I am Confused. Please Help me with Terminology

[zcnb]

Thank you again. One more clarification (and another question, hopefully the last):

Using the Website Payments Standard or Express Checkout options will allow you to accept payments via PayPal using funds already-on-account with PayPal or via a credit card tied to a PayPal member's account.

PayPal's comparison chart states that customers need not have a PayPal account:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...ile-comparison

How does that align with the "credit card tied to a PayPal member's account" above?

And my last question:

Zen Cart already has a PayPal module. OTOH, PayPal account setup offers its own integration with my web site (if I use Payments Standard). It's like choosing to dig a tunnel from one side or the opposite side... Which way is the recommended, in your experience?

Thanks,
Daniel

[DrByte]

PayPal's comparison chart states that customers need not have a PayPal account:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...ile-comparison

How does that align with the "credit card tied to a PayPal member's account" above?

When using Website Payments Standard, a PayPal account is not needed. Credit Card details will be requested from those electing to pay without a PayPal account.

Zen Cart already has a PayPal module. OTOH, PayPal account setup offers its own integration with my web site (if I use Payments Standard). It's like choosing to dig a tunnel from one side or the opposite side... Which way is the recommended, in your experience?

Zen Cart works with the built-in PayPal modules. If you'd like to build your own, feel free.
Zen Cart is not designed to work with PayPal's "buy now" buttons ... those are designed for PayPal's shopping cart, not a more advanced system like Zen Cart.

[zcnb]

Belated thanks for your guidance. I used the following URL to follow the steps of setting up the PayPal Website Payments Standard:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/PayPal

It turns out that despite being that Wiki invaluable in its excellence, I did have to go back and forth between Zen Cart Admin and the PayPal web site.

For example, the URLs described in steps 9 and 12, should be fetched first from the Zen Cart admin. I didn't know that initially and so I had to repeat the process on the PayPal site, to replace https://www.myz_domain.com with https://secure.myz_domain.com.

All is well now and, to clarify, I never intended to use PayPal's "buy now" buttons. I actually wanted to use Zen Cart's own integration. However, the instructions on PayPal's web site are so confusing... I had to ask here. I even called PayPal's tech "support" but they were clueless regarding Zen Cart and all they could tell me was "use the buttons" (which, of course, I didn't want). So I ended up going against their advice and using Zen Cart's Wiki (and your guidance) instead.

Thank you again!
Daniel