I currently operate a WebHosting Company. I was wondering if PayPal is enough if one wants to pay VIA Credit Card. Why wouldn't anyone just use PayPal?
Paypal is great but do not use only one ecommerce facilitator, give yourself some alternative maybe moneybooker etc as a backup, just in case if anything were to happen, you will have a backup to fall back on.
Paypals very good, but some people prefer to use others like it, so you would be doing well to offer another alternative. Also as wisdomtool has pointed out, a backup one won't do you any harm.
some people hate paypal out of principle. offering another option is nice, especially if you don't need an account to pay.
Well if people hate paypal let them you PaybyCash systems it makes those without credit cards able to pay by paypal. Im still new to using it but.. Id love to see more of them around there easy and fast to work with. But thats my opinion.
There is nothing wrong in including Paypal as a payment option but if you are serious about your business, you should really not consider it as the only means of payment. Use 2checkout.com which are made for virtual products and services such as web hosting. Paypal is good for its core purpose, that is online auction payments.
Hello! I am using PayPal because I am selling/buying on eBay. By the way, Paypal wasn't created for eBay. PayPal was an independent company which at some point in time eBay bought it, and this is why now PayPal is part of eBay. I also use PayPal in websites outside of eBay. I just go and customize a PayPal button on PayPal merchant tools and I use it where I need it: other website, landing pages, memberships sites, newsletter sites. It is a great tool for money processing and with the changes implemented in 2007 such as "security key", it really is 99.99% safe to use it. You can offer 2 choices PayPal being one of them, just for your piece of mind, but PayPal is extremely easy and secure to use. Regards Michisor
We've been analyzing what people pay with for the last 3 years, and based on our stats, we get about 90% of our sales on a credit card, 8% on Paypal, and 2% on Google Checkout. The ratio that you will see is largely dependent on your market, but if you are remotely B2B, I can guarantee that you will lose sales by only accepting Paypal. If you plan on only selling to entrepreneurs, and webmasters, then you may get away with it, but to require a corporation to use paypal is a guarantee that they will find another company. As suggested it is extremely easy to use, and easy to setup so it's not a bad idea to start with just it, but most likely you will want to add a more traditional credit card acceptance method. Personally, I recommend using as many methods as fit in with your business model, and technical ability, because it's not worth it to lose a customer because they cant pay you the way they want to.
I know that Paypal was not created by eBay and that is why I avoided mentioning that. However, from the beginning Paypal geared their services for online auctions and thus became the interest of eBay who subsequently bought it. Typically, anyone who can sign up for a Paypal account would require a credit card to fund and/or verify their account. Apart from those who uses VCC and unverified members, your customers would inevitably have credit cards to use. The year before, I did try using Paypal as an additional payment method but found that it is quite problematic with a lot more disputes than the Plimus and Regsoft I was using. Paypal payments basically make up of about 5% of my customer base. It is not really much to justify using it exclusively. Now that Plimus supports Paypal, I do get about 1 or 2 customers who pays by paypal a month.
Always at least have two payment gateways. One being paypal, another which would also be popular, but keep in mind a lot of people like to use internet gateways instead of giving you their credit card info
If your looking for a secondary processor and are just starting out, I'd choose a company with a good affiliate system. A merchant account could work for you but if your a new/small business you might want to wait on it.