PayPal Guide
Help Topics
- What Is PayPal
- Why Use PayPal As Your Online Payments Processor
- Opening A Free PayPal Website Payments Standard Account
What Is PayPal
PayPal, the trusted leader in online payments, enables buyers and businesses to send and receive money online. PayPal has over 100 million member accounts in 190 countries and regions. It's accepted by merchants everywhere, both on and off eBay.
Is it safe to use?
PayPal helps protect your credit card information with industry-leading security and fraud prevention systems.
Why use PayPal?
- PayPal has a low transaction fee of .30 cents or 1.9 - 2.9% of the total transaction, which ever is greater.
- PayPal Business Website Payment Standards account has no monthly fee.
- PayPal refunds it's transaction fee in the event you need to refund a sale. Thus the transaction cost you nothing.
- PayPal works with all e-commerce templates. It is the only transaction gateway that Dreamflex installs for free.
- PayPal is accepted by millions of businesses worldwide and is the preferred payment method on eBay
Opening A FREE PayPal Business Website Payments Standard Account
Upgrade your existing PayPal account or create a new PayPal account to accept credit card payments on your web site.
- Click the PayPal box in the right column of any Dreamflex page to go directly to the PayPal.com web site.
- Select a PayPal Business Account.
- Select Website Payments Standard
- Follow the rest of the PayPal prompts to enter your personal information and validate your account.
All Dreamflex e-commerce solutions use the PayPal Business Website Payments Standard Account default settings. This means that you do not need to configure any of the e-commerce shopping cart settings of your account.
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