eCommerce Alternatives for Credit Card Processing?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 26, 2005 @03:55PM from the major-credit-cards-accepted dept.

A non-Anonymous Coward asks: "More and more these days, small businesses are selling their goods on the Internet, and are looking for a way to process their sales. Aside from purchasing a merchant account, and setting up systems that meet the requirements set forth by the payment processors, what alternatives do small business owners have? There are a few online companies that will process the money for you, and take a small portion of that, such as PayPal, authorize.net, 2checkout.com, and a few others, but what is the easiest to setup, with little hassle?"

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authnet is the way to go for many small businesses by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-26 16:15 · Score: 2, Insightful

It's easy to set up, is basically standard in most shopping carts, and is brain-dead easy to implement yourself (a simple form post to create new transactions or work with existing ones).

On the other hand, PayPal is nice and can actually function as a barebones shopping cart (think a couple dozen "Buy" buttons) and obviously they accept credit card payments.