Share a Paypal account between more than one site?

[marksteelman]

Hello all. I'm using a Paypal account but I want to have some other site to work with it. Is it possible?

[mack]

Are you wanting to allow customers on your site to make purchases and remain on your site?

You may want to look into IPN. With IPN the user makes the purchase on your cart and is them transferred to Paypal to make the payment. After they have made payment they are returned to your site.

The main benefit of IPN is Paypal sends data back to your site to confirm that the payment was received. Many ecommerce shopping cart systems are designed with IPN in mind and it makes it pretty simple to use and Setup,

Mack

[jwolthuis]

You'll need a PayPal account per web site. For example, if you run 10 sites, you'll need 10 accounts.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

You'll need a PayPal account per web site. For example, if you run 10 sites, you'll need 10 accounts.

I don't think so?

[LifeinAsia]

You'll need a PayPal account per web site. For example, if you run 10 sites, you'll need 10 accounts.

Incorrect. Read PayPal's ToS- each person is allowed a maximum of 2 PayPal accounts: 1 personal, 1 business.

[mack]

I use the same Paypal account for a few sites. The only cause for concern is the displayed company name on the Paypal payment page.

What I do is use a common name for all sites and state on each site you payment will be handled though "foo" before they are handed of to Paypal.

This removes any confusion.

Mack.

[BananaFish]

I'm reasonably sure that with paypal payments-pro it works like anyother gateway -- and you only need one account.

[seanpecor]

You can define as many templates as you need with Paypal. You simply pass the template name desired as instructed in their online documentation as a variable contained in the Paypal button submission on your web site. Have each template customized to the site it's being used on. In my case, I also have a custom header image for each web site, and have the images hosted on an SSL image hosting service so the browser "unsecure content" warning message doesn't appear.

Sean

[edited by: seanpecor at 9:43 pm (utc) on April 27, 2006]

[pp_rb]

The only cause for concern is the displayed company name on the Paypal payment page.

While you can't change the display name for each site, you can customize the checkout flow, so you can use a different logo on the PayPal payment pages for each of your different sites.

To customize your payment pages, you can either set up the "Custom Payment Pages" in the Profile section of your PayPal account, or you can add these variables to your payment buttons:

cpp_header_image - URL for the image to display at the top of every checkout page, up to 750x90 pixels
cpp_headerback_color - Hex value for the background color within the 750x90 pixel header space
cpp_headerborder_color - Hex value for the color of the border around the header space
cpp_payflow_color - Hex value for the background color on every checkout page

If you do supply the URL for a logo, please make sure it is an https: link. If you use an http: link, your customers who use Internet Explorer will get a security alert on every page of the checkout.