anyone use Paypal on their website as their ordering system?

[Kaido]

Curious as to how good it is and whether every user needs a login name and password, or can simply place an order.

 

[Injury]

With paypal as a form of payment for services, you MUST log into the paypal system. You do not need to make accounts for your website to use paypal for orders.

I believe paypal details it all on their site, but it's merely a matter of passing variables through from your site to paypal's site when someone needs to pay.

 

[Kaido]

took a little digging, but I found this:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/mer/WAX_landing-outside

"Buyers Can Checkout Without a PayPal Account"

It seems like the best solution for now. They cover Amex, Discover, Visa, and Mastercard.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Also consider 2checkout.com

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

I built a little web store for a friend's wife. The site used Paypal and people could checkout without signing up. Originally, they had to, but it was changed at some point. It's perfectly suitable for a small site, imo.

 

[CrazyDe1]

This is an interesting question...we're pretty much forced to use paypal as no other merchant service allows "travel agents"

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
This is an interesting question...we're pretty much forced to use paypal as no other merchant service allows "travel agents"

travel agents? eh?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Kaido
took a little digging, but I found this:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/mer/WAX_landing-outside">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/mer/WAX_landing-outside</a>

"Buyers Can Checkout Without a PayPal Account"

It seems like the best solution for now. They cover Amex, Discover, Visa, and Mastercard.

Yep I know a few web hosts who use Paypal to accept cc's, low processing costs and no merchant account required.

They also do not require a paypal account which is convenient.