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Determine payment needs

Determine payment needs

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Determine payment needs

- [Instructor] One of the most obscure parts of running an online store is getting paid. We all know a customer needs to be able to enter a credit card, but what happens after that? It used to be incredibly hard to get paid online, but in the last few years, a few really easy to use solutions came out. You can now set it up in less than 15 minutes if you know what you're doing. The only real requirement before accepting payment is a secure site, or HTTPS. Since we are using BigCommerce and it's a hosted solution, they take care of this for us. If you go to your site, notice how any page loads in HTTPS. That means the data is encrypted and any data including credit card data our customer sent to us will be protected. I love that BigCommerce takes care of this for us automatically. One of the most popular ways to take payment is credit cards. When you process credit cards, there are two parts. The first is checking the credit card number, the ZIP, et cetera is all valid, and then making…

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