What payments options are available for accepting payments on my website?
You may choose one or more of the following options already supported by your website;
A. Credit Cards – Real-time payments via eWAY
- This is the easiest and the most seamless solution for your customers paying with credit cards
- Your customers stay on your site for making payments and receive instant payment confirmation
- Your website supports the eWAY (CVN XML) solution and once eWAY is setup it takes just a few minutes to set it up on your site
- More information on eWAY including costs are available on www.eway.com.au
- If you have any questions about setting up Internet merchant accounts with your bank, eWAY can guide you with the process and requirements
B. PayPal – PayPal Account & Credit Cards via PayPal
- PayPal is a flexible solution that caters to many users worldwide that pay using their PayPal accounts
- Credit card payments can also be accepted through PayPal if you choose to provide this option
- Your website supports the PayPal Website Payments Standard solution
- This option results in customers leaving your website during the checkout process to go the PayPal’s website for payment
- Users are then returned to your website once the transaction has been completed
- This is a longer process for your customers.
- Also, if customer close the PayPal window during or straight after payment without returning to the site then we cannot verify the transaction
- More information on PayPal including costs is available here.
- If you wish to setup the PayPal solution, please let us know and we will send you instructions for setting up PayPal with your website
C. Direct Transfer – Electronic Funds Transfer via online banking
- You can give customers the ability to pay directly into your bank account from their bank accounts
- The biggest difference compared to the above two options is that this is NOT a real-time payment
- It means that your website cannot confirm that a payment has been made successfully when an order is submitted
- You will need manually verify if payment has been received in order to process an order in your website
- Your website gives you the ability to enable this option in the shopping settings area
- You can enter your banking details that need to be displayed during checkout including any other instructions or information
D. Cheque
- You can give customers the ability to pay using cheques
- This is an offline payment option
- So you will need to manually verify if a cheque has been successfully banked in order to process an order
- Your website gives you the ability to enter instructions for this payment option
E. Custom Method
- This option gives you the ability to define a different offline payment method that you support
- This is typically an option to pay an “Invoice” or “Cash on Delivery or Pick Up”, etc.
- Again, the website cannot verify such payments so you will need to manually verify payments for such orders in your website
- Your website gives you the ability to create a customised title and description / instructions for this payment option
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The process of setting up payment options such as eWAY or PayPal can take from a few days to a few weeks depending on your circumstances. We suggest selecting a payment method and starting the process for these solutions as soon as possible so that there are no hold-ups when your site is ready to go live or when you are ready to start selling online.
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