PayPal Integration with On-Rev

[Andre Garzia]

Richard,

you're again completely correct, I just bought myself a new board game
because the shop accepted paypal and I could not help myself...

:D

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Nicolas Cueto wrote:
>
>> You are right about the "Mom Test", and that PayPal is not as
>> straightforward as they'd like us to think. So I had a look at your
>> webstore to see how you handle payments, and was curious about how you
>> enable Visa card payments.
>>
>
> Agreed: for non-PayPal transactions, PayPal can be a bit daunting.  And
> since most hosting companies include a free shopping cart (ZenCart and Miva
> Merchant are both useful and very extensible) it's not too hard to set up a
> good payment system these days.
>
> But for folks who use PayPal, it's really hard to beat the convenience and
> very worthwhile offering it as an option.
>
> My customers beat me up for many months asking for a PayPal option, and the
> whole time I was thinking, "Why does this matter when we already accept most
> major credit cards easily enough?"
>
> Then I added a PayPal option, and I learned:
>
> Because PayPal accounts are separate from one's banking and credit card
> accounts, it doesn't feel like spending real money.  It feels like play
> money.  And the PayPal UI for account holders is dirt-simple and ultra
> convenient.
>
> In short, PayPal makes it very easy and encouraging for other PayPal
> customers to give you money.  And there are a lot of them.
>
> Once I added a PayPal option my sales when up about 8%.
>
> And as a customer, I find myself more inclined to make impulse purchases
> when I find a PayPal payment option.  With anything else, I need to evaluate
> whether it's worth the time to get out of my chair to dig up a credit card
> and do all that typing.
>
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