What's the best payment processor on a website that sells t-shirts? I'm talking low-cost items, but maybe thousands of sales.
Allright I faced to the same problem. If you can predict at least 50$ sales per one day you better go for a bank payment gateway. For small sales its useless to get a bank payment gateway becuase of the cost involved. Then you can integrate a paypal API with the web site. Moneybooker also good. but paypal API allow you to make the customer to pay in your web site without leaving to paypal site. I don't know whether you can do this in moneybooker. Some customers would like to make their payments leaving to more trusted paypal or moneybooker page. So please select the payment processing carefully thinking about the income you are going to receive.
I don't believe so, but you should check with them. For your case Plimus may be good. They accept Paypal.
The answer to your question is going to depend entirely on your business, sales volume, physical location, location of your customers and several other factors. For a business with a larger aggregated total monthly sales volume a direct merchant account is always better. Good luck with your business Cheers Ron
look for a payment gateway that has strong guard against fraud credit card usage and their policy on chargeback matters, otherwise you will always lose money and stock and online business gets down quick.