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A few months ago, I finished setting up a website to sell some great niche products that I had a hand in developing. I know that there's a market out there for what I'm selling so I was very excited about this new business opportunity. However, I've only received a fraction of the amount of orders I initially projected, even if my site has been fully operational for a few weeks.

I know that potential customers aren't having any trouble finding me because there's a good amount of traffic on my site. The problem is that they're just not ordering. I asked a friend to review my site and he immediately spotted the problem. He told me that the customers are not ordering my product because I wasn't set up to accept credit cards online.

I thought about signing up with a service to allow me to accept credit cards online when I was first getting my site in order. However, I decided to skip that step in the beginning because I was working against a tight deadline. I eventually wanted to accept credit cards online, but figured I'd be OK going with PayPal and Google Checkout for a while. The problem was that not as many people use those payment options as I'd counted on. It looked like that I would indeed have to get set up to accept credit cards on the Internet sooner than I anticipated.

I asked my friend about how to accept credit cards online because I didn't know the first thing about it. I found out that I'd have to open up a merchant account with a service company that specializes in helping website operators accept credit cards online. My friend told me that I could do it quickly by upgrading my PayPal account, but I didn't like the looks of their fee schedule.

I thought that there ought the be some pretty low rates available due to the competition if there are as many companies out there that help business owners accept credit cards online as my friend said. As a result, I spent a bit of time shopping around and comparing the rates, terms of service, and features of some of the more popular merchant account providers. I signed up and got started right away when I found a service that offered good features with low rates.

I'm finally starting to generate the level of income I expected from my site now that I'm able to accept credit cards on the Internet. I did not expect that the solution would be so simple. I'm just glad that my friend was able to spot to problem quickly and help me get on the right track. You should make sure you can accept credit cards online if you're also experiencing low sales volume despite high levels of traffic.