Paypal Website Payments Solution

Accept pay­ments on your site with­out redi­rect­ing through Paypal's interface.

Update: June 23 2005
Google con­firms its online pay­ment inter­est but says it has no plans to take on Paypal.

On the heels of Google Wal­let comes Paypal's announce­ment to launch a web pay­ment sys­tem that will allow site own­ers to offer paid con­tent with­out their read­ers hav­ing to leave the site. eBay made US$ 233 mil­lion with Pay­pal in the first quar­ter of 2005 so the busi­ness mer­its are clear.

In plain Eng­lish, Pay­pal is now offer­ing pay­ment pro­cess­ing capa­bil­i­ties of a mer­chant account and gate­way, like one from World­pay or 2Checkout, with­out the added has­sle of redi­rect­ing through an exter­nal website.

Cur­rently, if you want your site to offer paid con­tent, you can use Pay­pal but your site's users have to pass through a Pay­pal inter­face. With Web­site Pay­ments Pro, that'd be unnec­es­sary. Here's how Pay­pal describes it:

Paypal Website Payments Pro

The Pay­pal site pro­vides a handy demo so you can get a good sense for how this works.

  • http://[email protected] Herb Robert­son

    Hi, I'm a jazz musi­cian and I would like to sale direct from my web­site my last CD through Pay­pal. Could you please help me and tell me what's the best option? Please email a copy of the answer to my agent and site admin­ista­tor : Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez

    [email protected]

    Thanks,
    Herb Robertson

  • Baron Turner

    Web­site Pay­ments are OK — but there are prob­lems — the field to send item descrip­tions gets mixed up depend­ing on the land­ing page at Pay­pal. See out site on http://www.barondesechecs.com — chess set sales — where check­ing out has issues. Any solu­tions welcome.

  • Rohit

    Please some­one help me with PAYPAL PRO WEBSITE Inte­gra­tion. I Use Shop­ping Cart with PHP

    If u some sam­ple code in PHP Please send me .

    Regards
    Rohit