adding a PayPal button to my website
David Berg:
Note to anyone looking for answers in this thread:
You can get the "Buy Now" button code from PayPal via a regular, personal PayPal account. What you can't do is give your customers the option to pay with credit cards -- they have to use PayPal accounts to pay you.
In order to get the other payment options, you need to sell from a Premier or Business account. (I started setting one up, then got a little flumoxed by all the "about your business" questions, which got me thinking about taxes and legalities. Probably just paranoia on my part, but I like to be thorough and know what I'm getting into.)
David Berg:
Sigh... in the interest of not spreading misinformation, I must amend my last post to add:
Some users with some browsers on some operating systems have found ways to pay me with credit cards. However, PayPal only allows me 5 such transactions with a regular account.
Lance D. Allen:
Being that person who did so, it was only through signing in with my paypal account. So your current method still requires the purchaser to have a paypal account, it just gives them the option to pay with debit/credit.
Zonetrooper1:
I'm not sure how much work you want to do to make this happen, but I use Joomla to design and maintain my site. Most of the time, if I want to add a function, I just find a free component or module to add the function to my site. I install it and configure and I'm done. I wanted to do the same thing you are wanting to do so I added a "pay to download" module to my site, which the developer had already configured to work with paypal, so all I needed was an account at paypal. It work perfect. I eventually went in a different direction because I wanted to make things even simpler for my customer. But joomla is really the way to go for someone who wants to spend more time working at being creative than maintaining a website. No, I'm not a joomla spokesmen. I just thought I would pass this on.
David Berg:
Thanks for the info, ZT1. I may check that out at some point. For now, PayPal is working out fine -- I was able to upgrade for free to a Premier Account, which allows unlimited credit card payments.
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