PayPal

PayPal enables you to accept credit cards on a website, on eBay, by phone, or connected to an existing merchant account.

Features include:

• Accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express.
• Send and request money to or from anyone with an email address in any country or region that PayPal supports.
• Sell online.
• Accept bank transfers.
• Accept domestic and international payments.
• Secure payments with fraud detection and prevention.
• Send money by phone.
• Over 230 million users in 190 countries.
• Accept global payment methods.
• PayPal allows your international customers to pay you using their local payment methods.
• Accept 24 currencies.
• Online invoicing.
• Virtual terminal to process phone, fax, or mail payments.
• Sell on eBay.
• No setup fees.
• No gateway fees.
• No fees for multiple eBay and merchant tools.
• Credit card reader.
• Digital goods.
• Mass payments.
• Accept donations.
• Shopping carts.
• Pay suppliers and vendors.
• Connect your bank account.
• PayPal express checkout: customers select payment method and shipping address on PayPal then return to your website to finalize their purchase.
• PayPal handles and stores payment information.
• Reporting and management.
• Search detailed transaction records.
• Automatically send order confirmations and status updates.
• Receive realtime email notification as soon as a payment is made.
• Use hundreds of compatible shopping cart options or your own customised shopping cart.
• Free shopping cart if you don't already have one.
• Use HTML to link your website to PayPal-hosted checkout.
• Automate payment processing and build new applications using the PayPal API.
• Mobile Express Checkout.
• Send invoices from your phone.
• No card swiper to buy.
• No software to install.
• Add to cart button.
• Buy now button.
• Subscribe button.
• Donate button.
• Buy gift certificate button.
• Inventory management: low-inventory alerts.
• Custom payment pages: provide a seamless experience for PayPal standard checkout by customizing it with your colors and logo.
• Auto return: bring customers back to your website immediately after they pay or cancel a transaction.
• History logs: view a secure and detailed record of your PayPal transactions.
• Sales report: track your cash inflow and outflow by sales, refunds, and fees for monthly, daily, or custom periods..
• Profit-loss reporting.
• Financial summary.
• Advanced search: find a particular transaction or subset of transactions.
• Data integration: integrate PayPal data with your back-office systems.
• Authorize and capture: confirm that a payment is authorized then settle the transaction later.
• Refunds: full or partial refund for up to 60 days after you receive a payment.
• Seller protection technology.
• Chargeback protection.
• Instant payment notification.
• Payment data transfer: notification of successful transactions as they are made.
• Web services and APIs: automate payment processing and build new ecommerce applications with PayPal APIs.
• Developer support.
• Packing slip: easily create a packing slip for sold items.
• Shipping calculator: automatically include shipping amounts for PayPal shopping cart, donations, and buy now buttons.
• Sales tax calculator: automatically collect sales tax for PayPal shopping cart, donations, and buy now buttons.
• Automatic fraud-prevention: stay safe with fraud models, address verification, card verification, 128-bit SSL, and powerful encryption.
• Mass pay: make instant electronic payments to a large number of recipients at once.
• PayPal standard checkout: pass items in a shopping cart to PayPal where customers complete their payment.
• Downloadable logs: download your transaction history into various file formats such as QuickBooks.
• Monthly account statements: view or download a summary of credits and debits that affect your PayPal account balance each month.
• Scheduled downloadable log: schedule regular times to automatically download your daily transaction activity.
• Manage users: assign multiple users individual levels of access to your PayPal account.
• Sandbox: applications like website payments, IPN, and APIs in a self-contained testing environment.
• PayPal developer network: library of information and an online community of developers and designers.
• Online help and email support.