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How to Collect Donations Online
To help you configure your online fundraising project, we’ve devised this handy guide that will lead you through the steps of collecting donations online. We’ll go over how to best share the story of your mission, which donation tools you can embed on your website to collect money, and lots more!
How to Accept Credit Card Payments Online
There are several payment methods you can integrate to give your potential clients more leeway to pay for your product or service in their own way. However, accepting credit cards for online payments is crucial, as the majority of online shoppers use payment cards (credit and debit) for purchases.
How to Set Up an Online Store
Now that we’ve decided that it’s time for you to start selling your products (or services) online, let’s get down into the nitty-gritty of starting an online store. We’ll take you through the process of how to start an online store on your existing website, as well as how to handle bookings, orders, and payments online.
CNAME vs A Record
There are many DNS record types, and they vary from being absolutely essential, to simply being quite useful. Two of the most commonly used DNS records are A records and CNAME records. Let’s take a closer look at what each of these DNS records is and what their functions are, so as to better understand what the difference between a CNAME and an A record is.
What Is an SPF Record?
In DNS, an SPF record, or Sender Policy Framework record, is a TXT record that allows you to list the authorized hostnames and IP addresses that have permission to send emails under the auspice of your domain, i.e. on behalf of it. When you set up an SPF record, you specify the exact hosts which have the authority to send emails from your domain.
What Is a CNAME Record?
A CNAME record (stands for “canonical name” record) is a DNS record which is used to connect an alias of a domain (or a subdomain) with the main domain. In other words, it takes visitors arriving at the alias domain to the same website which is associated with the main domain itself. CNAME records don’t point to IP addresses, but only to a domain.
What Is an A Record?
An A record holds the most essential information about a domain: it contains the IP address associated with that domain. In other words, an A record has the instructions which connect the address of a computer through its hostname. The “A” in this type of record stands for address because it discloses the requested IP address.
Free Email Forwarding on Domain Name Sanity
Email forwarding, sometimes referred to as email aliases or email redirects, forwards emails from a custom email account, normally associated with your website, to your own, pre-existing email address. In other words, email forwarding allows you to create a “dummy” email address through which people’s emails can reach your own existing mailbox, the one that you regularly use.
Do I Need a Business License to Sell Online?
Find out what type of business license you need and how to get it in order to sell online.
