This document discusses payment options for online work. It outlines several methods for clients to pay including checks, direct bank transfers, and credit cards. It notes that credit cards require a secure site to accept card numbers and recommends third party services like PayPal and WorldPay that accept payments on behalf of businesses. The document also asks how other online therapists handle payments and suggests considering hourly rates, rates per word or email, or contract-based pricing structures. It concludes by encouraging the reader to think through their own payment options.

1. Payment for Online WorkPayment for Online Work
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2. Payment Online
How can you get paid?
What payment methods are
available?
How should you charge
for your time?

3. You need to offer clients a
method of payment which is
quick, efficient, safe and easy.

4. The simplest (but not the quickest) method is to wait for
a cheque from a client via snail mail before beginning
the work.
Could be slow

5. You could give your client your bank details
and ask them to pay direct into your account.
Internet banking can be
done at the click of a button.
Is it safe to give out your bank details?

6. YOU COULD TAKE CREDIT CARDS
But are you set up to accept them?

7. Do you have a secure site toDo you have a secure site to
accept credit card numbers?accept credit card numbers?

8. There are companies who accept credit card payments
on your behalf and send the money on to you.
Look at these sites and see what you think.
www.paypal.com
www.worldpay.com
www.nochex.co.uk
Are there any others?
www.checkout.google.com

9. How do other therapists tackle this problem?
Visit some websites
Look around
See what other therapists do

10. How much should you charge?How much should you charge?
You could charge by the hourYou could charge by the hour
You could charge for every 100 wordsYou could charge for every 100 words
You could charge for every emailYou could charge for every email
You could charge for an agreedYou could charge for an agreed
period/contractperiod/contract

11. Time to do some thinkingTime to do some thinking

12. Payment OnlinePayment Online
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By Gill Jones MABy Gill Jones MA