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was also the first time the business tier had some functionality of its own, instead of simply
passing data back and forth between the data tier and the presentation tier.
In Chapter 9, you??™ll learn how to sell your products using PayPal.
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Receiving Payments Using
PayPal
Let??™s make some money! Your e-commerce web site needs a way to receive payments from
customers. The preferred solution for established companies is to open amerchant account,
but many small businesses choose to start with a solution that??™s simpler to implement, where
they don??™t have to process credit card or payment information themselves.
A number of companies and web sites can help individuals or small businesses that don??™t
have the resources to process credit cards and wire transactions. These companies can be
used to mediate the payment between online businesses and their customers. Many of these
payment-processing companies are relatively new, and handling of any individual??™s financial
details is very sensitive. Additionally, a quick search on the Internet will produce reports from
both satisfied and unsatisfied customers for almost all of these companies. For these reasons,
we are not recommending any specific third-party company.
Instead, this chapter lists some of the companies currently providing these services, and
then demonstrates some of the functionality they provide using PayPal as an example.
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