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		<title>Ultra Tiny Fee For Small Transactions in “Complete” Selling Plan!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW: our fee for transactions of 0-5 USD amount is just 0.55 USD.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us introduce a special thing for you if your products are priced between 0 and 5 USD. Without further ado, our fee for transactions of 0-5 USD amount is just <strong>0.55 USD</strong>.</p>
<p>That’s right, for just <strong>0.55 USD</strong> per sale your products will have credit card and PayPal payment options, full affiliate program, real-time reports and absolutely no other fees.</p>
<p>Whether you sell a small software, mobile app, an ebook or report, design/tech quick jobs, etc. this is a great deal for you.</p>
<p>You won’t have to pay for declined transactions, only for successfully completed sales. No monthly fee, no registration fee, no upgrade or support fees. Sell a 5 USD product 10 times? OK, we will charge you just 5.5 USD. No $50 registration, $100 setup and $30/mo non-sense.</p>
<p>Please note that this pricing is available on a request, just <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/customer-support/click2sell-related-questions.html" target="_blank">drop us a message</a> that you would like to have this pricing. Then we will apply it for your account.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.click2sell.eu/signup-click2sell.html" target="_blank">Join us!</a></p>
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		<title>Stripe + Affiliates = YES</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add your Stripe account into your Click2Sell account and have full affiliates tracking, nice real-time reports, easy products managements, etc.]]></description>
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<p>We are glad to welcome Stripe to our “family”! Click2Sell system already supports 12 merchant account providers (<a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/payment-processors.html">full list here</a>) which means that if you have, let’s say, a PayPal or Authorize.net account, then you can accept payments from your customers directly to these accounts, have full affiliates tracking, nice real-time reports, easy products managements and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>Now you can have <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-products-online.html">all these benefits</a> for your Stripe account too! Add your Stripe account into your Click2Sell account and this is what you get immediately:</p>
<ol>
<li>Full affiliate tracking. Don’t be alone in promoting your services or products. Now others can do this job for you and you won’t overspend for their advertising campaigns! Why? That’s because you will have to pay commissions only for fully completed sales. Actually, you might just leave your product/service advertisement to others altogether, yet have full details of how each of your affiliates perform.Let’s see, a nice day of 100 new sales to your Stripe account? Just log in to your Click2Sell account and get a full report of who of your affiliates are responsible for this successful day.</li>
<li>Easy products management. Click on “Add product”, spend 1 minute for going through all the options and then add its newly generated buy button or link to your product website. That’s it. No manual coding or other technical hassle. All purchase forms, checkout pages, custom purchase questions, delivery of product file will be automatically and immediately provided to you.</li>
<li>Real-time reports. Details of each of your customers? Stats of today sales or visitors? Day-by-day breakdown of your sales? Sources of your website visitors? Conversions of different products or plans? Yes, of course, you get all this stuff.</li>
</ol>
<p>Our fees for all this? Just one, two or three bucks for a completed sale. No registration, monthly, upgrade, support or any other kind of fees. Don’t worry about that. Actually, considering that affiliates will drive you sales, their referred additional income will completely cover our fees.</p>
<h3>How to begin</h3>
<p>Here’s how you add your Stripe account into your Click2Sell account in a couple of minutes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Register (<a href="https://www.click2sell.eu/signup-click2sell.html">signup link</a>) and log in to your Click2Sell account;</li>
<li>Go to My Profile -&gt; My Payment Processors page;</li>
<li>Choose Stripe in Step1 to add it;</li>
<li>Choose Stripe in Step 2 in credit card slot to activate it.</li>
</ol>
<p>That’s it, you can start adding your products in “For Vendors” section, putting their buy links into your product website and profit.</p>
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		<title>Sell Your Products in Digital Products Friendly Service Instead of Cautious, Documents Burden Credit Card Gateways</title>
		<link>http://www.click2sell.eu/blog/selling/sell-your-products-in-digital-products-friendly-service-instead-of-cautious-documents-burden-credit-card-gateways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have created a great software or ebook product that you would like to sell online... However, your business is new and you can't get a payment processing service. Don't worry - there is a solution for you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have created a great software product and would like to sell it online to earn some money or start your own software company business. You have created a great looking website, your software has a huge demand on the market and you are ready to sell it. But how to accept payments you&rsquo;re your customers? You need to get a <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-software-online.html">credit card and Paypal processing solution</a>&hellip; But where and how?</p>
