MWpro - 3:44 am on Nov 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

*PayPal recently started allowing Website Payment Standard merchants to accept orders from customers who are not registered with a PayPal account. However, what PayPal do not tell you is that the risk of fraud is entirely on your shoulders as a merchant.

I disagree. PayPal provides protection for those whose billing address is confirmed--that is, their billing address is identical to their shipping address. This is true regardless of whether they have a PayPal account.

dpd1, to solve this problem, I have a "PayPal Info" section right before they are sent to PayPal. It informs them of how safe PayPal is, and also that they don't need to have a paypal account to continue. I took a picture of the initial PayPal checkout page and in photoshop I circled the "Continue" link that they have to click if they don't have a paypal account. I only offer Paypal and Google Checkout and I have had no issues to date.

[edited by: MWpro at 4:33 am (utc) on Nov. 28, 2008]