Getting Started with PayPal

We want to start letting our customers make payments with credit and debit cards.

PayPal offers a Standard plan, which has only a per transaction change. This is a good fit for us, because we will be processing only a handful of payments.

• 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.
• Credit Cards
• PayPal

Steps

• Go to https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/paypal-payments-standard
• Choose Get Started for Free, then
• Create New Account , this lets me keep work separate from life. Be sure to use a separate email address from my life email address.
• Login , do this if I want to use an existing account.
• Confirm your email.
• Go to My Account > Overview > My Business Setup > Start Now
• Ignore this step.
• I received a 404. Tech support said I can skip this step for the Standard package.
• Link and confirm bank account (takes 3-5 days.)
• Go to Merchant Services > Create Button
• Create Button , adds a button to the Website; always accepts Credit Card and PayPal.
• Send Invoice , send an invoice by email.
• Express Checkout API ,
• this is just another way to checkout;
• the only advantage over the button is that,
• while the button lets us accepts both Credit Card and PayPal,
• the API can allow us to accept either PayPal, Credit Card, or both.
• If we want only to accept PayPal and not credit cards, then this is the way to go.
• Note , Integrating PayPal more deeply with our site (i.e. never leaving the bigfont.ca URL) requires PayPal Pro, which is $35/month for Canada.