<p>In order to start selling your own software or any other digital products (ebooks, membership website, etc.) online, you need to get a real merchant account from the acquiring bank so that you could accept credit card payments on your website. Usually this process takes a lot of time:</p>
<ol>
<li>You need to<strong> fill out the lengthy bank forms </strong>telling about your product, sales volumes, provide personal information about your company.</li>
<li>You need to <strong>scan and send your company&rsquo;s documents</strong> to the bank. In addition to this you <strong>need to provide the notarized copies </strong>of your passport, identity and other documents.</li>
<li>You need to <strong>provide a professional business plan </strong>to the bank explaining how your software company operates and how you will sell your product online.</li>
<li>You will have to <strong>tell the bank everything about your customers</strong>: your target market and major countries.</li>
<li>Even more &ndash; you will <strong>have to provide your own payment processing history</strong>. The bank will ask about your sales volume, number of transactions processed per month and overall amounts.</li>
<li>Banks usually go for a <strong>long process of document&nbsp;and track record verifications</strong>. They will even check your credit scores and credibility ratings on credit score agencies.</li>
<li>The <strong>viability of the business lifecycle and the profitability is also verified </strong>before approving the merchant account.</li>
</ol>
<p>These criteria might not be a problem for an already established and working companies, however&hellip; If you are just starting out with your first software product and your company is new &ndash; you have no business history, no credibility, nor turnover, payment processing history. Then it will be almost impossible for you to open a merchant account for your new online business, because the majority start up, small businesses fail to meet all the requirements. So it&rsquo;s like a never ending circle: you&rsquo;re new &agrave;you don&rsquo;t have payment processing history &agrave;you can&rsquo;t get a merchant account &agrave;can&rsquo;t start processing credit card payments &agrave;no turnover &agrave;no ability to get going, because no bank will talk to you.<br />
	However, there is still a solution for you&hellip;</p>
<ol>
<li>Just <a href="https://www.click2sell.eu/signup-click2sell.html">register on Click2Sell</a>&nbsp;and login to your account. Go to <strong>For Vendors </strong>page and</li>
<li>select the <strong>COMPLETE payment processing plan</strong>.</li>
<li>then visit <strong>For Vendor &#8211;&gt; Add Product</strong> section and enter your product&rsquo;s&nbsp; description along with all the details.</li>
<li>Place the provided payment button code on your online shop! That&rsquo;s all.</li>
</ol>
<p>Once your product is activated, you will be able to <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-products-online.html">accept credit card and Paypal payments</a>&nbsp;on your online shop along with other multiple payment options. The whole process takes than a few minutes and you can start processing within 24 hours instead of waiting a couple of months.</p>
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		<title>Accept Credit Card Payments: Why Customers Prefer Credit Cards Vs Other Payment Methods</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accepting multiple payment options is vital when you run an online business. Find out why accepting credit cards online is the most important thing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you do business online and <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-software-online.html">sell software</a> or any other products, the most important part of it is to be able to offer your customers the most convenient way to pay for their purchases. In the past decade, buying on-line has become a global trend, with millions of transactions happening every&nbsp;day. And, of course, the payment methods that customers use to pay for a product have diversified. In the beginning credit cards were the only option, but now there are several websites, such as PayPal or Moneybookers that offer other payment solutions and have become very popular. Some online vendors accept only these e-wallet payments without a direct credit card payment&nbsp;option without thinking that they might lose customers. Credit card payment is still&nbsp;a preferred payment method for most online customers.</p>
<p>Find out why customers use credit cards more often compared to other payment methods:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>No need to register anywhere</strong> &#8211; there is no need for a customer to register or have an account on any of the websites to complete the purchase (unlike with e-wallet payments).</li>
