The paypal website says with a business account, we can accept credit card payments, and our customers do not even need to have a paypal account. Anyone figured out how to set this up?

I tried it but the CHECKOUT page actually asks my customer to create a paypal account when they pay me.

So, it's not "your customers do not even need to have a paypal account".

It's rather, "if your customers do not yet have a paypal account, we'll make them open up one just before they pay you".

The only trouble I have with this is you cannot reuse credit card numbers. Paypal remembers the actual credit card number, and doesn't allow it to be used with any other paypal accounts. Say you're the customer. You go to an online shop to buy something. At the bottom of the form, it says create a paypal password, and enter your email address. So you just insert something random in there, just to get the transaction through.

Three months later, you're buying something else at another website. When you tried the same thing, paypal pops up a page saying

You cannot use an e-mail address or card number that belongs to an existing PayPal account. If you have a PayPal account, please log in. If you don't, please change the e-mail address or card number and try again.

Most websites that accept credit cards, asks for name, card number, expiry date, cvv. Nothing else about creating accounts, remembering the login details, blocking the credit card from being used on more than one account.

Oh, but they do. Now. Paypal is the most attractive as there's no setup/monthly cost. I'm considering the others. The shop isn't on yet.

They charge that to your credit card. Look at the statement. There'a 4 digit code. Log in to paypal, verify your credit card by keying in this code. This money appears in your paypal account. Sometimes it takes a few days.

They do this to verify that you're the actual owner of the credit card you're using on paypal. If your credit card is unverified, there's a limit on how much money you can use. This limits their losses if it's a stolen card.

It should be just USD1.95 one time. Did you do the verification 3 times?

This post has been edited by dkk: Jan 16 2010, 02:10 PM

Is TS asking about receiving money and sending money? If you link a debit card, does that mean when people pay you, the money appears in your debit card account?