Paypal

[Anon]

Can i use paypal on my site without actually showing and redirecting to paypal. Can i take the users deatils and post them to paypal and get the accept or decline and go from there?

Regards
Julian Chamberlain
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[cordex]

I don't believe paypal allows this. In fact, paypal doesn't allow a lot of things. I've been looking for a quality online payment alternative because of my dissatisfaction with paypal's service.

[Anon]

I have seen similar things in ASP? It must be possible? What exactlty is wrong with Paypal, i have thinking of using them. i would like to hear any adverse opinions and examples.

Also http://www.2checkout.com is a great affordable alternative.

Regards
Julian Chamberlain
hungrybear.co.uk

[cordex]

The PayPal system wasn't designed for businesses. It was designed to provide a cheap way for the average person to transfer funds online and then they tried to form business models from the same mold - in my opinion, unsuccessfully. When all you have is a hammer, all your problems start to look like a nail. Thus, they rely on name recognition and volume rather then large fees. They don't encourage thier "business" models to allow users to merely submit information on the business website because they want users to have to visit their page. This, in addition to security concerns and their product restrictions (they don't allow the sale of many completely legal items such as software, certain firearms related products and many more) have been sufficient to cause me to look elsewhere for a payment option. I'll check out www.2checkout.com (no pun intended).

-Ben