Paypal Website Payments Standard was recently released in the Smith Cart.
The advantages of using Paypal standard are:
- No merchant account required, you can use your regular paypal account
- No SSL required since the user enters their credit card info on paypal
- No PCI compliance to worry about
- No monthly fee. One caveat is that if you process more then $500/month in credit cards it is cheaper to get a real merchant account even with the monthly fee. The reason is because paypal charges 3% +30 cents per transaction.
To configure Smith Cart to work with Paypal Standard you need to populate the following module settings:
Gateway – choose paypal website payments standard
- Merchant – enter your paypal email address
- Merchant Logo URL – path to your company logo. Will show up on the paypal checkout screen.