This is true if the shop is physical, with virtual shops you are trading your physical presence for the ability to trade 24 hours a day worldwide. If you restrict your ability to accept payment methods convenient to your audience you restrict your sales, all in all it is trade off between the hassle of taking online orders or potentially losing sales.
Phil. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:12:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My wife has asked me set up an online shop for her small craft supplies > > store. > > I'm a bit confused about why people are so hung up on internet payment > options. We already have a vast number of payment options which are > well understood and fully functional. Every shop must already be able > to process a reasonable number of these in order for the shop to work > at all so why should the internet be considered magical? > > * Come into the shop and pay cash > * Write a cheque (either post or over the counter) > * Postal money order > * Come into the shop and pay by credit card > * Give credit card details over the phone > * Direct bank deposit at any branch of your bank > * Direct bank transfer (at branch / phone bank / internet bank) > * Run an account with the shop and make monthly payments as per above > > If you accept some or all of the above already then just make a list > of the ways that people can pay and put the list on your website, > also put contact details so people can discuss options with you. > Thus solveth the internet payment gateway problem. > > What remains are three things: > > * Using a web page as advertising for your shop > * Using a web page as a public catalog of your products with prices > * Put an ORDER ENTRY system to onto a web page so the customers can > type in their own orders (and check for correctness). > > None of these have anything to do with payments. > > > - Tel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
