Sign up for a BCG Canada Inc.'s Professional Plan or higher
account to host your Web site. This gives you access to our SSL secure server so your
customers can enter their credit card or other payment information online in confidence
knowing that their information will be sent securely in an encrypted format which prevents
others from seeing their information.
If you're going to have more than just a single page of products, you should utilize a
shopping cart program or other more advanced e-commerce software. These software programs
keep track of your products and prices, implement a "virtual shopping cart",
calculate order totals and shipping costs, and integrate with online payment processing
services.
If you want to accept credit card payments, you will need to have your own merchant
account. A merchant account is a specialized business bank account which allows you to
accept credit card payments. Contact your local bank about the steps needed to set up a
merchant account.
In order to process a credit card to transfer payment from your customer's bank account to
your bank account, you need some kind of credit card payment processing solution. The most
efficient solution is an online payment processing service such as CyberCash. This will
allow you to accept (or deny) credit card payments in real time.
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