<li><strong>Fast and convenient </strong>&ndash; credit card transaction is processed within seconds once your customer enters card details on your checkout page.&nbsp;An order gets approved or declined instantly. Unlike with echecks or bank wire payments, the order can be shipped immediately after the payment, because the funds are deposited instantly to&nbsp;a vendors merchant account.</li>
<li><strong>Fraud protection</strong> -&nbsp;credit card companies offer customers a better protection against fraud and it enables you to chargeback if the merchandise is not what you expected. So customers are more protected when they buy online and they feel safe when ordering a product.</li>
<li><strong>Additional security layers </strong>-&nbsp;Visa and Mastercard have developed special <strong>Verified by Visa </strong>and <strong>Mastercard SecureCode </strong>programs that add an additional security layer for all card purchases. Once this feature is implemented, the customer is asked to provide a certain&nbsp;password during a purchase. This ensures the safety of an order &ndash; that card is used only by the authorised person. Customers feel safe when they order your product. It is proved that having this feature working on your website will bring you more sales. At the same time you &ndash; as a vendor &ndash; are protected from the majority of possible chargebacks with &lsquo;I didn&rsquo;t do it&rsquo; reason.</li>
<li><strong>Get rewarded -</strong>&nbsp;customers are also likely to get reward points from their credit card banks for using a card often, which can bring them benefits in the long run. So they prefer to use cards even more.</li>
<li><strong>Pay in credit -</strong>&nbsp;your customers can pay you using their credit card limit &ndash; even if they don&rsquo;t have enough funds at the moment by borrowing money from a bank. This increases your sales even more.</li>
<li><strong>Get more international customers -</strong>&nbsp;if you sell online internationally then your foreign customers will be more likely to pay using their credit cards than any other payment method. So it is a must for you to accept card payments in order not to lose potential customers.</li>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;Direct credit card payments account for around 50% to 85% of total online orders. This percentage depends on your industry and niche. If your product is more oriented&nbsp;towards the&nbsp;majority of people that don&rsquo;t spend much time online, then you will get much more credit card orders compared to Paypal or any other payments. Moreover, US based buyers tend to use more e-wallet type of payments compared to international customers &ndash; from the Western Europe, etc.</p>
<p>If you are serious about online business, you should be offering as many convenient payment methods as possible. This way your customers will have a better choice to complete their payment and they will select the most suitable payment method. Offering credit card payments along with Paypal will definitely increase your sales compared to only credit card payment option, so make sure your online shop always offer the most popular payment methods. Then your customers will not have any problem placing an order on your website.</p>
<p><strong>How to accept multiple payment methods on your website?</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Just <a href="https://www.click2sell.eu/signup-click2sell.html">register on Click2Sell</a>&nbsp;and login to your account. Go to <strong>For Vendors </strong>page and</li>
<li>select the <strong>COMPLETE payment processing plan</strong>.</li>
<li>then visit <strong>For Vendor &#8211;&gt; Add Product</strong> section and enter your product&rsquo;s&nbsp; description along with all the details.</li>
<li>Place the provided payment button code on your online shop! That&rsquo;s all.</li>
</ol>
<p>Once your product is activated, you will be able to <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-products-online.html">accept credit card and Paypal payments</a>&nbsp;on your online shop along with other multiple payment options.</p>
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		<title>How to Sell Software Online and Accept Credit Cards Even If You Cant Get a Merchant Account or Just Starting</title>
		<link>http://www.click2sell.eu/blog/selling/how-to-sell-software-online-and-accept-credit-cards-even-if-you-cant-get-a-merchant-account-or-just-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you are a software developer &#8211; created your own peace of software masterwork and now would like to show it to the world and make some money online selling it! That&#8217;s great&#8230; But the biggest hurdle you can face online today is that &#8216;starting point&#8217; &#8211; how to start selling online and accept credit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you are a software developer &ndash; created your own peace of software masterwork and now would like to show it to the world and make some money online selling it! That&rsquo;s great&hellip; But the biggest hurdle you can face online today is that &lsquo;starting point&rsquo; &ndash; how to start selling online and accept credit cards for your software products when you don&rsquo;t have any selling history, just starting out and nobody&nbsp;provides you with payment processing services.</p>
