As many of you may know, I help manage a few e-commerce sites. In my opinion e-commerce is the best way to make money online; Better than PPC, better than blogging, better than selling e-books. 

When setting up an e-commerce site, one of the most commonly overlooked steps in the setup process is choosing a reliable and affordable credit card processing service.    I recommend going with a company that doesn’t charge an application fee, or software fee.  I would also avoid any company that charges over $2.25 for an internet/phone/discount rate, and over $.25 for a per transaction fee.  If you can find a company that meets these parameters you should be all set and ready to sell. 

My recommended company for online credit card processing is a company called charge.com.  All you would need to do is perform a Google search on that company and you would know that they have been recommended by Apple, Magellan, and AOL. and Excite.

If you are in the process of setting up an e-commerce site, do you self a favor and fill out charge.com’s online application, it only takes 5 minutes and you’re on your way!