12. E-commerce consultants - for selling online

1. You need the software added to your site to enable online purchasing.
This shopping cart software enables your customer to broach through your site and add items to the shopping cart basket. When the customer is ready, all the items are taken to the checkout where they are accosted. Once the customer agrees to the total price he is taken to the online authorisation company for payment.

2. You need a Merchant Account.
A Merchant Account involves a special type of arrangement with a bank or clearing house that allows you to accept credit card payments into a special bank account (your "Merchant Account"). The results of any credit card transactions are passed through your Online Authorisation Company are then credited to your account.

You can acquire the Merchant Account from your own high street bank, or contact us and we could probably help you.

3. You need an Online Authorisation Company to link between your website and your Merchant Account
The link to your Online Authorisation Company at the point of payment allows your customer to be discretely re-directed into the secure environment of the payment system. Security checks to validate the authenticity of the cardholder information are carried out. Then your Online Authorisation Company processes transactions by requesting authorisation from the appropriate bank and finally obtains confirmation that the bank has cleared the payment. Confirmation is given to your customer. The system can send an email to your customer to confirm transaction.
An e-mail can also be sent to you so that you are kept informed of any orders waiting to be processed. The payment, of course, is already transferring into your bank account.

All you then need to do is processes the delivery of the relevant goods or services.