Pay Pal Enabled Shopping Cart

One way to add a shopping cart to your online business is through a Pay Pal enabled shopping cart. If you currently have a Pay Pal merchant account, the only costs associated with this shopping cart feature are the transaction fees generated by the customer payments to your merchant account. In essence, this adds up to no additional cost to you. A few features of a Pay Pal enabled shopping cart are discussed below.

Ease of Implementation
One benefit of a Pay Pal enabled shopping cart for merchants is that it can be easily added to your current online store. Pay Pal supplies the html code necessary to place a variety of buttons on your site that will allow customers to add items to their Pay Pal enabled shopping cart. If you currently have Buy Now buttons on your site, they can be quickly and easily converted to Pay Pal buttons using the provided code.

Payment by non-Pay Pal Members
As a merchant member, your Pay Pal enabled shopping cart allows your customers to pay using Pay Pal even if they don’t have their own Pay Pal account. This works well for your customers who don’t yet have a Pay Pal account and don’t want to take the time to sign up for one before being able to make a purchase from your online store. As a merchant on Pay Pal, you have the option to provide this feature or to only accept payment from those customers who have established their own Pay Pal accounts.

Detailed Transaction Records
To help you with your record keeping, Pay Pal maintains a detailed record including all transactions made by customers using your Pay Pal enabled shopping cart. This allows you to keep track of your customers and the payments they have made to your online store. It also allows you to go back later and access the details of all of transactions in case you missed transferring one to your business’s accounting program.

Pre-populate Customer Fields
If you already operate an online store and want to convert to using a Pay Pal enabled shopping cart, you can enter past customer’s information into Pay Pal. This allows the shopping cart to pre-populate the fields in a customer’s sign up page once you make the switch to using Pay Pal. This is a simple tool that has your customer doing less additional input as a result of your making the transition.

Merchant Support
Pay Pal offers several mediums for support for their merchant accounts and Pay Pal enabled shopping carts. They provide their users with a PDF manual that explains the features of the shopping cart as well as necessary html code. They also offer tutorial videos to walk a merchant through the process of using their shopping cart and payment options.

These are just a few of the features offered with a Pay Pal enabled shopping cart associated with a merchant Pay Pal account. For more information visit www.paypal.com.