How to Use FoxyCart With PayPal
E-commerce is the process of buying and selling online. Companies and individuals make money online by selling products, downloads, services and/or offering paid subscriptions. FoxyCart and Paypal are two services that enable customers to make purchase through your website. FoxyCart provides features such as shopping carts and a checkout process. FoxyCart must be used with a payment gateway, such as PayPal. A payment gateway completes the financial transaction. In other words, your customers shop using FoxyCart and pay for their items using PayPal.
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Instructions
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Integrate FoxyCart into your website. Create a store using the FoxyCart Dashboard. Click "Add a New Store" under the "Actions" section. Fill in the options under the store settings configuration page. Enter your store name, store URL, store logo, store email, store subdomain, state and postal code. Click "sign-up," and your store is up and running.
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Choose a PayPal account. The available accounts are PayPal Standards, PayPal Premiere, PayPal Business, PayPal Website Payments Pro and PayPal Payflow Pro. Review each account description located on the PayPal website. Determine which account option serves your e-commerce needs.
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Open a PayPal account. Select the "Business" tab. Choose one of the accounts listed under "Products and Services" such as Website Payment Standards. Click the "Create an account" link. Click "Create New Account" and select your business location and preferred language. Continue the process of setting up a business account by filling in the requested information such as business type, email address and password.
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Set up PayPal with Foxycart. Enter your email address in the payment section of the FoxCart admin's section. The email address should be the same email you used for opening your PayPal account.
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Tips & Warnings
PayPal's Website Payment Standards include the standard, premiere and business accounts.
The instructions for using PayPal with FoxyCart are different for each PayPal account.
The main distinction between PayPal's Website Payment Standards account and the PayPal Website Payments Pro and PayPal Payflow Pro accounts is that the standard accounts redirect customers to paypal.com to complete their purchase. Transactions made with the pro accounts keep customers on your website.
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