Paypal Payment only possible when Credit Card

Hi,

I am testing my payment form and when I log into another PAypal Account to pay for the 0.01 Eur that is set up for testing purposes Paypal tells me that I can only pay if I have a CC registered with my account – allthough i have some 5 Euros on my Paypal Account.

1. Can you clarify if people can only upgrade their membership by paying with a paypal account with added CC. If not how to I set it up that it Takes Paypal money?
2. Also how can I make possible that people can pay without registering a new paypal Account

Thank you!

Thank-you for your inquiry.

It sounds like what you’re running into here is that PayPal will not allow transactions to go through on an unverifyed PayPal account. This is a security feature of PayPal meant to keep people from making PayPal account under fake names, or put in false data into their PayPal accounts.

To get around this, you need to link your PayPal account with a bank account. You should be prompted to do this when you log in at http://paypal.com/.

After your PayPal account is verified, you should be able to perform transactions the same way you do on your main PayPal account.

Note that this is a feature that PayPal puts forth and is not a part of s2Member’s verification processes.

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Also how can I make possible that people can pay without registering a new paypal Account

You can do this by changing the accept_via_paypal attribute to include credit cards.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)