Can I take credit card payments?
If you intend to start your own online business you will need to accept credit card payments. Fortunately it is not all that difficult to accept credit card payments on your website.
The best and the easiest way is to get in touch with a secure payment provider. Doing so has a couple of advantages the foremost being providing a secure payment environment to your customers. And the best part is that you will not have to incur the humongous cost of a secure payment server or a secure certificate because you can redirect the customers through the payment provider’s website. You can use their integration guides and tutorials to start.
One of the most popular services of this kind is PayPal which has a free setup. This service is easy to use very secure and very popular. Most people over the internet have heard about PayPal and trust the site with their transactions. Even though the service has free setup they do charge you for each transaction. So if you have a huge number of paid visitors this can be a little expensive.
There are other companies to choose from which do not charge a per transaction based fee but will charge you for the set up. Some of these companies are Worldpay, Protx and others.