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Author: Lee Blue
Watch out for gateway costs
If you are accepting credit card payments online, you are probably paying more fees than you think you are. When you signed up for your payment gateway and merchant account you probably saw compelling transaction rates and maybe even some “free” features like a free payment seal (that is just a picture). Beware, unless you know what to look for, you are virtually guaranteed to pay more than you are expecting. Here is a guide that will save you from getting hammered by unexpected expenses. Read more
Sell Your Benefits, Teach Your Features
If you have ever baked anything you know that you wouldn’t want to eat the raw ingredients by themselves. I absolutely love cinnamon buns, cinnamon sticks, cinnamon pies… In fact, I can be coerced into doing almost anything if I’m promised something made with cinnamon. But you can’t eat cinnamon by itself. You have to bake it into something before it is appealing. In the same way, you can’t sell a product based on the features. You have to bake your features into benefits.
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Payment Gateway vs Merchant Account
Updated: April 25, 2017
If you want to sell something online you need both a payment gateway and a merchant account. But, do you know the difference between a payment gateway and a merchant account? If you don’t, setting up an e-commerce website can get confusing and you could get hit with unexpected fees.
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How To Set Shipping Rates For Your Online Store
There are several options concerning how to charge for shipping with your online store. We’ll take a look at the common solutions and discuss the pros and cons of each.
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How Cart66 Protects You
You don't even need your own SSL certificate. See how (and why) Cart66 protects your business.
Security For WordPress
There are many ways to tighten up the security for your WordPress site and one of the most important ones is to make sure your WordPress login screen is secured. Some options for this include:
- Never using “admin” as your username
- Require a captcha to access your WP Login page
- Installing an SSL certificate and logging in over HTTPS
- Installing a security plugin that will do many of these things for you
Free WordPress E-commerce Themes
If you are using Cart66 Cloud, there are plenty of free WordPress e-commerce themes available to you. Cart66 Cloud does not require a special e-commerce WordPress theme in order to have a great looking online shopping cart.
WordPress E-commerce Hosting
Hosting e-commerce sites has always been difficult and expensive due to all of the requirements for PCI compliance. SSL certificates, security scans, allocating dedicated IP addresses, two factor authentication, disabling FTP and creating virtual private networks are just a few things required for PCI compliance. The cost of meeting these requirements is often far too expensive for the average guys who wants to sell some stuff on their WordPress websites.
Selling Digital Downloads With Cart66
Cart66 Cloud provides one of the best platforms to sell digital downloads on WordPress. If you have digital products or digital files that you want to sell, there are several important features you want to make sure you have in place. Cart66 Cloud handles all of them for you.
