This revisits a topic found in the forums, but even as I review threads I cannot make sense of it.
My site currently utilizes the Simple Commerce Module in conjunction with PayPal Website Payments Pro. This works except when it doesn’t. From what I gather from my customer emails, PayPal is at least lame and possibly evil. Well, clearly paypal discriminates against certain developing countries (where i happen to focus) - it rejects where other systems/merchants would appear to (or should) accept. It is quite something, the venom spewed in regard to paypal; I’ve gotten some angry missives, one fun one from last week “I bet you are losing 25%-30% of your customers to you competitors because of S*** paypal. I am going there now!” (thanks for the scientific precision of +/-5%)
So, what I need to do, is be able to accept payment from either paypal or a credit card (merchant) account (I think?). But I don’t want to replace paypal, I want to add another method.
Does anyone know best practice? (as others notice, paypal support is not, er, supportive)
I am looking at either (i) customer plug in or (2) something like amember
in the case of amember, would that allow for a seamless integration into EE (I’ve seen this wiki entry so login can be integrated) such that (i) I do not force customers to enter their purchase/registration info redundantly, and (ii) they could option, at the point of purchase, for either paypal or another method?
At the end of the day, I’d just like to find the best route to a smooth shopping cart (no redundant input, fewest clicks) and give an alternative to PayPal.
Thanks for any help, David Harper @ www.bionicturtle.com