Do you work with out of town clients but lack a merchant account? I have recently secured two out-of-state clients from my website. Before I start on a case, I require an initial down payment; but, I don’t have a merchant account set up to accept credit cards. So I started thinking about convenient ways these clients could make a payment. (After standing in line for 30 minutes to pick up a payment from Money Gram, I really started thinking about better ways.) I immediately thought about PayPal.

PayPal allows you to send money to people and make payments for purchases but it also has a shopping cart feature. The shopping cart feature allows for you to set up a button on your website to sell multiple items at a time, sell one item at a time, collect recurring or subscription fees, or accept donations.

Setting up a PayPal account is easy and it’s free. PayPal does charge a service fee like any other merchant account provider does.  Click on the banner below to set up your account now.