Sams Teach Yourself eBay® in 10 Minutes

Lesson 19. Accepting PayPal Payments

In this lesson, you learn how to set up PayPal payments for the items you sell on eBay.

Accepting Credit Cards—and More—with PayPal

Let’s face it: Plastic rules. Most people like to use credit cards to pay for the items they purchase. That’s true of people shopping at the local mall, at an online merchant, or on eBay. If you want to be a successful eBay seller, you have to accept credit card payments.

There was a time that if you wanted to accept credit card payment for your auction items, you had to be a big retailer, complete with merchant account and bank-supplied charge card terminal. This limited the number of sellers who could accept credit card payment, which probably cut down on potential bidders, ...