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Many newcomers in the land of ecommerce get quickly baffled by all the technical speak you find on many web hosting sites.

They sit there confused and bedazzled wondering which of the thousands of shopping carts to buy, wondering about merchant accounts, ecommerce hosting package, and most of all wondering about the costs.

The truth is they don't need any of them. They can start selling their products online today at no cost.

They don't even need a fancy hosting package, any one will do, even a free one .

What they do need however is a PayPal account (see note), and guess what? ..They're free as well.

Selling products, both hard and digital ones, online has never been easier all you need to do is to copy a bit of HTML code into your web page and .. Hey Presto.. you have entered the land of ecommerce.

So How Do You Do It?

Once you have a PayPalaccount this will give you a user ID. All you then need to do is to enter your product details into the PayPal system and they will generate some HTML code, which you simply copy and paste into your web page.

The web page will now typically contain a buy now button, which when clicked takes the visitor to the PayPal site where the purchase is made.

When complete the visitor is then sent back to your site. All of the ecommerce being done at the payment provider's website.

Have you ever wondered about those eCommerce enabled templates you see advertised? Guess what they use... yes.. PayPal.

 All you need to do to edit the ID in the template to match your PayPal ID.

For a step by step guide take a look at PayPal buy Now buttons.

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• PayPal Review