Enabling Credit Card Payments
In order to accept credit cards directly, you will need a merchant account, and access to 1 of our supported payment gateways. You will then need to enable each credit card that you want to accept in the Payment Methods table, and enable your Payment Gateway. There are alternatives to having a merchant account that allow your customers to pay you via another company's website - PayPal Website Payments Pro, PayPal Website Payments Standard, Amazon Simple Pay, Checkout by Amazon, and Google Checkout are among these.
- Secure your website
Before you can accept credit card payments, you need to make sure your website is secure. Access to an SSL certificate is needed in order to encrypt data that is sent to and from your web site. This will prevent thieves from intercepting credit card information in transit. See the SSL topic in the glossary for more information.
- Enable Payment Method Record
Open the Payment Methods table, and check the Enabled field on each payment method you wish to support. For a full explanation of the fields on a Payment Method record, see the Payment Methods > Record Overview topic in this section.
- Enable a Payment Gateway
In order for you to receive payment, you will need to enable a payment gateway.
Instructions for enabling a Payment Gateway are in the Payment Gateway section of this documentation.
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