[thelist] To have an SSL Certificate or Not?

Matthew Pulis mpulis at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 04:15:24 CST 2009


Barney,

I was thinking also to do a flash video to help the clients - you know those
where you record your browser and then i add some comments and explain
further at the page below.

This should help the clients figure out their way better i guess

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Barney Carroll <barney.carroll at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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