Well, I'm impressed!

The store at eCrater has been open around a week or so - and we've got our first sales transaction in progress. I've specified that we'll accept payment of money orders and bank checks in addition to being able to go through Google Checkout, and we've had an inquiry from a customer who doesn't have a credit card. There are plenty of folks out there who either choose not to have them, or don't really trust the privacy of their information on the internet, I'm thinking. We won't accept personal checks, and we'll only take money orders in US funds - I think this covers our behinds fairly completely.

So I've told her the total amount necessary to buy and ship the product - in this case, the Big Bob Goes Fishing Teapot - and, as they say, "the check is in the mail."

This is already more traffic and business than we ever had at that Other Place, so I'm tickled pink. Of course, the real satisfaction will be when the money order arrives, but I'm sure we've got a transaction in progress here.

So happy, so relieved, so - yes, I'm going to say it here - proud of what we've done in this short time!