PayPal Web Pay Standard ????

[bpchapin]

Greetings All,

I have been in the tech industry for 28 years and consider myself a pretty sharp guy - however, I have been reading, experimenting and research about VirtueMart and PayPal for Credit Card processing for days and I still cannot determine three simple things: {well clearly and definitively anyway}

1.Can you use VirtueMart and PayPal Website Payment STANDARD to accept credit card payments?

2.Does the customer have to leave my site to do so?

3.Either way - how the heck do I set up the Payment Method?

I am using Joomla 1.5.9 and VirtueMart 1.1.3 stable.

Thanks in advance for any help, input and direction.
Brian

[0zz1]

Hi Brian,

did you figure this out already? Im having same problems... well almost.. I have the payment module set up on my site, but customer have to leave the site to paypal and create paypal account!!! we dont want that right.. i mean they should be able to pay with credit card without registering a paypal account.. i dont mind if they have to leave my site though.. I can leave with that.

This was the answer i got from paypal... doesnt help a lot:

I understand you want to if PayPal can accept credit card payment
without PayPal account.

Please kindly note that PayPal support credit card payment without
PayPal account, but this function may not appear if our security measure
detected potential risk for some payments. So if you can not see that
page of pay by credit card, than you need to sign up PayPal account to
fulfill the payment.

[0zz1]

i found something... i think we need to have website payments pro in use for customer not to leave our site... how to do it in VM no idea but im learning these links now and try to find out:

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/howto_api_paymentspro
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_NVPAPIBasics

and i can already tell you that dont waste your time with paypal customer support as it sucks either they dont know sh*t or they just dont care.

[ajredding]

To answer you questions in order

1.Can you use VirtueMart and PayPal Website Payment STANDARD to accept credit card payments? YES

2.Does the customer have to leave my site to do so? Yes

3.Either way - how the heck do I set up the Payment Method? 
  Have you done any configuration of your payment methods?
  You will want to disable all of the other payment methods so that paypal is the only "Active" payment method.
  There is a stickied guide at the top of this topic that is a run down of how to configure the paypal module.

If you have any questions about it let me know and I'll try to help.