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I know some people are adamently against PayPal, but their merchant services aren't a bad deal.
For those who use them, anything that they are missing? Things you wish they offered but don't? Do they have invoices? Any form of inventory management? Thanks!
We use them and aside from not being able to test before going live and a few changes they have made over time that broke our shopping cart software we are pretty happy with them. It sure beats a merchant account that charges you up the wazoo.
I have been looking at PayPal Merchant Services as well. It appears that they are the cheapest to start off with.
What Shopping cart are you planning on using. I have been looking at WA ecart, cart weaver, and a couple of others. I have found out that there are some that do not work with Paypal Merchant Services.
I am thinking about using Mal's Ecommerce cart. Anyone had any luck with it?
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Just use paypal shopping cart, over mals ecommerce. They are both outside carts hosted by outside companies. There is no use in using mals if you are just going to hook it up to paypal.
i just switched my storefront to Shopify.com's freebie. it has inventory control. Sweet eh? it takes 3% commission. and highly customizable and professional looking. compared to my former, hand coded html, it defintely looks better... and also integrates google checkout. if you are like me and just strating out and need to keep costs down... this is awesome.
i just switched my storefront to Shopify.com's freebie. it has inventory control. Sweet eh? it takes 3% commission. and highly customizable and professional looking. compared to my former, hand coded html, it defintely looks better... and also integrates google checkout. if you are like me and just strating out and need to keep costs down... this is awesome.
Well you still have to use a merchant (which is PayPal or Google). Otherwise Shopify is very cool. Now if they could only do both storefronts / cart system, and the merchant services!
the only problem with paypal is the customer has to take that extra step to buy your merchandise. take two steps if they don't have a paypal account. you have to have a really desirable product if people are going to go through the hassle of registering and going through a 3rd party to buy yoru shirts. merchant accounts are the way to go imo. even though they charge premiums it's muchmore convenient for the customer.
the only problem with paypal is the customer has to take that extra step to buy your merchandise. take two steps if they don't have a paypal account. you have to have a really desirable product if people are going to go through the hassle of registering and going through a 3rd party to buy yoru shirts.
Just to clarify, customers *do not* need to sign up for a Paypal account in order to buy from you using a credit card.
If you have "Website Payments Standard", when your customers are ready to pay, they will be redirected to the Paypal website. This can be confusing for people who haven't used Paypal before, but if you explain the checkout process on your website FAQ page you shouldn't have too many problems.
"Website Payments Pro" allows you to process payments without redirecting your customers to the Paypal website. It's more seamless and easier for inexperienced shoppers to use, but it costs more to implement.
website payment pros seems like a convenient way to process a transaction. my site will be accepting paypal but and i was under the impression that they had to sign up or be redirected to the paypal site which would be a minor inconvenience to the customer. but if the designs are nice enough i'm sure the customer would go to any lengths to get the product anyways
On an unrelated note, I think I've posted more today than in the last few weeks combined. I'm so busy with work and school, sigh.
I went over half a year without posting, it happens
As far as Paypal goes, I think the main thing you want to do if you use them is to regularily drain your Paypal account into your bank account. This will help to make sure you have your money in the off chance Paypal decides to freeze your account or such (that they're now semi-infamous for).
PayPal Merchant Services, use it? 
