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One of the many challenges that most new internet entrepreneurs face is receiving payments via their site. When starting out most of us don't have a bottomless sack of money. How can you cheaply and securely receive payments? There are many payment processors on the internet. Some are cheaper than others. I'm going to highlight just one today. This one is free.

We're going to look at:

Where to get safe reliable credit card site payments

How to place the payment button into the web page.

PayPal: This is the free option. We will explore the free option here and in another article I will explore some of the good cheap options available. Go to PayPal.com and open a free account. You will need to verify yourself and PayPal will tell you what they expect for you to verify your identity. PayPal is a very secure and safe way to receive payments.

The first thing you will need to do is set up your download page. You will need the URL of this page in setting up the payment button. This the URL that your customers will be sent to after a successful payment has been made.

After opening an account and verifying it you will now be able to set up your payment buttons. Log into your PayPal Account and click on "merchant Tools" You now have a choice of "Shopping Cart", "Buy Now Buttons" and "Subscriptions and recurring Payments"

The Shopping Cart is used on sites that have a number of products to choose from. This allows the customer to decide to purchase something and then continue looking and buying other items, and then finally going to the checkout and paying for the items selected.

The Buy Now Buttons are for a single product on a sales page. This is the only product that is being sold on the page so the button sends the purchaser directly to PayPal for payment.

The Subscriptions and recurring Payments is similar to the buy now button in that only one product is being sold. The difference is that payments continue to occur. Here you also have a choice of monthly, weekly or yearly payments. You may set it up to expire after a number of payments or never expire.

Once you fill in the details of the product, PayPal produces an encrypted script you will need to install on the site where you want the button to appear.

Using any WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, scroll down your sales page to where the button is to go. Click the mouse so the cursor is blinking on the line where the sales button is to go and insert a table. Click inside the table. The cursor is now inside the table. Change to code view. Click on edit and paste the code from PayPal into where the cursor is blinking.

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

That's it! You are now able to receive payments on your site.
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