From the course: Learning Shopify

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Understand online payments

Understand online payments - Shopify Tutorial

From the course: Learning Shopify

Start my 1-month free trial

Understand online payments

- [Instructor] Displaying a list of products on your site is one thing. Displaying products and letting people transfer money to you electronically is a totally different thing and requires extra setup. To get paid online, you typically need four things: a website, a payment gateway, a merchant account, and a bank account for your business. The website is pretty straightforward. This is where a customer will add products to their cart, checkout, add credit card information, and your website then needs to send that information to the payment gateway. The payment gateway checks to make sure that the funds are available. If the funds aren't available, the payment gateway will return that information to your website. The website can then display an error to the customer. If the funds are available, then the payment gateway will return that information to website to complete the transaction. The next step depends on what…

Contents