If you sell your online training on Skilljar, you can choose whether to use your own payment gateway to process e-commerce transactions, or opt for Skilljar to handle payments. Both options have their own benefits. In this article, we take a look at the e-commerce options for your Skilljar courses.
A payment gateway is a service that processes e-commerce transactions. If you are selling any courses on Skilljar, you are using a payment gateway.
You might wonder how important it is to utilize PayPal in addition to Stripe, which accepts all major credit cards. Offering an additonal payment type will broaden your customer base. We highly recommend enabling both payment gateways; approximately 70% of courses have been purchased via credit card, while 30% have been processed via PayPal.
2. Use Skilljar’s payment gateway