About: John Sefton

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If you want to accept credit cards on-site and have them processed through PayPal, you’ll need to have a PayPal Pro account. The alternative to accepting credit cards without requiring your customer to have a PayPal account would be to enable that feature on PayPal’s side. The customer would check out with PayPal, click the button that says “I don’t have a PayPal account”, and would then fill out their credit card details on PayPal’s site.

Just to clarify, I don’t care about keeping people on-site, I am happy for them to go off to Paypal. The way I understood it was people could pay by card if they didn’t have a PP account anyway, is this not the case? Does the box not appear for “I don’t have a paypal account” if you just select paypal as a payment method?

I guess what I want to know is do I need to explicitly specify the “accept_via_paypal” card options in order for people to be able to go off to paypal and use their card? Is this what you mean by “enable that feature on PayPal’s side”?

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