Comments on: When PayPal Just Doesn’t Cut It

By: Irene Karava

Irene Karava — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:26:01 +0000

Hi My Name is Irene

I live in Toronto, Ontario

I would like to know were I can get a PayPal Card.

Thank you,Kindly

Irene

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:57 +0000

Hi Roy,

If you want to use a gateway other than PayPal or 2Checkout, you will need to have both a merchant account and a payment gateway account. Most gateways, such as Authorize.net will set you up with a Merchant Account if you don’t already have one.

I hope that helps,
Levi

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:52:27 +0000

“A significant number, however, are applying for an online merchant account and a payment gateway”

do i need both a merchant account and a payment gateway? i just see different merchant account providers such as verisign but do i have to sign up with some gateway provider?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:02:25 +0000

Paypal Express has a bug. Google “paypal express blank” and enjoy the reading. Right now when I click the PayPal logo, instead of being redirected to the PayPal server, I get a blank page. …

By: Accepting online payments - a how to guide

Accepting online payments - a how to guide — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:20:14 +0000

[...] PayPal Standard: This is the basic PayPal account. To start collecting on your FreshBooks invoices with PayPal Standard, you just need to enter your PayPal ID in your FreshBooks settings. When you send an invoice, there will be a link to pay and it will take your customer to a confirmation page that shows the total amount and provides a link to PayPal. Your customer then clicks that button and follows the instructions on PayPal’s site to pay the invoice. After they complete their payment, they must click “Return to Merchant,” at which point they’re directed back to FreshBooks and your invoice gets updated as “paid.” You can see a demonstration of this entire process in this blog post. [...]

By: lisa Milward

lisa Milward — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:48:30 +0000

A few months ago I decided that I did not want anything to do with paypal beacuse of their excessive charges etc.
Eventually my account became inactive whcih meant I could no longer make payments using paypal but it also meant I could not close the paypal account. By this time I had cancelled my credit cards. To cut a long story short a client of mine accidentally made a payment into my paypal account rather than my bank account whcih resulted in me not having access to the funds in the account. I asked Paypal to refund the client but they refused unless I re-registered my credit card details with them and made my paypal account active again. Unfortunately i do not have a credit card anymore. I have explained this to them but they keep on insisting thatI need to provide a credit card to access the funds in my account to refund the client.
Paypal are a big con. They will limit your account when making payments but accept any payments into the account without hesitation. They are basically blackmailing me into providing a credit card which I no longer have.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can settle this?
Thanks everyone!

Lisa

By: Why Bother With Credit Cards?

Why Bother With Credit Cards? — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:02:56 +0000

[...] isn’t worth it until you reach a critical mass of customers, or maybe you could start by just accepting PayPal. Either way, you owe it to your business to do your [...]

By: Levi Cooperman

Levi Cooperman — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:03:01 +0000

Hi Nabil,

Exactly which service did you upgrade to?

If you upgraded to Payflow Pro (the old VeriSign), then you can use FreshBooks recurring billing, just enter your information into the VeriSign area.

If you upgraded to PayPal Website Payments Pro, then it does not support recurring billing with FreshBooks because PayPal decided that all transactions require the 3 digit CVV code on the back of the card…which by law cannot be stored for more than 24 hours; therefore, recurring billing cannot be done. Not yet anyway. However, you can still use it with FreshBooks, just enter your information and upload your certificate into the PayPal Website Payments Pro area.

Clear as mud?

- Levi

By: Nabil

Nabil — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:37:18 +0000

I’m confused, I’ve just ‘upgraded’ to PayPal Pro and it does support recurring payments. As well as this, there is place to put in the proper PayPal Pro API’s in freshbooks – does this not work for recurring payments?

By: Sean Martin

Sean Martin — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:40:34 +0000

We currently use PayPal pro. We’ve talked about replacing it with Authorize.net, but the majority of our clients actually ASK to pay with PayPal, so we are finding it difficult to move to another payment processor. For now, we’re going to stick with it because that’s what our clients want.