Using Paypal As Your Ecommerce Web Hosting Solution

Contributed by Jeff Vdovjak

Using Paypal As Your Ecommerce Web Hosting Solution

PayPal can save you money by being an ecommerce solution in place of a more expensive ecommerce solution. While using PayPal (www.PayPal.com) does not fulfill your need for a web host it can greatly reduce your costs because you no longer need to look for an ecommerce web hosting package.

Why Use PayPal As Your Ecommerce Web Hosting Solution

For many small businesses or entrepreneurs, moving onto the web for the first time, payment can be a problem. Many smaller operations do not have payment gateways with credit card companies. That is to say that you do not have an agreement with any credit card companies (nor hardware or software) to be able to accept credit cards. PayPal solves this problem by allowing you to make credit card transactions through their services for a modest 49 cent transaction fee plus a small percentage of each sale.

While this solution could be a little more expensive than negotiating a contract with a credit card company it can be a whole lot easier!

PayPal & Your Cheap Web Host Fulfills Your Ecommerce needs

PayPal has many methods to integrate with your current web host (which means no expensive ecommerce hosting packages! ). Using the buy now or shopping cart functions can allow you to have your web site running in minutes. PayPal will automatically take orders, calculate shipping costs, re-bill for ongoing purchases, notify you the seller of the sale, and notify the buyer of a successful sale - all without your interaction.

PayPal has improved their service to allow customers who are not members of PayPal to make payments without signing up. This means no more lost sales due to sign up conflicts.

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