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PayPal Certified Integration

This shopping cart has been tested by PayPal and certified as fully compatible with their systems.

 

Using PayPal with our Shopping Cart

An account with a payment processor is required to take payments with our shopping cart. The simplest and quickest one to setup is currently the PayPal Payments Standard. More experienced merchants may consider Payments Pro and Express.

Aimed at small businesses and merchants, it allows you to accept debit and credit cards. Customers can make purchases without a PayPal account. No setup fees. It is simple to join with a easy setup as well as been fully compatible with our shopping cart.  See the setup page here.


PayPal Payments Standard (Easiest option)

This is the simplest version of our program and the one recommended for beginners. It connects to PayPal's own PCI compliant secure server means you do not need one of your own thus lowering costs. The shopping cart from this site this site provides an easy to use interface for the PayPal Payments Standard.

Requirements

  • PayPal Premier or Business Account
    To accept credit card payments a Premier or Business Account is required. This is free to join and you can either apply for a new one or upgrade your personal account.

  • PayPal Merchant Account ID
    To connect the shopping cart with PayPal just enter the merchant account ID  or the email address that you registered with PayPal into the setup program.  All then that remains is to enter the details of the products you wish to sell and upload them to your website.

  • Our Shopping Cart
    Once you have an appropriate account and merchant id, go to our easy shopping cart download page to find out how to build your online store.


PayPal Payments Pro (For more experienced merchants.)

The customers stays on your website at all times during the checkout process. It allows full customization of the order page including background and logos.

Requirements
  • PayPal Premier or Business Account
    You can use the same account that you have for PayPal Payments standard.

  • Secure Server Certificate
    If you host the order form on your own server, you will require a SSL certificate to make the secure connect connection and encrypt the credit card details. If you do not have a secure server, we can however set the order form up on ours and we will customize the order form to match the look of your site.

  • API Credentials
    These identify your shopping cart to PayPal and consist of an API username, password and signature. The signature is a set of encrypted characters that you can obtain by logging in to your PayPal account.


PayPal Express Checkout


This is usually used together with Payments Pro to provide a PayPal alternative to customers who do not wish to pay with credit or debit cards. The customer is taken to the PayPal website to confirm the order but they are returned to your site to complete the payment process.

Requirements

  • As for Payments Pro.
    See above for details.


PayPal Costs

Low Rates
Premier and Business Accounts are charged either the Standard or Merchant rate based on volume. All Premier and Business Accounts start at the Standard Rate until they qualify for the Merchant Rate.

  Standard Rate Merchant Rate
US Dollars U.S. Dollars 2.9% + $0.30 1.9% - 2.9% + $0.30
Canadian Dollars Canadian Dollars 2.9% + $0.30 1.9% - 2.9% + $0.30
Euro Euros (Ireland) 3.4% + € 0.35 1.9% - 3.4% + € 0.35
UK Pounds Pounds Sterling 3.4% + £0.20 1.4% - 3.4% + £0.20
Australian Dollars Australian Dollars 2.4% + $0.30 1.1% - 2.4% + $0.30


If you wish to take orders with credit cards, a PayPal Premier or Business account is required. You can upgrade without charge from your Personal account if you already have one.

 

No Programming
There is no complex JavaScript or HTML to configure and it can operate from any type of web server.
Requires no ASP or PHP. All form variables are automatically setup and configured for the merchant.