PAYPAL PAYMENT MODULE 

Product Code: WCW-PAYPAL Price: Check Latest This module allows customers to place an order at a Miva Merchant™ Storefront Development System © Miva Corp which they will then pay for using their PayPal account. This payment module is licensed per domain. No additional store licenses are required if used within the same mall. The current version works with Merchant 2.x, 3.x and 4.x. If your PayPal account is either a "Business" or "Premier" PayPal account, this module guides the customer to the PayPal payment screens so that they do not get to the invoice screen without properly entering pay data. If they are new paypal customers, it pre-loads their customer info from Merchant into their new paypal account. When the customer clicks the Pay button at the PayPal site, the PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) sends a silent update back to your payment history file which can be viewed in your Merchant admin:order edit screen (business and premier accounts). Unlike some other modules, if the customer does not return to Merchant, his order will still be processed and email notifications sent. When returning to your store, the invoice page will be displayed. You can also add additional instructions to inform customers what to expect at the PayPal site through the admin interface. If your PayPal account is a "Personal" account, the flow for payment is a bit different. Contact me if your PayPal account is a "personal" PayPal account and I will give you the details. Although the PayPal system is not like real time credit card processing and authorization systems, it is more like using the simple credit card validation. PayPal does the authorization using it's web accept and sends you a confirmation email and posts the authorization back to your Merchant store. You match the Merchant notification emails with the PayPal confirmation emails. For added security, it is advisable to check the status on the PayPal web site (linked within Merchant admin). Once confirmations are verified that the money has transferred to your account, you can ship the products. The Merchant version 2.x, 3.x and 4.x (uncompiled) PayPal payment module can be used with both the MMUI and OpenUI look and feel. A single edit is needed if you are using the MMUI AND your PayPal account is a "Personal" account. If you have a "Business" or "Premier" PayPal account, the MMUI edit is NOT needed. An optional code edit can be also made to include the payment method in the merchant notification email. You may find it advantageous to use our Show Payment Type module instead which lists all payment methods in the email, not just PayPal. No code edits are needed if you are using the OpenUI for either the PayPal or Show Payment Type modules. Note: This inclusion of payment type in the email cannot be used with Miva Engine version 3.9602 and OpenUI due to a bug in the Miva Empressa Engine. The compiled version of PayPal (Merchant version 4.14 and newer) requires the OpenUI user interface only if you want payment type in the email. Otherwise, OpenUI is not required. Compiled Merchant (4.14 and newer) additional features. New in the compiled version is a report module. You can list orders by any time frame and specify only orders with a specific product code in them. You can also sort it by state or country according to their paypal.com account registration. This module is particularly useful for the small sized Mom and Pop store which does not want the added expense of setting up Merchant credit card accounts and having to meet minimum sales quotas. This store is a prime example, as I do not take credit cards directly. Rather you can pay for software at this store using PayPal, by signing up and debiting your credit card at PayPal. Try it out, I think you'll like it. Additionally, it is a nice option for the big guys in that it makes online payment possible for those customers who don't have credit cards but have built up an online balance through their own sales, e.g. through eBay. PayPal is the predominant method of payment at eBay. There are over 25,000,000 PayPal accounts. Do not overlook these as potential customers at your store. Over 42,000 websites accept PayPal and are listed in the PayPal Shops at paypal.com. Can you afford not to be in that list? PayPal accounts are available to customers in the United States and many other countries around the world. This PayPal module allows the store owner to designate any of several currencies which PayPal accepts, e.g. USD, CAD, EUR, etc. See paypal.com site for info on international currencies. For those currencies not directly accepted, this paypal module allows for a conversion to USD from the currency your store is using.