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More and more business are looking to increase sales revenues by selling online to an ever increasing customer base. However the process of setting up an E Commerce website and accepting payment over the internet can seem quite daunting.

We have recently been asked to conduct some research on the preferred methods for accepting payments online by some of our E-Commerce businesses.

By following some simple steps your e commerce shop can be up and running in no time at all.

Setting up your website for accepting payment
Label Media can help you to build a website and set up a shopping cart. Shopfront is aimed at small business and is the ideal entry level E Commerce shop. The system will allow you to add an unlimited number of items to your website, presenting them in a way that will entice your customers to buy.

Choosing how to accept payments
Payment Gateways or Payment Service Providers (PSP) provide a secure link between your website and your merchant bank. The PSP do not handle the money, they just ensure that customers’ personal details are kept secure during the period when they are sent to the bank for authorisation. To use a PSP on your website you will need to obtain a Internet Merchant Account for your card payments to be deposited into. You will be expected to pay a fee for both the use of the PSP and the Merchant account. Both are usually based upon the number and value of transactions and so it is worth shopping around to find the most competitive rates.

Protx and SECPay are our preferred suppliers. Both of these PSP can be seamlessly integrated into your website, and their systems can be branded to look the same.

Mals Ecommerce is a FREE shopping cart solution, that will securely accept your customers details, but will require you to manually enter the information into a PDQ machine.

Sometimes; if you are a start-up business, it can be tricky to obtain an Internet Merchant Account until you have an established credit history and so you may need to consider alternatives. PayPal, PayPoint, Google Checkout all offer a combined payment gateway with Internet merchant accounts to offer a complete card acceptance solutions.

Contact us for free impartial advice on how your can integrate an E Commerce

First thing’s first - welcome to Label Media’s new blog!

We decided it might be fun to try to maintain a regular journal of life at Label, comments on our ongoing work, interesting articles and comments, design and development tips and tutorials and the like. So please do stay tuned; heck, why not subscribe to our RSS feed while you’re here.

So - who are we?

Well i’m Sam, one of the web developers here at Label. My day to day tasks usually involve making updates and amends to the various websites we run for our clients. In addition to this usual maintenance, I spend my time building the HTML and CSS that makes up the visual appearance of the sites you see, write Javascript for the fancy bits, and program the backend scripts which tie it all together, usually in a language called PHP with a database engine called MySQL which holds the data. I’m also jointly responsible for the work on our proprietary Content Management System, which we call LabelEd.

We do have a demo of that available if you’d like to see, although you will have to contact us for access.

Of course i’m not the only guy here, so i’ll lead on to Rich..

Hi, I’m Rich one of the Directors at Label Media, I look after the design side of things at the company. Design has been my passion for the past 20 years and I’m still learning new techniques and thinking up new idea’s everyday.

Sam and I have been working on updating the Label website with new work, please take a look and let us know what you think.

We’ll get the others to add their updates asap. :-p

At Label Media Ltd we are always looking at new technologies and trying to stay on the cusp of our industry, developing new ways of doing things. We see spending time off commercial projects and working on “in house” development projects very beneficial to the development of our staff and the company. Using a Research & Development environment we’ve looked into technological advances in the field of unique interface design and experimental development. One such project is LabelED which is a constantly evolving R&D project, a working version of which is available online at: http://labeled.labelmedia.co.uk/If you’d like to view a demonstration of the LabelED backend, please contact Richard Turnbull or Simon Latham on 0113 2458870.