Discover a free global payment system to make more sales on the internet

E-gold offers a free global payment system, backed at all times by gold bullion in allocated storage, which enables you to accept payment for your electronic sales.

It's totally free to setup an e-gold account and very easy to put an e-gold form on your web sire.

The fee for a spend transaction (pay e-metal from one account holder to another) is very low: 1% of the transaction amount, subject to a maximum of 50 cents (US$) equivalent value. The minimum fee per spend is 0.000004 troy ounces of e-metal. The fee is debited in e-metal from the payee.

A storage fee of 1% per annum is charged to each e-metal account. It is assessed in monthly installments, in e-metal, calculated according to the average daily balance during the preceding month.

The only drawback to use this fantastic global payment system is that the customer must have his/her own e-gold account to pay you online. It's not difficult at all to setup an e-gold account (in fact everybody can have it in a matter of minutes), but what is difficult is to fund the account with money, especially in some countries.

On the other side this is a very safe global payment system to make and accept payments. For customers who don't like to give their credit card numbers on the merchant site, this can be an incentive to make a purchase on your web site!

So, even if your business is well established and you have already your own merchant account, you can put an e-gold button on your sales page to increase your sales.

It will cost you nothing and you can't know how much you are loosing now if you don't give a different payment option to your customer.

The e-gold Shopping Cart Interface

The e-gold Shopping Cart Interface provides checkout capability to any e-gold account holder by allowing them to place a button on their web page to accept e-gold payments.

When you setup a global payment system with E-gold you will get a simple HTML form and you'll have only to customize a few fields to match your own information. Below you can see a sample of the e-gold button:

You can easily put this button near the product you are selling on the internet. The image below shows you how the e-gold system works:

The e-gold Automation Interface

This is a very interesting option if you are an experienced web master and you want to develop your own programs and e-commerce applications that utilize e-gold.

The e-gold automation interfaces allow a developer to perform e-gold functions such as account balance, account history, e-metal preview and spend. These functions are performing by submitting https requests to the e-gold system that conform to the specifications contained here.

Sample Perl scripts demonstrating the use of the e-gold Automation Interface are available on the E-gold web site

A free global payment system

The world wide web needs world wide money: e-gold was created in response to this need. It's a real and a "free" global payment system, because is accounted by weight of metal, not US$ or any other national currency unit.

Weight units have a precise, invariable, internationally recognized definition. Additionally, precious metals, gold in particular, enjoy a long history of monetary use around the world. Thus, e-gold is ideally suited for international transactions.

Although e-gold is accounted by weight, the e-gold payment system allows spends to be expressed in terms of eight major national currencies. For example, it's possible to: