Paypal - Step Two - Update your Paypal account

Next we need to update your Paypal account so that it can communicate with your Mal's cart and send Payment Notifications back to the cart. This step is needed in order for your Order Notifications to be sent out, and in order for your Inventory Control and Order Tracking functions within your ShoppePro catalog to work.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: This guide assumes that you have the proper type of Paypal account - Business account with Website Payments Standard.

( If you only have a personal Paypal account, you must convert it to a Business Account and activate Website Payments Standard. Click here to upgrade your Paypal account. - there are no additional fees involved for a Business Website Payments Standard account. A Business account is required in order for your ShoppePro catalog to track inventory, and is required in order to send your order information back to your Order Tracking page in your ShoppePro store administration.

1. Log into your Paypal account and under the My Account tab, click on "Profile".

2. Under the Selling Preferences column, click on "Website Payment Preferences"

3. Under the Auto Return for Website Payments section, tick the box to turn ON Auto Return
4. Just underneath that, enter the URL to your Thank You page you created in the previous guide Paypal - Step One - Create a Thank You Page.

5. Scroll down to the Paypal Account Optional section. IF you want your customers to have the option to checkout WITHOUT having a paypal account, tick the ON button. (When PayPal Account Optional is turned on, your customers who are new to PayPal will no longer be required to create a PayPal account to complete a purchase—they will go through an alternate checkout, and will have the option to sign up afterward.)

6. Click "Save" at the bottom of this page.

The next step involving blocking e-check payments is Optional, but I usually recommend you do this for this reason: When a customer pays with an e-check, the payment is marked "Pending" and payment is not actually completed until several days later when the e-check clears. During the time when the e-check is pending, you will NOT receive an Order Notification from the cart, and the Inventory level will not deplete until the Payment is completed once the e-check clears several days later. Since inventory levels do not deplete until the payment is completed, any one-of-a-kind or limited inventory items would still be marked "In Stock", so it would be possible that during the time the e-check is pending, someone else could purchase that item. For this reason, I recommend blocking any e-check payments. This means that if a customer uses their Paypal account to pay, they must have a credit card number on file in their Paypal account in the event that they do not have a sufficient Paypal balance to cover the payment.

To block e-checks, follow these steps:

1. On the Profile Summary page, click on "Payment Receiving Preferences"

2. On the Payment Receiving Preferences Page, check the box for "Block the following payments: Pay with eCheck for website payments....."

3. Save this page.

Finally, follow the instructions on the next guide Paypal - Step Three - Mals Paypal Setup.

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