Processing a Credit Card
Internet-based Methods |
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There are many pieces to the puzzle but we provide
all the pieces and integrate your processing method
into a solution. |
The Payment Gateway
In any merchant card, processing the card always
represents the difference form one type of merchant
account and the next. Generally with an Internet
Merchant account, you will use a gateway. We
support a variety of gateways but the one we
currently recommend for the lowest fees is
AuthorizeNet.
The Virtual Terminal
A virtual terminal is provided with your
AuthorizeNet Gateway. The virtual terminal allows
you to process a credit card "offline" for the
one-off phone in order any Internet merchant will
still receive. It also allows you to batch
reoccuring charges, process refunds, void
transactions or other non-regular things that are
required to run an Internet business.
Website Hosting
You can host your website anywhere, however, we
recommend you host at our parent company web-hosters,
www.comcity.com.
This is because ComCity has been hosting websites
since 1995 via the
www.web-hosters.com platform. By combining
services such as hosting, shopping cart and merchant
account processing, we can provide a lower cost
platform.
Shopping Cart
We support all shopping carts that use AuthorizeNet,
however, the shopping cart we recommend is
SalesCart. Its one of the easiest to use
because it works right from within Microsoft
FrontPage, Microsoft Expression Web, and Macromedia
Dreamweaver. These are web design tools anyone can
use to create their websites so it allows shop
owners to keep control over their website look and
their products in-house without having to use an
outside web designer. The shopping cart
automatically links up your products with the
gateway so the credit card can be processed
automatically and most economically.
Buy Now Buttons
Sometimes you are only selling <3 products and a
shopping cart is not required. You may still wish
to use a shopping cart so all of the information
about a transaction can be accurately recorded and
shipping and taxes may be collected. However, in
very simple stores, only a buy-now button is
required and AuthorizeNet provides the ability to
add a simple buy-now button to your website and
create a simple storefront.
Yahoo Stores
Many merchants may wish to use Yahoo Stores instead
of a shopping cart or a buy now button to market and
sell their products. We also support Yahoo stores
as a method to sell your products as opposed to
using a Shopping Cart or a buy-now button.
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