If you are running an affiliate program and you need to process the payment, then you need to have a shopping cart. You do not need to create one yourself, but just need to sign-up for an account with such service providers. Payments will be processed at their secure website and transferred to your account.

Paypal is one of such service provider and is the most popular one. To create an account just sign-up for free and verify your account using your credit card.

To start off

Go to Paypal website and sign-up using correct information. Your email is very important as the payments are processed using your email. You can add multiple emails after you create your account. You need to verify the emails before you start using it.

Once you create your account, you can login and view your account control panel

Here you see tabs like Send money, Request Money, Merchant services etc.

To use the shopping cart, you need to go to the Merchant services

From here you can select the right button or cart as per your need. You will find all the help and support at the website itself and its not to hard to set it up.

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