13. Customizing Payment Options with PayPal

In the previous chapter, you learned the various options you could use to integrate PayPal into your ecommerce site. Now it’s time to discover exactly how such integration will work when you have a larger site with many items to sell.

When your company does a lot of business online, you will absolutely need to have a shopping cart system for your customers. To try to duplicate this functionality using plain HTML would be enormously time-consuming. If you don’t yet have a shopping cart for your site, PayPal can provide one, at no additional charge and with little effort on your part. Otherwise, you can integrate PayPal’s payment processing into your existing shopping cart, including those provided by ...

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