Website help

[L J]

ok....well ive got someone else doing the site now as they wanted practice......

so how can people pay, without paypal etc sucking money out of it, as this would be a one person business i wasnt planning to add much more onto the price i could get it at...so i wouldnt want paypal to automatically add 10% cos that sucks giant hairy balls.
i guess the only ways are direct bank transfer or cheque.....but i doubt many people would do that, so what can i do?

 

[John C]

Get in touch with your bank.

 

[Ben Frain]

Originally posted by cockersrule
ok....well ive got someone else doing the site now as they wanted practice......

so how can people pay, without paypal etc sucking money out of it, as this would be a one person business i wasnt planning to add much more onto the price i could get it at...so i wouldnt want paypal to automatically add 10% cos that sucks giant hairy balls.
i guess the only ways are direct bank transfer or cheque.....but i doubt many people would do that, so what can i do?

In all probabillity, you're probably not ready to go into business then. Everything is business costs, nothing is free. Like Philip said, you've got to speculate to accumulate. If it was simple everyone would be doing it

 

[L J]

looked at the paypal site, they want about 5.5%+£.40 for each transaction......i guess ill have to look at prices, and see what difference it would make.....

 

[liamliddy]

cockers... depends if you use a personal account or not, if you get the people paying you to send the money with the money they already have in their paypal accounts then there will be no charge, just dont upgrade to business account when it asks you as i bloody did and been paying fees since, well ive charged buyers the fees

 

[L J]

if i want to accept credit cards i gotta upgrade to business account, otherwise people would have to sign up to paypal just to buy stuff....

 

[liamliddy]

well thats ur only option then or let them sign up unles your going to be inundated with orders you should be able to email each one etc tell them what to do let me know if ur website gets going

 

[TOOLE]

Havng just started a company, i know that you need to register before you can do anything. Tht's £80 registration.

Then you need to open a bank acount (natwest ans HSBC are nice people, we went with HSBC).

You then need to talk to your bank about taking net card orders, the only way that they are going to give you this right away with no premises or anything is to buy an off the shelf web packeage. There is about £500 gone right away, but it is a worthwhiile investment (even if your business goes tits up, you have loads of shiny stuff!!)

Good luck mate

 

[QuackingPlums]

Originally posted by John[SAD]
vi beats notepad any day

Pah, I smirk at your vi... gimme emacs any day... and a webserver written in AWK

Registration fees vary depending on where u go, but £80 is about right. Again, I wouldn't bother with anything such as Actinic unless u have a large catalogue cos not only do you pay for the software package, you also have to pay per transaction too (unless that's changed since I last looked at it).

I'm pretty harsh on PayPal (rightfully, cos they're a bunch of money-grabbing b*stards) but it IS pretty easy to setup a store with them. You can either handle the basket yourself and have them process the total of its contents for you, or have little PayPal-branded "add to basket" buttons which add items to a basket that they provide. The second option is easier, but it means the basket pages themselves are less likely to match the rest of your site.

The biggest problem I've found with PayPal is that they offer you NO protection whatsoever when it comes to credit card fraud. I'm not going to explain it here cos you'll all be trying it out, but suffice to say, don't send anything out until you're absolutely sure the information you've got checks out

PayPal are NOT a bank, and therefore are not subject to the strict laws that govern banks and how they deal with transactions.

From memory, the "per transaction" charge of WorldPay is even higher.

 

[liamliddy]

qp pmd u m8