Paypal payments by credit cards

[seanctc]

I have implemented a new site incorporating virtuemart, for my payment option i just want to use paypal initially instead of setting up merchant account,

The paypal setting i choice in the payment method type is "Credit card" this gives the user to input fields at the bottom of the page for there credit card details,
Am I correct in thinking i would need to incorporate some sort of SSL for this to work?, as it stands it asks the user for the details, I just need some help in what steps to take to make this secure, i'm not saving any card details to my site but it seems i will be sending these details over to paypal,

My end result I want is for the user not to be asked to have or to enter paypal username / details to proceed on the site as this could be a turn off to many users, do I need a paypal payments pro to do this? and to add in some sort of security?, even if there was a way to embed paypal at this stage to take payments from cards? or am i stuck with redirecting the user to paypal site.

Any guidance would be much appreciated.


here is an image of what im trying to achieve, i've set up a paypal sandbox account, can use it when the paypal payment method is set to html-fourm based but not sure if i can test it with this.

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[seanctc]

can i rephrase this question, to simple ask does anyone know an alternative to paypal pro, as I do not want the customer to leave the site to compete a transaction, using merchant services is very costly

[911websiterepair]

paypalpro the customer does not leave your site, you should have the ssl and static ip.

[seanctc]

Sorry geekhead, i ment to add paypal pro is not available in Ireland, any other alternatives?, is it just merchant accounts then or else even if there is a way to style the site the customer gets redirected to paypal.

[911websiterepair]

do you want to skype me    mjones1256

[seanctc]

Hi geekhead thats for the offer  , but i'm pretty sure my only choice is to be redirected to Paypal because I do not want to set up a merchant account and I'm in Ireland where currently Paypal pro is not available (it's not available here? is'nt / was'nt Ireland the Paypal head quaters lol), anyway you may be able to answer this new post I have if you get a chance, much appreciated.

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=90539.0