Your ClickBank Nickname

    One should note that all of the steps in this book including opening a ClickBank account, using their authentication script and testing your online credit card ordering system is absolutely FREE. ClickBank will not charge you any one time activation fee ($49) until you request to start taking orders over $0.00 dollars. ClickBank does not charge anything to setup an account before then. Creating your order pages and perfecting your web page ordering system will not cost you a thing. Since the setup is free of charge, the first step is to obtain a ClickBank account. Bookmark this page and follow the link below to setup a ClickBank account. When you have obtained your ClickBank nickname come back to this page and continue the article.

    Now that you have signed up for a ClickBank Nickname and Credit Ordering Status, you can use their services to create your automated online credit sales system. Before discussing the use of a CGI script though, we will examine the first page that will be used by the system. In the next step we will look at the example of an online software key sales system using CGI and the ClickBank service.

Setting Up Your Sales Page

    The Sales Page is where the purchaser of your product will execute the CGI program that calls the order page. On your sales page you are required to do the following:

• Explain exactly what it is that you are selling.
• Tell your customer exactly how they will be receiving their product.
• Tell them how long it will take to receive the product.
• Inform them that they are about to be sent to the ClickBank credit ordering system, which will take them to a secure server for credit processing.

    In the next section, we will look at an example sales page for a software registration key and how to build a form that will call the CGI program that uses the ClickBank Sales Link.