Gnice Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Hello, all i am new, i recently added pay-pal to get my site up and running quick, but i have arrived at a dead-end even quicker, a customer logged in and was ready to make a purchase but was un able to do so because my site would not take credit cards, lol , i know now that i need a merchants account, i was wondering if its better to have a separate account for credit cards or have everthing w/ pay-pal?
lindsayanng Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I have everyhting with paypal and am happy with it.. its a good beginers way to do it.. no upfront costs and decent rates. A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!!
Gnice Posted October 21, 2008 Author Posted October 21, 2008 I have everyhting with paypal and am happy with it.. its a good beginers way to do it.. no upfront costs and decent rates. Thanks, your newbie post was great! I am not that far along yet, but it will be my bible!
usernamenone Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 your oscommerce site does not take the credit cards so you need to remove that payment option. they are processed at the paypal site. then follow this http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4726
jhande Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Hey Tony, Looks like a little clarifying things might help. You CAN except credit cards and advertise that you do on your site. All you need is a PayPal business acount. First go to PayPal and sign up for a business account. Then choose either Website Payment Standard or Website Payment Pro (I use Standard). Second install this contribution - osCommerce PayPal IPN Module v2.3.3 For 2.2MS2 by AlexStudio 16 Nov 2007 (discussion thread - here). Once everything is setup and installed, your customers will have their choice of how to pay after checking out; i.e. - Master Card, Visa, American Express, Discover or with their PayPal account. I think Lola meant to disable credit card options in your Admin Panel. I'm not sure about the PayPal contribution she pointed you to. I would recommend the PayPal IPN as it works and was developed by a few experts here. ;) One thing to keep in mind... Some customers might get cold feet when they see a PayPal payment page and might back out of the purchase. Post a note on your site stating that a PayPal account is not needed for a customer to process their checkout, that you are using PayPal as your processor and it might help prevent some from running away. :lol: - :: Jim :: - - My Toolbox ~ Adobe Web Bundle, XAMPP & WinMerge | Install ~ osC v2.3.3.4 -
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