Businesses of any size can benefit from the reliable and trusted PayPal brand. Using PayPal for osCommerce transactions, you use one of the easier modules to work with. In fact, you can have a more or less working PayPal facility up and running in no time at all. The hard work comes from ironing out the wrinkles along the way and ensuring the smoothest operation of your payments in the future.
If you are happy with the most basic setup, then all you need to do is create your own PayPal account, and enable the PayPal module in osCommerce using the admin tool. Then, when customers attempt to purchase goods, they will have the option to pay with PayPal and be redirected to the PayPal site, where they can make the transaction.
There are a couple of problems to doing things this way! The main thing is that customers making payment might simply close their browser, without continuing back to the store. In this case, the order is simply not recorded in the database. This...