Payment Gateways
How to set up a payment gateway for my E/course is often a common and challenging question almost everyone faces when they come to that stage in their E/course creation. Unfortunately there’s no way around it as otherwise there is no way you can get paid for your service and product unless you do.
Having said that it’s not that daunting once you watch videos and training on what to do—it doesn’t take long and in most occasions if you have a membership site the process is all explained and you’re shown what to do. All you have to do is follow each step.
Payment gateways differ but when integrating with your membership site it’s all basically the same process. In short you have to signup first with one of the payment providers such as PayPal for example, who collects and pays your customers for the purchase and also other people with whom you do your business. Then once you have done that and set up an account then it’s over to your membership site to do the rest.
In the website part it involves integration with your payment provider and also the actual setting up of the payment process such as buttons, and single, or one-off payments, and recurring payments for either a payment plan or monthly payment membership subscription.
If it’s an e-commerce site then the payment process can be a little different such as in “woo-commerce” for example or “shopify” where the payment integration process involves the taking of orders, and shipment processing, and cataloguing can be a bit more involved, however with any e/course system it’s much easier and once again the membership site with whom you go with such as for example Optimize Member who are the membership software providers I personally use have all tutorials on how to do the actual process and setting it all up.
When integrating membership payment usually the person unless it’s a free membership at level one, will at the end of purchasing your E/course be directed to the registration page where they can register as a member and after creating a username and password from an e-mail they receive be able to gain access to the member’s area.
At first it can be a bit bewildering however once each part of the whole payment process is done, from then on it’s easy enough then to simply create the payment buttons, or copy and paste already done for you buttons provided by the payment gateway processor or membership site software provider you want when you set up your member’s area.
Once you have your payment gateway integration complete and processing all set up on-site everything from then on is simply automated and it should take care of itself with all that needs doing from then on is from time to time maintaining and checking data related to sales, and testing out for ways to add or improve basic design, or price, or positioning of your call to action buttons and payment tags.
A final note when choosing a payment gateway provider for your membership site—usually there will be a number of company merchants to choose from. Some are more popular than others, however a point to remember is that all of the most notable ones will have a secure payment system that prevents any security breaks so even though all will have secure servers some will be better than others, so it’s best to go with the reputable ones which you can find simply by doing a Google search on “reviews about payment gateway providers”.
If you like to find out more with regards to e/course creation and online business then please have a look at Your E/course Blueprint
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