Integration With PayPal
To accept payments online, you can integrate the PayPal payment processing system into your online store. Online shoppers will be able to pay for their purchases using credit cards directly from your web page.
If you, as the store owner, want to accept credit card and bank account payments from shoppers, use the integrated PayPal payment system at your online store. For this, you should have a merchant account at PayPal (www.paypal.com). Therefore, register at PayPal. On the official PayPal web site, you can find more information about PayPal services for online store owners.
To integrate your e-store with the PayPal payment system:
- In the Shop Editor, open the PayPal tab where you should customize PayPal-related settings.
- In the PayPal E-mail field, enter the e-mail of your PayPal account (in PayPal, all accounts are attached to e-mails).
- From the PayPal currency of the payment drop-down list, select the currency unit for payments through PayPal.
- If you want to charge a fee for handling PayPal-based orders, in the PayPal Handling field, enter the fixed fee that will be charged for processing a single order. This fee does not depend on the number of goods in the shopping cart. The specified sum will be added to the total sum of the shopping cart. If no sum is entered, the fee for handling orders will not be charged.
- Specify the shipping rates for shipping goods purchased by customers:
- If you want to charge a fixed shipping rate, in the PayPal Shipping field enter the fixed amount charged for shipping an order, regardless of the number and weight of purchased items. If you leave this field blank and specify the per-item shipping fee (see below), the shipping fee will be charged per item. If you leave this field blank and do not specify the per-item shipping fee as well, no shipping fee will be charged.
- If you want to charge a fee for shipping every item in the shopping cart, in the PayPal Shipping Per Item field specify the amount charged for shipping a single item. The total shipping fee will be the specified per-item fee multiplied by the number of items in the shopping cart.
- In the PayPal Tax field, specify the amount of taxes applied to the transaction, regardless of the buyer's location. The value in this field overrides other tax settings in your PayPal Profile. If you leave this field blank, the tax rates specified in your PayPal Profile will be applied.
- Click Apply.
Note: The PayPal settings specified in the SiteBuilder Wizard override the respective settings in your PayPal Profile! Therefore, if you want to apply the Profile settings, leave the above fields blank.