making a pay site?
 

i appologize if this was covered before.. i did a search couldnt narrow it down to what i was trying to get. :(

basically i just want to know how people turn their sites into pay sites. I dont know jack about making a site so treat me as an idiot. ;) I suppose i would pay someone to design my website with the info i provide. Then get a domain name and pay for hosting. So there i have my site. Now how do i get my site to accept payments from a credit card? How does that whole thing work? Would i have a company do it for me and pay a certain percentage of the sales to them for providing the service? Would that company be sending me a check every month? any info anyone could provide would be most appreciated. thanks in advance! :)

i do not have the answers you seek but maybe a little more info would help those who know.....

such as:

what type of a site are you wishing to run, one that sells goods and you use the site to proecess orders?

a site the has users pay to access or view content ie, a porn site with a pay members only area.

answering them 2 questions with as much info as possible might help in getting an answer you need.

You would go through a 3rd party vendor for your credit card processing. You'll wind up paying about 2% or so of each transaction in credit card fees, as well as some sort of static fees on your bill. Some vendors provide you with the raw code for the shift to a pay site. That's pretty much my knowledge on it all.
Hope that part helps.

actually im interested in finding out how it works for both kinds of sites. a site where i can sell goods to somone and a site where one would have to pay to access the site. (like a porn site, although a porn site is not what i had in mind. ;) )

Try this out:
http://www.cubecart.com/

I'm not sure of their quality, but this is one of the many selections you can look at.

http://www.novainfo.com/products/software.asp Viaklix is also a very good choice if you already had a shopping cart set up..

Or maybe even Yahooshore?

Hopefully someone better at this than I am can chine in and lend some more help or suggestions.

pay a proffesional it sounds like you have no clue what your doing and if you want to be able to take credit cards and stuff its best to have it done proffesionaly