Lunchbox G4 <lunchboxg4@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am working on a site, and the people its for are asking about a way of
>collecting money online. Doing an onsite shopping cart is not a
>possibility right now, so I'm looking towards PayPal (or similar)
>integration. I've read up on PayPal's site about integrating their API
>and suck, but as of yet no practical experience. Has anyone out there
>had experience doing this? Is it the best bet? Successes, failures,
>anything would be appreciated. Thanks, all.

It's a bit verbose, but it is easy and flexible. You can have them track
the shopping cart piece by piece, or you can put the whole thing together
yourself and ship it all to PayPal in one chunk. If you have addresses,
you can even send those to prepopulate the forms for people who do not
already have PayPal accounts.

Their fees are just about the same as for a normal merchant account.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.