E-Commerce
Devious Fish offers e-Commerce for small businesses. Using either PayPal™ or Google™ for payment processing, you can sell your products on your web site. Both processors accept a number of payment formats, and profit by taking a portion of the sale– avoiding recurring costs when business is slow.What Devious Fish will build is the store– a web site allowing users to browse and select items for purchase. Order processing is handled by the payment processor, including tracking shopping cart contents, taking payment, and tracking the sale after completion.
The two payment processors provide similar capabilities with subtly different features. The table below summarizes some of the differences.
| PayPal™ | Google™ |
|---|---|
| Pay by Credit card, debit card, or bank account. | Pay by credit or debit card only. |
| Standard HTML works on all browsers. | Utilizes JavaScript to provide a slick user interface, but has compatibility problems on Opera and doesn't work without JavaScript. |
| Several currencies | USD and British Pound only |
| 0.30+2.9% (lower with enough volume) | 0.35+2.9% (lower with enough volume) |
| Supports subscriptions | No subscriptions |
| Table-lookup based on value, number of items, or weight to find shipping cost | Carrier-calculated shipping uses item weights and queries delivery company to compute shipping cost. |
| Funds placed in PayPal account. By request, can be direct deposited to a bank account, mailed via a check, or spent via PayPal or via a debit cart. | Payments deposited to a bank account periodically. |
I'll be glad to help you decide which payment system is right for your business, and help you expand your market on-line. Contact me to get started.
