Now the user never has to leave your website. Looks interesting

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_...verview-outside

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=174603

dan thanks for the other thread.. 20 bucks a month still isn't a lot of money for a complete payment processor Verisign payflow pro and authorize is much more expensive.

I've applied for it, and I am going to use it and support it in OnePanel, so I'll let you know how good it is in a few months.

This might sound like a stupid question, but why would anyone want to use such a service? It seems like all it does is allow people without Paypal to pay you, at a cost of $20 USD a month to yourself?

Yes, it's a merchant account - to allow you to accept payments on your website. Is very cheap for a merchant account too

So with this someone doesnt need to create a paypal account? Cool!

I wish they wouldnt have a transaction fee on top of the $20 a month though...

Still compared to the rest of the payment gateways it's pretty cheap! Also Cy if you have your paypal account set up with a U.S. checking account you can set the option so that users can make payments without a having paypal account.(if you want a free payment solution).

For small businesses that only take a 'few' credit card payment per month then the 'normal' paypal system is ideal.

However, for larger businesses who take hundreds/thousands of payments per month then this is excellent value for money and will save a huge amount of time for both the buyer and supplier.

For instance, here in the UK if you want to accept credit cards in a shop or over the phone etc then you will need a credit card machine and that will cost you at least £15 (approx 25$) per month plus of course you have to pay the phone costs as well........

All in all I would say that 20$ per month is pretty good value for money - but it does depend on what you need to do!

I'm thinking of integrating it... however, the only problem is it looks like you need an SSL certificate... and those cost like $200.

PayPal provides everything, anyway. And, using IPN is stupid. PayPal is so easy to fraud it's ridiculous.

I am confused, I thought it was $20 a month w/o transaction fees?

The topics on webhostingtalk about this are claiming that this is US only so far and not others like UK etc. Anyone confirm this ?

No, but is there any information on SSL certificates? It looks like they are needed, but PayPal doesn't mention this. I might be blind, though.

If you are accepting credit card information (or any personal information for that matter) then yes you DO need an ssl certificate. SSL certificates really aren't as expensive as they used to be. I usually use www.instantssl.com (comodo) for mine .. I have never ran into any problems and they are only $49 bucks. Also note that you need to be using your own IP address for ssl (they don't work in a shared hosting enviornment).

Transverse Styles how is paypal so easy to fraud?? I think that they are one of the biggest transaction players in the market right now .. their API and reporting tools are pretty good. Right now even authoize.net doesn't do international address verification (verisign is one of the only ones .. but even for that it's hugely expensive).

Where's the setting at?

For PayPal Account Optional to work with your account, you must have a Premier or Business account, and you must have Account Optional enabled in your Profile. To check your settings, log in to your PayPal account, click on the Profile link, and then click on Website Payment Preferences. The Account Optional setting is near the bottom of that page.

Yep, see... I think I'll stick to normal PayPal.

PayPal is easy to fraud because people reply to the "Update your information" E-Mails.

It's not paypal's fault that people are stupid.. you could send out fraudulent emails with absolutely any payment processor ..

I know... but online payment is generally easy to fraud.

There was a topic in the forum months ago about how IPS catches fraud.