>You might want to check out PayPal's Website Payments Pro. It's a fairly >new offering from PayPal and it may do what you want. Customers don't >leave your web site. From what I can tell, it doesn't require you to >have a credit card merchant account or to have to use a separate payment >gateway system like Authorizenet.
While it's true that the Direct Pay portion of Payments Pro does not leave your website, PayPal does require that you also use Express Checkout which does take the customer to their site if you sign up for Payments Pro. Basically, they don't want to just process payments, they want that free advertising where your website has a "easy payments through PayPal" button on it. Now, I'm sure many individual sites that use Payments Pro just ignore that requirement and use Direct Pay only but they are in violation of the licensing by doing so. Not sure how well PayPal polices this part of the policy, and I can say that the Express Checkout is a real pain to do. It requires no less than 3 separate SOAP transactions to their server, sometimes more, and it sends the customer over to their site and then back to yours. And hides their billing information so you're out of luck if you intend to save this information. I would say PayPal is one of the harder methods to get working *if* you want the customer to complete orders on your site. It's fine if you are happy with just a simple button on your site that sends them over to PayPal to complete the transaction and doesn't need to do any more. But to fully integrate PayPal into a true ecommerce site is pretty complicated and guaranteed to cause a fair amount of hair-pulling. ;-) -------------------- Mary Jo Sminkey http://www.cfwebstore.com CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246667 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
