[ic] RE: PayPal working with IC?

Jason Kohles interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 16:01:16 2002


On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:49, Jim Balcom wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2002, Jason Kohles wrote:
> 
> JK>>A PayPal module has not been created simply because the structure of
> JK>>PayPal is difficult to integrate with Interchange.  Major design changes
> JK>>will need to be made in the way that Interchange handles payment
> JK>>processing in order to deal with the PayPal requirement that a customer
> JK>>leave the site to go to PayPal, and then may or may not return.
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I find that to be highly objectionable. I do have
> some customers that will submit an order and then go back and place another
> order of stuff that they forgot on the first order.
> 
> I am afraid that if they had to go to PayPal's site that they might find a
> different source for the items that they forgot.
> 
They do get a button after the payment is complete that will take them
back to your site, which they would likely use if they forgot something.

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