Paypal

[jackiemj]

I have been looking on Paypal to see what options they have for me to use them on my site.

They have a standard business option to use their easy check out system where customers don't need a paypay and can pay with their debit/credit cards too....also..

They have just the basic button for just paypal users only...but..

Each one comes with a fee of course, which is priced per transaction via my site...which I think is quite expensive when first starting out. It works out to be £3.60 for each £100 transaction up to £1500.00 of sales per month...but goes down as your earn more. To work for me, it would mean I would have to put more money on my product prices to make up for this...not alone to make up for dropshipping prices.

What is the option out there for me to use Paypal or from other peoples experience??

 

[dx3webs]

The transaction prices on paypal are quite high however, the entry price is nothing. You can go through the process of setting up an alternative (I am sure there will be a few of the gateway companies about to speak up) but they generally cost x amount per month regardless of your sales. You need to weigh up the costs.. if you are selling high value items then you will probably benefit from an alternative to paypal.

 

[dynamic08]

I would not bother taking paypal. You WILL run into problems with them trust me and thousands of others.

 

[deadgoodundies]

Always best in my opinion to run both a regular card processing option AND paypal as a secondary payment option.

 

[lynxus]

Maybe look into Google checkout?

 

[jackiemj]

I would not bother taking paypal. You WILL run into problems with them trust me and thousands of others.

Why do you say that??

Always best in my opinion to run both a regular card processing option AND paypal as a secondary payment option.

What would you reccomment as a card processing option?

Maybe look into Google checkout?

I've not heard of that before, wouldn't it mean that customers would have to sign up with this if not already? it might put them off.

 

[dynamic08]

Google checkout I found was a waste of time But I would still offer it.

Why do I say that because they have held onto thousands of pounds of my money for 180 days in the past and as we speak. They are cowboys no two ways about it.

Get your self a merchant account and don't look back!

 

[jackiemj]

Yeah I know what you're saying, I have read other posts online about Paypal not being that brilliant and messing people around.

I've just checked out the transaction prices for Google Checkout and they are the same as Paypal.

 

[Bill1954]

Yeah, Google checkout started out with excellent rates until they got established, then the rates shot up. That was the point at which we left them and got a merchant account and we have never looked back. There are a few payment providers on this forum who, I'm sure, will post in this thread shortly, listen to what they have to say and good luck.

 

[jackiemj]

Yeah, Google checkout started out with excellent rates until they got established, then the rates shot up. That was the point at which we left them and got a merchant account and we have never looked back. There are a few payment providers on this forum who, I'm sure, will post in this thread shortly, listen to what they have to say and good luck.

Yeah, that's always the way with anything new, as soon as they gather their customers and get bigger, it all changes.

I still might stick with paypal though....but if anyone else comes up other options that's fine

 

[bdw]

I would not bother taking paypal.

That would be good advice if you want to debar a massive amount of potential customers and incidentally no one needs to be a PayPal member to make a purchase with a credit card.

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[Mike tells it like it is]

That would be good advice if you want to debar a massive amount of potential customers and incidentally no one needs to be a PayPal member to make a purchase with a credit card.

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I have to agree. Most people(buyers) trust paypal as they are a household name they have heard of.

There are countless industry sectors where one brand gets the lion's share of the sales even though they are carp and other's are far superior in quality.

I could mention them but won't due to this country's multi billion liable tourism industry.


Trying to change a mindset is extremely difficult even for the world's bets marketers-that is why most marketers don't try to change a mindset but manipulate what is already there.

My advice ...

Stick with Paypal.

 

[shopintegrator]

Hi,

I agree with Mike and many others here about PayPal being a popular option shoppers like to use so one not to dismiss too quickly. PayPal is a great way for a merchant to get started as there is no monthly fee, which is why your per-transaction fees are higher.

They have just the basic button for just paypal users only...but..

If you want to use PayPal to get started but create a more advanced online shop, then you may want to consider starting off using an alternative hosted shopping basket add-on for your website ecommerce buttons, instead of the basic PayPal buttons and basic PayPal shopping cart. It also means you have an easy way to switch your online shop to process payments via another payment processor once your transaction volume increases, instead of having to re-work your online shop in the future, as you could simply switch payment processors at the click of a button.

You could achieve this with the ShopIntegrator hosted shopping basket add-on where you simply copy and paste your ecommerce buttons in to your web pages in a similar approach you would take to copy and pasting PayPal buttons in to your website. Your shoppers would still make their secure payments to you via PayPal at the final credit/debit card payment entry, but you wouldn't use the PayPal shopping cart, you'd have the ShopIntegrator shopping basket instead. At a future, date you could simply re-connect your shop checout to another payment processor, like Sage Pay for instance and offer your customers secure checkout through Sage Pay in to your merchant account and turn off the Pay Pal secure checkout option, or keep it and offer your customers the choice.