PayPal
What is PayPal?
PayPal is the fast, secure way to send and receive money without sharing financial information.
What are the benefits for merchants?
- Offer your customers a variety of payment options
- Safeguard your business from fraud and chargebacks
- Manage your PayPal account easily
- Trade globally and increase your sales.
What are the benefits for buyers?
- Ability to buy without sharing financial data with the merchant
- Easy and quick checkout flow
- Confidence that a PayPal merchant is a safe merchant
- Ability to use PayPal with thousands of large and small online stores across the globe
Set Up a PayPal Account
Signing up for a PayPal account is easy and takes only a few minutes. Go to www.paypal.com.au and click on 'sign up'.
Adding PayPal to your Ashop Account
Ashop has integrated PayPal's Express Checkout, which allows customers to speed through checkout in a few simple steps. You'll help reduce checkout abandonment - one of the major challenges faced by online businesses – and increase sales.
Ashop is a PayPal Partner, so accepting PayPal is easy – there's no programming required and Ashop's solution adheres to PayPal's Best Practices.
Intructions on setting up your PayPal integration are provided in your admin panel when selecting the PayPal payment method.
PayPal Express Checkout
How does it work for merchants?
Merchants can use PayPal to complement their existing payment infrastructure or as a complete stand-alone solution. If you already accept online payments, you can add PayPal Express Checkout as an additional option while retaining your existing processor relationship. With either PayPal option, you gain access to new buyers and a proven, safe online payment provider.
Increase sales and conversion
PayPal Express Checkout saves your customers time, turns shoppers into buyers and increases profit for your business by getting visitors to purchase as quickly as possible.
Access new sources of customer funds
PayPal provides additional funding sources not available elsewhere, including customers PayPal balance and instant bank transfers.
Buyers prefer PayPal
A recent independent study has shown that over a third of online users prefer PayPal as their online payment method, so by adding the PayPal mark to your checkout page you stand to increase your sales conversion.
Security
PayPal maintains a very low loss rate due to fraud – 0.41%, less than one half of one percent.
No account required
While many buyers prefer to use PayPal, customers do not need to have a PayPal account to pay you.
Reach new customers
Reach over 145 million PayPal users worldwide.
Retain control
Customers are taken to PayPal to approve the use of PayPal to pay and then returned to your site to complete their purchases. PayPal Express Checkout enables tight integration with your website and order management process.
Setup a PayPal Account
https://www.paypal.com/
