Newbie Q - Taking Payments Online
I've trawled through 3 pages of search material without finding the answer/s I was looking for, so hopefully I'm not going to be asking a question that's been asked a million times.
Here's what I'm wanting to achieve
I'm using Russel Brunson's Micro continuity system.
Customer buys my free +shipping and handling CD for 2.95 and gets 2 weeks free trial of my continuity program. After that they are billed at 7.99 a week for the next 12 weeks.
In the future I'd like to be able to upsell them with a OTO, but I don't have anything to upsell them to at the moment as this is a brand new (started a few weeks ago) project.
So what I'm looking for is the best way to:
Do a soft optin to my free trial (i.e. they can just order the CD if they want, they don't have to take the free trial)?
Do recurring billing?
Do Upsells and OTO's?
Do 1click payments?
1shopping cart is the recommended approach on the Micro continuity course, but this is where I get confused and finally ask my question!
I thought I just needed to get a 1shoppingcart account and that was that. But it seems I also need to have a merchant account. Whilst doing my own research on the Warrior forum, I came across mention of Payment gateways and merchant accounts.
Can some kind Warrior please explain these terms (Payment gateway, merchant account etc) in plain English?
I've only ever used paypal before, so this is all a bit new to me.
All comments gratefully received as I've spent a lot of valuable time trying to work this out unsatisfactorily and when it comes to taking other peoples money, I'm not sure learning by trial and error is such a good idea!
Kindest regards
Marcus
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