I Have Paypal, I Have Zencart...

[TheOracle]

In the mean time, here are three great steps mentionned from Merlin on this topic:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...849#post395849

[Kim]

The mission: How to enable our website to stay away from paypal landing pages? That is, once a customer clicks the custom buy button on our webpage, how to enable it so the customer is NOT directed to a paypal landing page, which completes their transaction?

You CAN NOT do it at this time.

[freudling]

Finally, someone with a solid answer. Kobra, you are a bit confusing.

"Merchant account from the bank of my choice?" Most banks don't offer that service at all. Third parties do. You can't just walk into a bank and ask for a merchant account to accept credit card payments. They don't do that.

Then you speak of Paypal API codes. How? How specifically can I use their API codes to layer my website over theirs?

Kim, I guess it can't be done, unless we reverse engineer some of Paypal's code. I know that it can be done but I am not sure about infringing on any contracts.

[kobra]

Sorry that you are confused???
But from your posts you sounded to be web page savy as you have "your own" pages. Did you review my post #10 here? Those are your options...

"Merchant account from the bank of my choice?" Most banks don't offer that service at all. Third parties do. You can't just walk into a bank and ask for a merchant account to accept credit card payments. They don't do that.

I beg to differ - before the web this is exactly what banks provided to brick & mortar establishments a "Merchant Account"

For the web there are 3 pieces required - a site that takes payments - a Gateway processor for online processing - Lastly a merchant account(bank account) where the funds are transfered.

Is that clearer?

Then you speak of Paypal API codes. How? How specifically can I use their API codes to layer my website over theirs?

This is on their site and an Application Program Interface is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks. A programmer puts the blocks together.

So you use it(write programming code) to include their functions in your pages.