Integrating paypal into design

[jbastow]

Hi all,

 

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. Once I get set up with a paypal account, I want to be able to make it appear as though the customer isn't leaving the site completely to process their payment. My idea is to have the paypal page open in a frame within my template. I don't know if this is:

 

a ) Possible

b ) Safe

c ) Legal

or d ) even a vaguely good idea (!?)

 

 

My thinking is that it will make my store look a little more professional, keeping a consistent design throughout, and making it appear as though we're big enough to have the resources to process cards (plan to get get SSL anyways). A downfall I can see is that the customer won't be able to see the address bar and therefore the SSL protection on the paypal page, even though I'd be sure to let them know that the payment was powered/processes by paypal.

 

What are your thoughts on this? Are there any other site where I can see a better integration than what the stock version comes out as?

 

Thanks for your help!

Janna

[ardley216]

going through paypal with standard paypal checkout is free, do do it through your own website cost abit of money, i have gone through the paypal website many times and not found it any less professional... but you'll need paypal espress checkout. you can read all about every paypal checkout system on the payapl website by clicking on the merchant services.

 

i hope thats a help to you.

[DejaVu]

I dont believe Paypal can be framed within your layout anyway! I'm pretty certain it will break out of Frames/IFrame (Frame's suck anyways!). Most customers who regularly use the internet are aware that most stores have 'offsite' secure payment facillities anyways.

 

I recommend writing a description about the payment process that your customers can view and understand the reasoning for it. Be as vague or as informative as you like. Can even explain the card processing fee's you are not paying to these large companies ($30 per month) are keeping your stores prices down and you are passing the savings onto registered Paypal card users.

 

Although some seem put off by Paypal for some reason, if you explain that the Paypal process is necessary and you explain good points about using Paypal it'll help people get more knowledgable on Paypal's payment schemes and why loads of stores still use them!

[jbastow]

Thanks for the advice, guys. :thumbsup:

 

As starter business, I'll stick with the basic processing method. I might move to the integrated version if things go my way.

 

At least this saves a whole bunch of design time (yes, frames do suck)

 

 

I'm aware that you can change the styling of the Paypal page - to match your own colour scheme. How editable is it, or am I just stuck changing only text colours and the such?

[DejaVu]

Background Colour & Header Image is about the size of it I think.

[jow ga]

Is there a way to have your checkout process bring customers to the PayPals Credit Card Page rather than to the paypal login page that has to option to go to the credit card page.

 

thanks,

Tom

[jbastow]

Is there a way to have your checkout process bring customers to the PayPals Credit Card Page rather than to the paypal login page that has to option to go to the credit card page.

 

thanks,

Tom

 

 

I'm not sure. I'm still trying to figure out how to set it up so that the customers don't have to have an account on Paypal to complete the purchase. I've followed all of Paypal's directions, and it's still requiring a log in.

[♥toyicebear]

I'm not sure. I'm still trying to figure out how to set it up so that the customers don't have to have an account on Paypal to complete the purchase. I've followed all of Paypal's directions, and it's still requiring a log in.

 

 

Clear the cookies from your browser and try again...

 

(If a cookie set by paypal exist it will just ask for the login since then the paypal payment system assume that you have a paypal account already.)

[jbastow]

Clear the cookies from your browser and try again...

 

(If a cookie set by paypal exist it will just ask for the login since then the paypal payment system assume that you have a paypal account already.)

 

 

I tried this, and I still got the options of "Create a PayPal Account or Log In". I made sure to clear the cookies for both my domain and paypal's, and used a fresh test account.

 

Anything else I can check?

[♥toyicebear]

I tried this, and I still got the options of "Create a PayPal Account or Log In". I made sure to clear the cookies for both my domain and paypal's, and used a fresh test account.

 

Anything else I can check?

 

 

also go to www.paypal.com and loginto your account and make sure that the setting for optional paypal account is set to true.

[jbastow]

also go to www.paypal.com and loginto your account and make sure that the setting for optional paypal account is set to true.

 

 

I've been looking in the Website Payment Preferences page, where I have Auto Return and PayPal Account Optional turned on.

 

Is there another setting that I need to set up? I've gone through (what I think is) everything on the Paypal site.