Accepting Credit Cards at Your Website

If you are doing business on the worldwide web and need to accept payments, there is no change in how the credit card system works ... you just need a means for capturing the credit card information and submitting it to your processor. Obviously, your customer won't be able to swipe his or her own card or provide it to you physically, so he or she will simply enter the credit card data. You have security issues that you will need to discuss with a person experienced in web-payment issues and technology, and you will want to decide whether the data will come to you and then you will manually submit the order information to your processor, or whether you want to incur the expense of equipping your site with the capability of automatically submitting orders to the processor for approval and payment. Talk to the person that designs your website as well as your processor.

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