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Printing Shipping Labels – the Pitney Bowes Blunder
Published on 2012-04-05 12:52:36
If you receive payment online for your ecommerce business, you probably have to print shipping labels everyday. Shipping by USPS for small packages is still a lot cheaper than UPS or Fedex. There are software like stamp.com or Pitney Bowes Shipstream (used to be until today). So I have been using Pitney Bowes ShipStream for [...] > read more
Paypal Seller Protection – How Paypal Screws you the Seller
Published on 2012-04-03 15:25:00
The truth about Paypal seller protection is that they want you, the seller, to pay them fees. The epic announcement of 100% seller protection is just a bait. Paypal claims to give you 100% seller protection if the shipping address is confirmed. The 100% protection is also applied to ALL transactions even for unconfirmed address [...] > read more
What are the Worst Countries to Send Orders to?
Published on 2011-09-30 14:18:45
Sending retail orders to international customers has become some kind of “niche” in internet selling. Many large online retailers do not accept international orders because they have plenty of domestic orders and they don’t have to take the risk. Aside from the messed-up USPS (US Postal service), the risk of international orders is supposedly greatly [...] > read more
Are all eBay Transactions Covered by Paypal Seller Protection?
Published on 2011-09-30 13:47:23
So Paypal offers “full” seller protection on all eBay transactions starting like 1-2 years ago. That makes eBay a lot more secure for sellers, especially for international orders. With each Paypal transaction, it will show “Eligible” even if the foreign address is unconfirmed. Compared with eBay sales, transactions on my website (outside of eBay) show [...] > read more
Choose a Good Processing Gateway with Your Merchant Account
Published on 2011-06-15 17:02:40
In most credit card merchant account with virtual terminals, there are 2 monthly fees. Generally one of the fees (around $10) goes to your credit card processing gateway. This is the process that reads from the virtual terminal (the web form that cus > read more
Paypal is a Reason You Should Have a Merchant Account
Published on 2011-05-17 23:20:59
Paypal is probably one of the easiest way to set your online business up to accept and process credit card transactions. You do not even have to set up a shopping cart. All you need is to copy and paste a piece of HTML code onto your website, and you > read more
Comparison Between Merchant Account, Paypal, Google Checkout
Published on 2010-12-25 01:14:26
Three of the major ways to accept payments online for your websites are credit card (merchant account), Paypal, and Google Checkout. It is always a good thing to make more options available for your customers. Obviously if you want people to pay you, > read more
Why Should you Accept Credit Card for Your Business?
Published on 2010-11-08 21:50:01
If you are running an e-commerce website selling merchandise or service, you might be asking yourself: should I get a credit card merchant account? I asked myself the same question for a few years before I “took the plunge” too. Of course > read more
What is a Credit Card Virtual Terminal with a Merchant Account?
Published on 2010-11-08 00:43:24
What is a credit card terminal? A credit card terminal is a small piece of equipment that is used to swipe credit cards (through). The terminal reads card holder’s information off the magnetic stripe (of the credit card) and sends it through a > read more