly as well as anywhere else you may prefer. PayPal goes far beyond just providing you with the ability to accept credit cards on eBay and at a low cost to boot.

Here are just some of the reasons people prefer to run their eBay business using PayPal.

• eBay has over 90 million buyers within 39 countries so you’ll likely find your niche.
• Providing eBay buyers with the ability to use debit or credit cards is sure to cause a positive result with most all your sales.
• PayPal gives you the ability to ship and track your items quickly right online.
• No matter if you are working from home, office or in your automobile the safety and convenience of PayPal let’s you sell most anything from practically anywhere.
• PayPal’s seller protection plan combined with 24/7 fraud screening removes the stress and let’s you relax knowing that all your transactions are covered.
• All that and PayPal let’s you accept payments in multiple currencies too!

Clearly, if you are serious about selling on eBay or anywhere else online then you need to check out PayPal today.

 

PayPal Industry Solutions

Still wondering if PayPal is the right solution for your operation?

Here are 6 areas where PayPal is perfect.

• Nonprofit
• Digital Goods
• Education
• Political Campaigns
• Government
• Financial Institutions

If your concept for doing business even remotely falls into any of the categories listed above you owe it to yourself to checkout PayPal today. Should you believe that your product or service does not match these above areas still compare the services available for online business from PayPal with those of other companies and I believe you will be pleasantly surprised.

 

Summing Up PayPal

If you want to turn your business into an online payment gateway, and who doesn’t in today’s world? If you desire to avoid expensive credit card terminals with costly credit card processors? If you are ready to ramp up your business and accept credit cards online? Then turn to PayPal online payment methods and start accepting credit cards today.

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Picking up where the last post left off, the ideal market for mobile payment systems should have three characteristics:
  • Rapidly rising income levels (demand is high)
  • Small internet footprint, and even smaller e-commerce footprint (supply is low)
  • Large mobile penetration (potential is large)
Countries like India and Brazil provide great markets to test products before moving them more broadly to other markets.

The basic requirements for mobile payments systems include:
  • Ease of use. No-hassle account setup and configuration.
  • Wide device support. In developing economies this means not required data-enabled phones to provide the service.
  • Built-in security. Specially important if service is provided on non-data-enabled phones.
  • Flexible payment options. This includes support for different credit/debit cards, links to bank accounts and stored value (pre-paid) options.
  • Localization. Gaining wide user adoption will require localization features, including language support and tie-ins to local payment processing (regional banks, microcredit organizations).
  • Leverage existing infrastructure. Critical to building a large merchant base quickly is to make it as easy as possible for them to accept the new payment form factor using their existing technology investments, where possible.
The key shift is to use mobile payments as a "leapfrog" technology rather than a substitute technology. In other words, move the market from online last-click replacement to physical store retailing, or TV-based retailing.

There are two small entrants into the market, recently VC-funded, that I'm aware of:
  • Paymate: Kleiner Perkins invested $5M. Broad device coverage (works on SMS), but only for Citibank customers.
  • Ji Grahak: Helion Ventures invested $2M. Broad financial institution coverage, but requires a credit card and requires a GPRS java-enabled phone.
How far off do you think Google Checkout for Mobile is? And where do you think they will launch?