CHA-CHING!

It's finally time for this website to make some money. Unfortunately, it's through selling beer mugs and t-shirts, so I won't see a dime of it.

Because this website isn't the focus of Sam's business, we're keeping our inventory simple. He's going to sell the same merchandise he does in his bar, so it's t-shirts, mugs, and an iPhone case.

We looked at several payment solutions. Because Sam has a bar to run, he doesn't want to spend all of his time managing website sales. To simplify things, we used the built-in Shopping feature of Wix.com. The Wix Shopping Cart has the #1 feature we wanted, payments through PayPal.

With PayPal, they will process all of the payments and Sam won't have to do anything on that front. He has enough financial transactions to manage every day of the week in his bar, he doesn't need to compound his troubles with online sales as well. PayPal will also assume the transactional risk and they have a huge user base with payment information on file, so that makes it more convenient for people to purchase something on the site. Users won't have to fumble around for their credit card and worry about entering it into a site they don't trust.

Using the built in Shopping Cart also ensures that the transactions are secure. I'm doing this for free, so I don't want to be Sam's security expert as well!

Here is a link to the store on our site.

(Disclosure: Wix will not activate the store to accept payments until you convert your site to an eCommerce site. I have not converted my site, so the shopping cart will not actually process payments)