As any new website owner can tell you, getting all the nuts and bolts of an e-commerce site worked out can be a lot of work. When you sell online, one of the most important things you'll need to work out is your payment methods - what system you will use to process the transactions that go through your shopping cart. If you’re accepting payments directly through the website and you’re in Australia, you have two main options: a Payment Gateway/ Internet Merchant Facility combo or PayPal.
In Australia, to accept a credit card payment through your shopping cart the best thing to do is set up an Internet Merchant Facility (with your bank) and a Payment Gateway. (Sometimes the int...