I like Paypal as a payment system but reckon it's seriously flawed (in their favour of course) for payment receipt. I sell quite a bit of stuff on ebay and this week received cleared payment for some new bike parts so posted them off straight away as always. Goods were signed for this morning but I've received an email message from Paypal saying that the payment has been reversed by the buyer's bank, leaving me with a negative Paypal balance 👿 .
Whilst you're here, another little tip - be upfront with delivery costs, preferably with a link on your site to precise costings, or if you need to calculate cost for each purchase, then do that calculation in the basket - don't make people register or log in to see delivery costs.
Yes, yes, oh GOD yes! If I can't find out how much it's going to cost in postage before I register, I'm not bothering.
But Paypal is fine as long as you have the option of not needing a paypal account to pay. Which it sounds like you have covered.
Nothing wrong with PayPal itself. Plenty of big companies using it and it's one of the most secure out there. But I'd suggest getting someone to integrate it into your cart.
Generally, with the smaller eCommerce sites do, is send the customer off to PayPal (or whatever payment solution they're using), where they make payment securely, and any relevant order info is sent back to your site.
There are simpler ways of doing it, if you want to be really primitive about it, but I do think your idea of the way it will work would put me off. I wouldn't want to go through all that hassle. Unless it was a hard to come by product that I was prepared to labour over.
