Credit card payment with PayPal

Buyer has no account. How is it done?

[Patrick Taylor]

I have a small online shop, with PayPal as the checkout. The buyer doesn't need a PayPal account to make a credit card payment.

But if someone without a PayPal account wants to make me a credit card payment of a non-standard amount (agreed separately), can they do this? I thought it was possible but looking around PayPal I can't actually see how.

[axgrindr]

If you click on the 'Request Money' tab in your Paypal account you can send a request for payment to anyone with an email address

You can request money from anyone with an email address in 55 countries and regions that accept PayPal. You can also bill customers even if they do not have a PayPal account.

The invoice feature is pretty cool as well.

[Patrick Taylor]

Request Money - you're so right! I'd forgotten about that.

I phoned PayPal earlier on for clarification, and they never mentioned this, but they confirmed that someone without a PayPal account can only make a credit card payment via a shopping cart - not by directly going to a page at PayPal.

Thanks for the pointer about the invoicing tool as well.

[Corey Bryant]

Also depending on what country you are in and what account you have, it is optional PayPal Account Optional now International [paypal.typepad.com]

• Australia
  
• Belgium
  
• Canada
  
• France
  
• Hong Kong
  
• Netherlands
  
• United Kingdom
  
• United States
  

-Corey

[pp_rb]

But if someone without a PayPal account wants to make me a credit card payment of a non-standard amount (agreed separately), can they do this? I thought it was possible but looking around PayPal I can't actually see how.

Add the email address of your PayPal account at the end of this URL, and they can use it to pay you any amount:

[paypal.com...]

If you'd like, you can include the payment amount in the URL, e.g.:

[paypal.com...]

[Patrick Taylor]

Yes, those https URLs are very neat, but when I try them the amount is shown in dollars. I'm in the UK and require payment in GBP.

I do have PayPal Account Optional selected in my PayPal profile, but as I mentioned, this only works via the shopping cart.

Informative replies, thanks.

[The Contractor]

You can also create a PayPal Button/Form and stick it on a page leaving the amount blank - like:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" target="paypal" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="yourpaypalemail@yourdomain" >
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Your Item Name">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="Item Detail">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.yourdomain/paymentsuccess.html">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.yourdomain/whatever-page-this-form-is-on.html">
<input type="image" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" name="submit" width="73" height="44">
</form>

[edited by: The_Contractor at 12:02 am (utc) on Oct. 1, 2006]

[Patrick Taylor]

Thanks for that. Adding the currency code into the above https link seems to do the trick as well:

&currency_code=GBP