It took a long time for Debi Jones to receive her payment from Google AdSense, and when the check finally arrived, it bounced (according to a bank teller to whom Jones spoke).  This created a bit of a circus; Matt Cutts himself got involved.  And now the whole situation’s been resolved.

From time to time, I like to mention Google’s market cap (currently at $173 billion), but it’s especially relevant to this story.  After all, if even little old me has never bounced a check, how did search giant Google manage to do so?

Yahoo and eBay announced the Yahoo PayPal Checkout Program, which users of Yahoo Search will encounter as little blue shopping cart icons in the search results.

Accepting electronic payments is essential to an ebusiness. The UK is Europe’s largest ecommerce economy with 27.7 million UK having shopped online- and it is growing fast.

Do you really need a merchant account?

If Yahoo Japan’s most recent attempt at starting a joint venture and taking a position in an online bank succeeds, it could be a testing ground for establishing an online payment service.

A sudden change in eBay’s payment policy has many wondering if this is a preemptive move in preparation of the rumored Google Purchase, which could offer some serious competition to PayPal. Conspiracy theories and lots of between the line eyeballing are rampant, even if eBay insists the changes are to enhance protection for buyers.

Once you decide which products you are planning to sell on the Internet, and what type of web store you are going to use in order to display your products, next vital decision that you have to take is to figure out how your customers are going to pay you. Whatever you plan to sell online, accepting credit card transaction is a must! A full 90 percent of all online sales occur through credit card payments.

Sam Sugar asks Google to allow the adult entertainment industry to use its upcoming transaction service, which he argues would bring stability and safety to the online porn industry, and give Google a huge edge over PayPal.

The board of the Screen Actors Guild overruled its membership and rejected a recently approved contract.

After my two-part article about selling things on your website, I had several people ask for more details on billing companies and shopping carts. So here goes.

If you are selling goods or services, software or other stuff you need to arrange online payment mechanism for your customers.

I’m going to show you how to quickly get set up to automatically accept credit card purchases on your site. In addition, I’ll also be discussing the benefits of accepting:

If you want to sell online, you need to be able to accept credit card payments. The traditional way is to open a merchant account. However, opening a merchant account is expensive, especially for small businesses who are just starting.

Benevolence, good will and philanthropy are honorable principles to adhere to and run by, but when bills start amassing, a charitable organization will not be excused from payment despite its inherent noble ideals and objectives.

As a nation, we have always derived great benefit from the charitable impulses of philanthropists – individuals who felt a strong sense of obligation to their fellow man, sharing their financial resources in an all-out effort to help others. During times of tragedy, such as the September 11th incident, charitable giving notably increases to help assuage our collective suffering.

If you are a regular seller on Ebay, no doubt you have received a “mystery payment” or two along the way. A mystery payment is where you receive a payment for an auction with nothing on it to give so much as a clue as to what the person is paying for (or who she is for that matter). I once received an envelope with a $20 bill in it along with a note that said “Thanks!”. Nothing else, just the cash and the note. I just about drove myself crazy figuring that one out.

Hi Wayne:

I am a Personal and Business Coach and that income requires quarterly self-employment tax payments as estimates of that year’s taxes. I also earn some occasional income through a couple of other businesses who hire me as contract labor. The income I earn through those businesses gets reported on 1099-Misc under section 7. Nonemployee compensation. Does that income also need to be included in the quarterly self- employment tax payments? At what point of income MUST you file the quarterly payments?

If you’ve counted on those few extra days from the time you write a check to a utility company and the time the check clears your bank, beware.

Several of the nation’s largest banks are now shifting from the traditional method of processing checks to a new electronic process. The new process will shave off a day or more from the traditional process it normally takes for your check to clear.