How to sell stuff on your website

[avalon37]

I have a website that currently is all content, but I am looking into selling product on it as well. Pretty sure my options are as follows:

Easiest: have them email me and have them send me a bank check. Pretty much the Craigslist format.

Easy #2 option: PayPal

Most ideal but most complicated: secure credit card processing. Anyone set this up? I'm sure my web host offers this. I wonder how expensive it would be. My concern is that I will limited quantities of items and I need to prevent people buying products that are really "sold out".

Appreciate thoughts - especially on the credit card option as I want to appear as professional as possible.

[tigger]

if it was me use PP its cheap and quick - if the site takes off and more people start buying from you you can consider options

[Propools]

Credit Card Options:
1) Google Checkout
2) Use a service like Authorize.net

When items are sold out just take the "buy" button off that item(s).

[dpd1]

PP

[gabby]

If you are only selling one item at a time PayPal works great.

But if you need to sell multiple items you will need something more. You should take a look at Paypal Website Payments Pro. It is more like a full-blown merchant account and buyers don't get re-directed to Paypal to complete payment. It is around $30 a month.

[pdinis]

Hello,

Shopify is interesting for a low volume start-up operation ?
Paypal professional tool is quite similar is it not ?

Thanks

[ergophobe]

As pdinis said, take a look at hosted solutions like Shopify and Business Catalyst and things like that (Big Commerce?). That offloads the admin headaches and security updates and lets you focus on selling stuff.

[lorax]

Another option would be to look into FoxyCart - you build the catalog the way you like it. They'll provide you the cart and checkout flow which you can make look pretty much any way you'd like.

[System]

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[jrockfl]

I would suggest starting off with PayPal and if things pickup look into adding Authorize.net

That is how I got started. I only had 1 product at first.
Now that I have more, I offer both regular checkout with credit card, PayPal, and recently added a Money Order option.