Choosing an e-commerce partner. Who can I trust?
by David Collado

A quick and easy way to start accepting credit cards online is PayPal. PayPal utilizes the worlds most advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create a safe, global, real-time payment solution allowing your customers to pay securely and easily.

Nevertheless one might wonder if its unprofessional to ask their users to register
through PayPal in order to pay. Then again with a growing client base of more than 71 million users in 56 countries featuring multiple currencies, the question really might be why did we wait so long to start taking PayPal.

Case in point our very own website template shopping cart that up to very recently only accepted credit card purchases is now equip to offer PayPal as an alternative. With a very simple integration to our existing shopping cart application customers now can choose PayPal to purchase website templates, flash templates, osCommerce templates or anyone of our products.

The process is really very simple too. Our customers browse through our templates as normal, and whenever they want to add a new item to their cart theyre asked to choose if they would like to use PayPal as their payment type, thus adding the new template to our PayPal shopping cart. For a closer look at our method visit
www.foamers.net/sample.php

The moral of the story is PayPal is simply a widely accepted practice that many customers will feel very comfortable with. This might be because PayPal is now and eBay company and everyone has heard of eBay and that might seems more secure somehow. Whatever the case may be Ill tell you this, since we began taking PayPal our website template sales have nearly doubled.

Also PayPal website payments standard is integrated with hundreds of popular shopping carts you can view a full list of PayPal-compatible carts at paypal.com along with a good number of walkthroughs on how to integrate PayPal payment processing with your own individual storefront.

Remember with the addition of any new changes to your website an adequate number of (how to) links with instructions and screen shots of your new application is highly recommended.

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