{"id":1162,"date":"2019-07-30T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rzplearn.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:52:57","slug":"social-media-sellers-accept-payments-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/learn\/social-media-sellers-accept-payments-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How Social Media Entrepreneurs can Accept Payments Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you a social media seller? Or are you a small business owner who sells merchandise on the Internet? Have you thought about how you\u2019ll accept online payments from your customers? If you have, you definitely know how you can\u2019t accomplish this in a few simple steps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accepting payments online is one of the most challenging aspects of owning a business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To accept payments online, the first thing you need is a website. Next, a <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payment-gateway\/\">payment gateway for websites<\/a> integration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don\u2019t have a website already, building one is going to take you some time. This can be very expensive because you have to host your website and develop it continuously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If not a website, an app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A payment gateway is necessarily going to be your first thought after your site is set up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you\u2019ll definitely think some more when you realize the amount of time it takes to get integrated, and the technical efforts it needs. You are a social media influencer, and it doesn\u2019t always make sense to spend that kind of money and time behind these things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, how can you go about accepting payments without having to deal with all of these?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three words: <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payment-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Razorpay Payment Pages<\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorpay Payment Pages is a payment solution that is not hosted or developed by you, but has your branding, and accepts online payments for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you have a website or you don\u2019t, whether you have an app or you don\u2019t, you can still accept payments online through Payment Pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take your business online and accept payments with limited technical knowledge and even less set-up time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorpay Payment Pages helps your business with end-to-end payment collection by allowing you to create your page without you having to host it, still allowing you to have a custom URL, which is an extension of your business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also capture customer data the way you want, with particulars you decide. You have access to the Razorpay dashboard that gives you detailed reports and analytics for payments collected via the hosted page. And best of all, it will take you absolutely no tech expertise or effort to build yourself a Payment Page and go live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can just link your Payment Page to your social media profile where you need to accept payments or send the Payment Page link to your customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this with complete security since Payment Pages is a part of the Razorpay\u2019s core platform. Your Payment Page is secured by an industry standard 100% <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/what-is-pci-dss-compliance\/\">PCI DSS compliant<\/a> and certified solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some benefits of Razorpay Payment Pages:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automate the generation and collection of payments using Razorpay\u2019s powerful APIs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive webhook notifications for all payments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive data, insights, and reports on the Razorpay dashboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for accepting payments in 100 foreign currencies through <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/international-payment-gateway-india\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"182\">international payment gateway<\/a> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/payment-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Razorpay Payment Pages<\/a> and get ready to propel your social media business to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"How Social Media Sellers Can Accept Payments Online | Razorpay\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D5IY5dZW2qg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/payment-pages-accept-payments-without-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Razorpay Payment Pages &#8211; The SME Payments Enabler<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can just link your Payment Page to your social media profile where you need to accept payments or send the Payment Page link to your customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151156458,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387],"tags":[1874,2568,2567,1573],"class_list":{"0":"post-1162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-payments","8":"tag-online-payments","9":"tag-payment-pages","10":"tag-sell-online","11":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151156458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.razorpay.in\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}