<p>This problem is the same problem like starting your own business from scratch &ndash; no capital, no gains, no possibility to start. Never ending circle that you can&#39;t get into&#8230; In order to sell your software product online, you need to have a special online merchant account to accept direct credit card payments from your customers. However, applying for a merchant account on the bank is a real headache, because:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>You&rsquo;re just starting</strong> &ndash; you have a great software product that you would like to sell online, however your business is new, so you have no business history. All banks will say &ndash; sorry, the doors are closed for you.</li>
<li><strong>Processing history:</strong> when you want to sell your software online, all banks ask you for a credit card processing history. You need to show the payment processing volumes that you do per month. But what can you show &ndash; only 0s everywhere, because you haven&rsquo;t even started? Sorry, a bank will say &ndash; no merchant account for you.</li>
<li><strong>Refund and chargeback rates should be low:</strong> all acquiring banks need to evaluate your processing risks and they need to see your chargeback levels (that they don&rsquo;t exceed 0.5-1% of all sales) and evaluate your refund rates. Again, what would you show them when you are not processing payments at all. Again &ndash; banks show you a big finger.</li>
<li><strong>Digital business risks:</strong> you have a great product and you are sure that it will sell online greatly, however all banks view your software selling business as a &lsquo;very high risk&rsquo;. You are exposed to many customers returning the product and asking for a refund. They don&rsquo;t know how you manage your customers&rsquo; complaints and if you really return the funds for unsatisfied ones. Selling software products is viewed as a high risk online business by most banks. They&nbsp;can&#39;t be sure that you will deliver your product, etc.&nbsp;This doesn&rsquo;t help you start processing payments online.</li>
<li><strong>Show your business license:</strong> some banks might even ask you to show your business licenses and software registration documents, patents or other documents. They usually require your financial documents of the company &ndash; profit and loss statements, shareholder information and business activity records. This doesn&rsquo;t help you when you are a single developer or a small company looking to start selling online your newly developed software program.</li>
<li><strong>Time consuming process: </strong>you might have heard of merchant accounts getting approved within 24 hours! However, this is a total non-sense. Yes, you might get your software&rsquo;s website checked within this time period, however, the problem is that after this you will be required to provide a ton of company documents, licenses, registration certificates, your personal details. Once the bank receives such documents they go over everything thoroughly, check your credit rating, query some credit agencies for your company&rsquo;s financials or to check the validity of your provided documents. This approval process usually takes from 2-3 weeks up to 6 months. Usually it takes around 2 months to have everything signed and a&nbsp;merchant account working&hellip; Some products (especially software) has time sensitive offers. You can&rsquo;t let yourself wait so much time&hellip;</li>
<li><strong>Integration headache: </strong>even if you manage to go all this bureaucracy nightmare and you get a merchant account, then you need to hire developers to integrate your website directly to the bank&rsquo;s raw payment gateways to accept your orders.</li>
</ol>
<p>Getting a merchant account to accept credit cards online for your software product is a real time consuming and daunting task&hellip; However, the good news is that there is a simple solution for this problem. Instead of trying to get a merchant account, just signup on Click2Sell. We will sell your product and accept credit card and Paypal payments. You won&rsquo;t need to open a merchant account, nor hire developers to integrate your website into the banks&#39; payment gateways.</p>
<p><strong>All you need to do is just to:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.click2sell.eu/signup-click2sell.html">signup on Click2Sell</a></strong>, then login to your account and navigate to <strong>For Vendors </strong>section and</li>
<li>select the <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/blog/merchant/complete-affiliate-management/"><strong>COMPLETE payment processing</strong></a>&nbsp;model.</li>
<li>then go to<strong> For Vendor &#8211;&gt; Add Product</strong> section and enter your software program&rsquo;s details &ndash; put your online software for sale on Click2Sell.</li>
<li>Place the provided payment button code on your product&rsquo;s sales page and you are done!</li>
</ol>
<p>You will be able to accept credit card and Paypal payments from your customers and <a href="http://www.click2sell.eu/en/sell-software-online.html">sell software online</a>. We will pay all your earnings to your Paypal, Moneybookers or direct wire-transfer bank account. Click2Sell affiliates will help you make even more sales and your business profits will soar!</p>
<p>Sometimes when you face a hurdle, you think that it&rsquo;s over&hellip; Not! Never give up, because there is always a solution waiting for you &ndash; you just need to find it.</p>
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