A few days ago, I mentioned how I inject a message between my checkout button and the PayPal website to reinforce the customer's purchase decision while waiting for the PayPal site to come up (which often takes 5 or 10 seconds). Yesterday, I came across a tip from Glen Allsopp for customizing the next step...
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Payment Processing
We all love buying online to save on sales tax. But with state governments struggling to balance budgets and services getting slashed, more and more states are finding ways to get a piece of the pie. Several states have enacted the so-called "Amazon tax", requiring companies over a certain size with affiliates in the state...
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Ryan Lee just posted an email from his merchant account provider describing the rules they've put in place in response to the new requirements from VISA and MasterCard. (As far as I know, some of these rules are NOT mandated by VISA and MasterCard, but by his merchant account provider.) Personally, I think most of...
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I've been considering dropping ClickBank as a payment processor for CaRP Evolution. Today I ran the numbers to see how much it's costing me to use ClickBank vs. PayPal, and I thought I'd share. ClickBank Affiliate Tools How does a ClickBank affiliate get an advantage over competing affiliates? One way is to offer bonuses to...
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