S-OT: PayPal fP Integration (was Re: FW: The FP Room: Meeting withKen and Laura Brody)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services done said:
> > > How's PayPal integration strike you? :) That's on my plate right now.
> > >
> > > mark->
> >
> >       Paypal acceptance sounds cool, but I don't have any customers in the
> > on-line retail business.  Most of my customers are in the manufacturing,
> > trucking and insurance areas.
> 
> I've heard that argument a few times in the last week.  There are those
> that already have merchant accounts, or are in different business venues
> that don't need such integration.  Can't do anything about the latter, but
> on huge up-side is that your web server that would be online need not be
> connected directly to your credit card terminals or modems for processing.
> That helps even those with merchant accounts, as they don't have to worry
> about that security phase of integration.

Several of the things on Laura's website can be downloaded after paying for
them, but it's currently a "set up a username, and we'll manually add you to
the .htaccess file after we get payment confirmation" type of thing.  We've
set up things via ClickBank to allow immediate download of certain products,
but a full PayPal integration could make things a lot easier.

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