New in version 3.6x: If your PayPal account is a "Personal" account, then the customer links to the PayPal site for payment from the invoice screen. However, if your PayPal account is either a "Business" or "Premier" PayPal account, this module guides the customer to the PayPal payment screens so that they do not get to the invoice screen without properly entering pay data. When the customer clicks the Pay button at the PayPal site, you can have the PayPal Instant Payment Notification send a silent update back to your payment history file which can be viewed in your Merchant admin:order edit screen. This module also maintains Addendum (additional checkout responses) while the customer is transported to the PayPal site for payment. Other PayPal payment modules which transport the customer to the PayPal site do not preserve the Addendum responses. At this time, you can only use this module in conjunction with non-secure Addendum responses. If you are collecting Addendum responses which must remain secure, you will need to use a version of the PayPal module which will not have these new features. Contact us before ordering if that is the case. In addition to new features, the admin screen has new inputs, e.g. you can add additional instructions to inform customers what to expect at the PayPal site.

The 3.6x version works with Merchant 2.x, 3.x and 4.x (Miva Engine 3.9x required for Merchant 4.x). We have sent free upgrades if you licensed our PayPal module on or after May 1, 2001. If you licensed before May 1, 2001 you can upgrade for a reduced upgrade price by entering your previous order number into the space provided.

Although the PayPal system is not like real time credit card processing and authorization systems, it is more like using the simple credit card validation. PayPal does the authorization and sends you a confirmation email. You match the Merchant notification emails with the PayPal confirmation emails. For added security, it is advisable to check the status on the PayPal web site (linked within Merchant admin). Once confirmations are verified that the money has transferred to your account, you can ship the products.

The Merchant version 2.x, 3.x and 4.x PayPal payment module can be used with both the MMUI and OpenUI look and feel. A single edit is needed if you are using the MMUI and your PayPal account is a "Personal" account. If you have a "Business" or "Premier" PayPal account, the MMUI edit is NOT needed. An optional code edit can be also made to include the payment method in the merchant notification email. You may find it advantageous to use our Show Payment Type module instead which lists all payment methods in the email, not just PayPal. No code edits are needed if you are using the OpenUI for either the PayPal or Show Payment Type modules.

Online overview, initial setup instructions, module configuration help and editing instructions are button clicks away from this screen and the admin screen within the module for Merchant version 3.x and 4.x.

This module is particularly useful for the small sized Mom and Pop store which does not want the added expense of setting up Merchant credit card accounts and having to meet minimum sales quotas. This store is a prime example, as I do not take credit cards directly. Rather you can pay for software at this store using PayPal, by signing up and debiting your credit card at PayPal. Try it out, I think you'll like it.

Additionally, it is a nice option for the big guys in that it makes online fulfillment possible for those customers who don't have credit cards but have built up an online balance through their own sales, eg. through Ebay.

As an additional incentive to offer PayPal at your store, for a limited time, affiliates have been receiving $5 bonus from PayPal for getting customers to set up an account and use their credit cards through PayPal. That offer could be withdrawn at any time, but at present it is an added bonus. Your referral of three new customers signing up and charging with their credit card through you more than pays for the cost of this module. PayPal accounts are available to customers in the United States and many other countries around the world.

Because some people will signup for PayPal through our affiliation link below, and thus earn us a $5 bonus, our price for this PayPal payment module is only $20. It gets better. PayPal is currently giving you $5 to sign up and make a charge using your credit card. So do the math. Signup, order this $20 module and let PayPal pay $5 of the cost. How long this will last is anybody's guess, so don't wait too long.

If you are not familiar with how PayPal works, check it out. If you like it, sign up, then add this payment option to your store.

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