[thelist] To have an SSL Certificate or Not?

Barney Carroll barney.carroll at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 03:59:44 CST 2009


For my piece, I'm familiar with the stigma, but I also know that PayPal have
made it much easier on the user recently. Matthew, you might want to write a
little aside on 'how easy it is to use PayPal these days' on the page before
payment if this concerns you?

Regards,
Barney Carroll

barney.carroll at gmail.com
07594 506 381


2009/12/1 Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz>

>
> > Your customers no longer need to register with PayPal to buy things from
> > (or donate to) your website.
> >
> > For a few years now, you can use either the simple PayPal "buy now" (we
> > use "Donate now" on evolt.org) buttons, or their more advanced API's and
> > your customers do need to have, and do not need to create, a PayPal
> > account to complete the sale, and so they also don't have to do the
> > "associate the credit card" or "link the checking account" steps that
> > used to put people off so badly.  Buyers can just do regular
> > "drive-by-payments" with their credit cards just like on any other
> > shopping cart or merchant account.
> >
> >
> David, this is great and yeah I think this illustrates the general
> problem, perception or not.  Unless you as a developer/designer do
> regular work with systems like this you may not be in the know. I've had
> my PayPal account for maybe 4 years, not sure, so I guess then I qualify
> as old-timer and  have the registration process ingrained in memory.
> Then along came the business account and 2 deposits yadda yadda.
>
> It's not like we routinely zap our historic accounts then test out the
> new process as we're sitting alongside a client.
>
> Just a bit of morph memory time - I celebrated the day I got my paypal
> account linked to ebay business.  The walls crashed when I moved,
> physical addresses.  eBay and the verification process was true horror -
> an hour in a chat session got that fixed - for a week only. This made
> PayPal look like a sweetheart by comparison.
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