Taking Credit Cards on Your Web Site

If you're here now, then you must be thinking about operating an e-commerce web site. You must also be considering taking credit cards on your web site.

Having the ability to take credit cards is almost a must to run a successful Internet business. (Don't want to take credit cards; click here.) Some 90% of on-line sales are paid by credit card, and the credit card sale is likely to be 4 times the amount of a sale made using alternate payment methods.

Credit cards help protect you, the owner, and your customer. They help the business owner by providing a reliable means to get the money from a sale. The transaction most often can be approved instantly online, so you know whether the customer has the money to pay for the purchase before you ship the order. Credit cards help the customer by providing a safe method to pay for a purchase online, since most customers never see the person behind the web site. Customers can feel safe that the credit card companies will protect them against fraud. That is also an advantage to business owners.

In addition, credit cards are easy to use for the customer, and in today's society where everything is done in an instant, you can bet that many customers are using them. Credit Cards may not be a requirement to run an e-commerce site, but you can be rest assured that if you don't take credit cards, some potential customers will leave your site to browse to a site that does.

In an effort to help you make your decision on whether or not to use credit cards, WE LOVE TEXAS has provided some information for you to read. Please browse through it and see what you would like to do.

What are the various methods of taking credit cards?

What are the general costs associated with taking credit cards?

How Secure is the WE LOVE TEXAS system for taking credit cards?

What methods does WE LOVE TEXAS support?

You do not have a Merchant Account - Capital Merchant Solutions
You do not have a Merchant Account - PayPal
You do have a Merchant Account - iTransact
You do have a Merchant Account - Using your own bank system

What other methods do you have in place if I do not want to take credit cards?

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