Virtual Terminal is an online version of credit card swipe machines with some added advantages. It surely helps to expand your business.

Virtual terminal is used when a customer makes an order through phone, fax or an email. The customers provides you with credit card details. You have to enter the order into virtual terminal. Then the transaction is processed by the merchant services company.

Virtual terminal is easy to use & its affordable & convenient for an online business.

Paypal is one of the merchant services company which provides Virtual terminal

ebay, the name is enough. It is a world’s online marketplace. ebay has brought the world’s online market at one place. On ebay, buyers & sellers can trade almost anything. eabay is a place where you can trade anything from antiques to cars, books to sporting goods & from a mobile to a laptop. ebay is another name for online marketing.

Trading on eBay is very easy .

If you have to sell anything on ebay, the seller (you) have to list the item on ebay, The seller chooses to accept only bids for the item (an auction-type listing) or to offer the Buy It Now option, which allows buyers to purchase the item right away at a fixed price.

In an online auction, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days. Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins.

Site: www.ebay.com

CDGcommerce is a merchant services company found in 1998. This company is focused on providing a professional, advisory and merchant-centric payment processing service.

CDGcommerce is one source for all of the Payment Processing Support. It provides everything under one roof - right from the source.

CDGcommerce provides following services like Internet Merchants, Mail-Order & Direct Response (DR) & Retail, Wireless & Niche Merchants.

Through CDGcommerce you can set up your clients with Merchant Accounts, Internet Payment Gateways (Authorize.Net, CDGGateway and others), a full line of point-of-sale credit card terminals, software and wireless options… and the ability to process all forms of electronic payments.

Merchant account is a bank account which is established on an agreement between the merchant & and a bank and/or a payment gateway. Merchant account helps to collect credit card payments online.

Merchant account can be divided in two ways, own merchant account & third party merchant account.

Difference between own merchant account & a third party merchant account ?

Own merchant account:

If you have own merchant account, it means you get to bill credit cards yourself. Having a own merchant account is a lot of responsibility! You will have to store your client details & your client’s credit card numbers in your own database, would have the power to bill them any time you want for any amount. Because you have so much power this type of an account is a little harder to get started with.

Third party merchant account

A third party merchant account managed by a third part on your behalf. Paypal and 2checkout are what you can call third party merchant accounts. They store the credit card numbers that charge your clients. With a third party merchant account you create a ‘item’, just like in a the shopping cart, decide how much to sell that item for, and decide if its going to be a recurring charge or not. Then you a get a link to provide your customers with, your customer will go to the link to signup with you.

WHM AutoPilot

WHM AutoPilot is brainchild of Brandee Diggs who was looking more out of a simple managment script. The idea behind developing of WHM AutoPilot was creating an internal management system that could handle the daily operations of a normal Reseller hosting company.

WHM AutoPilot was developed with most of the suggestion from webhosts. All the requested features were add into the script.

WHM AutoPilot provides Automated account creation, account suspension, import capabilities, domain propagation monitoring & server rotation .

WHM AutoPilot can be installed on any server with UNIX / Linux Operating System with cPanel/WHM, Zend Optimizer™ > 2.5.7 or higher OR IonCube & MySQL 4.0.x database connectivity.

WHM AutoPilot is integrated with different Payment Gateways like PayPal Subscriptions (www.paypal.com), Authorize.net (www.authorize.net), 2Checkout (www.2checkout.com) & many more.

Site: http://www.whmautopilot.com

ModernBill

ModernBill is one of the most advanced automated & recurring billing software. Modernbill enables automated signups, automated payment processing & automated account provisioning. It is flexible, powerful & extensible.

Modernbill supports wide range of modules, including payment gateways, control panels, domain registrars, and miscellaneous products and services.

It can be installed on both Linux & Windows Operating systems. ModernBill integrates with Plesk, Ensim, cPanel & DirectAdmin on Linux & supports MySql, Oracle & PostGres database. On Windows, ModernBill integrates with Plesk, Ensim, Helm, Hsphere & Sphera supports MySql, Oracle & PostGresql database.

ModernBill also integrates with hepldesk systems like Cerberus.

Site: http://www.modernbill.com

Ubersmith

A perfect integration of billing manager & support system, Ubersmith streamlines both the small and large hosting business.

As a billing manager Ubersmith automates invoicing & charging clients. Its Integration with cPanel allows automatic account creation on cpanel server when account is create within Ubersmith.

Ubersmith supports different payment gateways such as Authorize.net, Payment Alliance’s Navigate, Linkpoint, Echo, and Plug ‘n Pay.

System requirements for Ubersmith are Apache ( minimum version 1.3, recomended version 2.0), PHP ( minimum version 4.2.0, recomended version 4.3.10), MySql 4.1.

Site: http://www.ubersmith.com

ClientExec

ClientExec is a tool to help web hosts manage and support their clients efficiently. It gives a complete control of invoicing. ClientExec is designed to be flexible. Custom fields can be easily added through a simple interface.

ClientExec runs on any server that has at least PHP 4.3.8 up to PHP 5.1.x as well as MySQL 3.2.3.49 to MySQL 4.1. The ionCube loader or Zend is also required.

ClientExec license can be purchased at www.clientexec.com/members/signup.php

Site: http://www.clientexec.com

Fantastico De Luxe is the leading auto installer for cPanel servers. With more than 10,000 installations, it provides more than one million end users the ability to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems into their web space.

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