Hi Zamri,

Would you kindly please advise me on the following :

1. Can a Payment Processor be added to a Wordpress blog?

2. How do I do that?

I intend to write an ebook and sell it on my blog.

Payment processor is normally a third party company that handles transactions online. For example, 2Checkout.com, ClickBank.com or PayPal.com and you have to setup the price of your ebook and the download link inside these payment processor websites, which you’ll be given a URL to place on your website.

This is the link that you’ll put on your blog so that when people intend to purchase your ebook and click on that URL, they’ll be taken to the payment processor website which order will be taken. Once the order is fulfilled, your customers will be directed to the download link of your ebook.

In short, yes, you can sell your ebook on your blog this way but most of the time, we create a separate website to sell the ebook (and not write the full-blown direct response sales letter from the blog). That will give you more professional look and people will do business with professional ‘website’ (you).

However, there’s another option that you have – become an affiliate and sell other people’s products. It will remove all the headaches of setting up your own direct response website which requires lots of planning and strategies (such as writing good sales letter, designing the website, hiring e-cover designer, plugging in online payment link and of course, writing you own ebook).