5.5 Payment Options

The current CD Shopping Cart function provides for Credit Card payment as the default payment option. There are many other possible options like cheque payment through mail and established secured online payment services like PayPal®. You are free to request for whatever payment options you deem fit.

You can reflect these options in one of the catalog pages itself, in the shopping cart setup by adding the information in the footer of the purchase order or add some additional fields for the customer to fill up.

5.5.1 Scenario Five – Using the PayPal® Payment Option

Lets assume you decided to include PayPal® as one of your desired payment options for your customers. You can begin by going to the Shopping Cart Setup – Customer, set the Credit Card Number and Expiration Date fields as optional, and add the PayPal® Account field to the list (Fig 5.5.1). The PayPal® Account could be an optional field too. If your customer is a PayPal® member, he can enter his PayPal® Account, which would be captured in the Purchase Order, and faxed or emailed to you. Once you received the Purchase Order, you can then go through the PayPal® Request Money function to request for payment.

Fig 5.5.1 Shopping Cart Setup – Customer Information with PayPal Field

Alternatively, if your customer is not an existing PayPal® member, you could still request for payment through the PayPal® Request Money function. All you need is your customer’s email address. This could be requested as a field in the Shopping Cart Customer Setup. Using the Request Money function, PayPal® will send an email to your customer requesting for payment on your behalf. If your customer wants to pay you through PayPal®, he then needs to register as a PayPal® member and proceed with the payment.