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Do you have to use their cart, or is there a way to integrate the functionality 100% into the design of your site?
If not, can anything with that amount of control/ease.
Thanks,
M
I've written a complete shopping cart that uses PayPal for payment processing --- but doesn't use anything else, (all the "Add Item", "View Cart", "Checkout" buttons are generated on site, BUT clicking them opens a window with PayPal). The cart integrates seamlessly with the website (it shares the same CSS style sheet so look and feel are carried through static pages and dynamic components).
The primary benefit is you can start accepting PayPal and most major credit card instantly with no merchant account, and no need for any other 3rd party payment service... the drawback is if PayPal is down (as they are every Thursday night for a couple hours for maint, and have been a few times lately for "problems" --- during those times you can't process any sales or check status on previous sales).
In theory yes. Now, trying to get your buyers to pay directly by credit card using the Paypal system. :)
It tell you alot reliable resources about paypal. If the information is fake, the site is gone already. Because paypal will sue them.
Ballysucks.com is sued by Bally. At last, the Ballysucks.com is still exist. Why? Because They didn't list any false information. it's just a forum to share the opinion of bally.
...at first because I think the site will be making less than $1K a month.
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Yeah, that's some serious junk on PayPal. I may just use good ole' fashion check & money orders......at first because I think the site will be making less than $1K a month.
Yeah, you'll *definitely* be making less than $1k per month if you force buyers to pay by check rather than giving them the convenience of PayPal -- because no one will buy. Avoiding PayPal because they're not perfect is rather like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
PayPal's customer service is atrocious, and PayPal does makes mistakes sometimes. No argument there. But is that a showstopper? Hardly. I've been selling through PayPal for years, and I set 100% of my ecommerce clients up with it too. Why? Because it means we can easily accept credit cards without having to get a merchant account, without paying any setup fees, without paying any monthly fees, without needing a secure certificate, and without having to pay for a secure server. That's compelling as hell.
My most recent grumble with PayPal is that I bought some bad memory on eBay via PayPal with a credit card and per PayPal's TOS I can't dispute the charge with my credit card company, and I'm not hopeful that I'll get a resolution through PayPal's internal resolution process. I've been waiting on a resolution for a while and when they finally respond they'll probably send me a form letter telling me I'm out of luck and that I have no recourse. But does that mean I won't sell with PayPal? Not a chance. I couldn't have built my business without them.
Any more changes than that would make me lose trust in the checkout process. I might think the site is a scam, fraud, or phishing site instead of a legitimate web store. Consistent look & feel makes sense if the buyer is staying on your domain. But if a buyer is going off your site, why try to hide that fact?
