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  • 05-09-2013 10:58pm
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    thecelt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭


    If I set up an online store using wordpress and woocommerce,
    am I correct that once I am using paypal as merchant, that I do not need SSL?


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    According to woocommerce, no as you're forwarding the customer to the paypay website to make the payment.

    http://docs.woothemes.com/document/paypal-standard/

    There are much nicer/easier ways of accepting payments than PayPal though.


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    thecelt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭thecelt


    Can i ask what else you would reccommend?
    I am trying to avoid those that have a monthly charge


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    I'd have a look at Stripe. It's quick and easy to sign up for, there's no monthly fee, transaction charges are quite reasonable and WooCommerce have a Stripe payment plugin.

    Are you selling (planning to sell) real products or digital products? How many different products do you think your e-commerce site will have? Will you be charging for shipping? Will you be taking orders from overseas?


    Disclosure: I have NO connection to Stripe.


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    thecelt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭thecelt


    Thanks, hadnt know about stripe, they a new company or ?
    Hoping to just sell one dvd on a festival site and maybe take donations.
    Would I need to use ssl if I used stripe ?
    Am debating the postage thing, maybe just have an inclusive price


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    All of the credit card transaction take place on the Stripe servers so similar requirements to PayPal. I guess with a DVD, you don't have to worry that much about postage costs, either an all-in price or a fixed P & P rate.

    Stripe are one of the darlings of the tech world at the moment, only just launched in Ireland but in the US/UK for a while.


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    thecelt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭thecelt


    I presume its easy to pull money back into a bank account from it too?
    Do u have any example of a site using it.
    Have a small possibily of a site selling some clothing,
    is it easy to work in a p&p rate?


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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    There's thousand of sites using Stripe now, payments are remitted to your bank after 7 days if I remember correctly.

    Here's several hundred sites using Stripe -> https://stripe.com/gallery

    You should look after the P & P within your e-commerce solution, payment processors really only want a final figure from you. WooCommerce would take care of a small clothing line but you will need to consider how to handle returns etc.


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    thecelt
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭thecelt


    never did think of that,
    how wud you need to allow for returns or wud that be a problem to be sorted via email and the seller?


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