How To Set Up A Free Telephone Payment system Your Business in 2018
In today’s home-based business blog post, we will be looking at the way you can get around using payment service providers to handle all your payment needs for your home-based business. I know for a fact if you have less than 10 employees in your business some payment service provider will see you as a risk and low return on their service and will not offer you the service in the first place. As the more employees, you have an agent processing your customers pay for your business the more the payment service providers can charge you per payment in 2018.
I believe I have found a cheaper option for you today and it will cost little or next to nothing to implement for your home based business today in 2018! For example, let say you are the owner of your home-based business and you employ 7 to 10 employees to work for your firm. You have an online store, a company website, and sale website which are linked to Paypal. But over time you have noticed that you are taking more and more calls from customer and processing payments over the telephone too by sending out order forms in the post.
There is a faster and cheaper way to do this and it means using your existing online store I personally use Opencart which is one of the fastest growing eCommerce systems for business who wish to open their very own online store today in 2018. With Opencart unlike other forms of an online store where you have to pay either a monthly subscription which is true for Shopify and most other or pay a percentage of your product sale which again is true for Paypal. Now the difference with Opencart hence its popularity is that you do not pay a monthly subscription or a percentage of your sales to Opencart, not at all. How Opencart makes their money is charging a one-time fee for you to buy their themes which you do need in order to set up you Opencart, some themes can cost $39 to $59 right up to $89 to install.
The beauty of this system is very clear from the outset which is that no matter how many payments you process per day you pay no monthly subscription or percentage of your sale to the owners of Opencart to use their online store platform with eCommerce in 2018!
But this is not the best part of Opencart you see when you take payments over the telephone you can do this too and it is easy to do if you’re smart like I am. You see with Opencart you are allowed to process payment manually on the online screen option as if you are a customer trying to purchase a product or service online via an online shop. Now Opencart can also be used in the same way for payments made over the telephone, let say a customer call you on your business telephone number and say I want to buy your product her is the card details I can give you over the phone to process my order now.
So what you would do is very politely say I am now logging into the (company name) secure telephone payment system this may take a few seconds. Once you click on your online store, ask the customer on the telephone line which product he would like to buy. The customer may say I will like to buy this product and so on, then you will click on that product click Buy and process to cart. Once you in cart ask the customer the address details he or she would like the product delivered to, once this process is completed you then will be directed to the online payment screen.
In the payment screen, you will tell the customer that the call recording system, if you have one, will be placed on hold and I will be ready now to take your card details. Then you take the card details and process the order as normal always thank the customer for their service and hang up the call when the order has been processed successfully. This method I have used myself and I know many other people have also used to process orders over the telephone. The order is processed in the same way as if the customer was making the payment themselves on the internet via your online store, sale websites or other. But in this case, you have processed the customer order yourself manually online via your online store, sale websites or other with the card details provided to you by the customer.
Now you may be thinking how about products which are not listed in my online store but my company sells them through via a sale website with a PayPal link. well, you do the same process for the Paypal payment screen as you did for the Opencart, basically what you are doing is being as an official telephone payment agent for your business by manually processing the telephone payment via your online store, sale website or others manually in 2018.
The issue is not a lot of people know that they can do this or have never thought about it, as they believe that you need an expensive computer with a dedicated business telephone line and a chip and pin machine online 24/7. The truth is no you do not need all this and pay through the nose for it as there is a near to free service you can use today in 2018!
I hope you have found this home business blog post useful, any question, comments or feedback you may have please do leave your comments in the below comments section and we will try to answer all your question in regards to this article very soon.
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