Questions about PayPal Payment Pro.

Need useful suggestions from person who is using it.

[iloveu]

After long time unsatisfied experience with 2CO, I finally decide to kick it away. My monthly sales is around $2K, so a lot of guys suggest me to apply for a merchant accout. Now, I want to ask, which one is better? Regular mearchant account or PayPal Payment Pro? If merchant account is better, please give me good recommendations. For myself, I prefer to PayPal Payment Pro. I am happy with PayPal Payment Standard. I think they have much better backend interface than 2CO. But some customers complaint the site gets stuck when they pay credit card @ PayPal, also I feel the decline rate is kind of high @ PayPal. Is there same problem with Payment Pro? How about payment approval rate? I program with ASP/VBScript(not.net)? Is that easy for me to integrate with PayPal API? Do you have online source for ASP coding? Many thanks beforhand.

[jwolthuis]

Since the PayPal Website Payments Pro API is web services-based, either PHP or ASP.NET would be excellent choices. I can't say for certain that ASP wouldn't work, but I have serious doubts.

The WPP API is difficult to learn, but once you get the hang of their "style" (if you can call it that), you can implement it fairly quickly.

Note that in accordance with PayPal business rules, you must implement both the Direct Payments API (for credit cards) and the Express Checkout API (for PayPal accounts). You cannot implement Direct Payments only.