Websitery: Paypal

[hellkat]

So I got this website from a mate.
Which you can buy and sell stuff from.
And we have changed over the domain names in Godaddy and 123Reg, and the hosting lady is doing something, which she has to confirm to me at some point soon.

So ... when the customers buy something, how do I make sure the money goes into MY paypal address and not hers?

She says she has removed the generic website sales email address but how do I point it at my own personal paypal account without having to show the customers what my paypal address is called?

I am using Zencart.

Note to the scornful:
(all software/application choices described herein are her choices not mine, I am not smart enough yet to know how to change those sort of things, I am just using the stuff that she was using till I get the hang of things)
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[Marmalade]

You need to access the site admin which you should be given a link to and a password. All the stuff will be in there.

www.yoursite.co.uk/shop/admin/index.php

Or something like that.
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[Hetzer]

[hellkat]

[Spudly]

Yeah, that's the back end of the CMS/Cart.

Go into that and find the "Payment Options" section.
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[Marmalade]

If you have control of the email now as it would seem you add that email address to your paypal account or create a paypal account with that email and you don't need to make changes to the site.
The payments go to your paypal account. Job done.
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[hellkat]

How can I tell if I have control of that email account?
I have :

1. Registered on godaddy and ticked some boxes but I have no idea why I had to do that.

2. Transferred the domain name from her to me on 123-Reg (at least I kind of knew what I was doing there).

3. Received an email from a girl who runs "the hosting company" telling me that its all gone thru (whatever it all is).

But I am not sure where to look for emails.

So ... I could open a brand new paypal account JUST in the new email of sales@jensite.co.uk ?

Surely that is a lot of extra faffing with all that account verification hoo-ha, but is it worthwhile to keep a private paypal account separate from a business one?
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[Jayy]

You 100% do NOT want to have credit card payments turned on as a payment method. You need to be fully PCI compliant to even begin start processing customers credit card information on your own site.

PayPal is the payment gateway and should be the only gateway enabled, as it processes credit/debit/paypal payments all in one solution.

[Jayy]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Hmmm, you're right on that one...

*puts credit cards in the "Too hard for now" tray*
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[oldpink]

HK my sites need to be PCI compliment and its a royal PITA

if you really want to use CC's you need a gateway like Secure Trading and use there payment module to send CC payments via there servers to authenticate payments
even then there are still a lot of hoops you need to jump through and software to integrate
a lot of which requires shell access to install it correctly and changes made to a load of files

Its taken we a week to get a working CC system to test having to go back and forth with my host to get Java version .xyz installed
and having to have certain port access opened to allow transactions
and finally configuring the gateway interface to show the info I want / need
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[hellkat]

OK well I'm not up to jumping thru any more hoops than I have to, cos right now its all I can do to figure out how to get the money to go into my Paypal

Its possible I may have to do that at some point, though, so I have tagged in my Wiki/Excel notes that I have to look into the PCI thing.

I'm sure this will get easier, once I know WT-actual-F I am doing

I'll be happier once I have the hang of getting round in the guts of the thing, cos I am not as impressed with the content as I thought I would be and might have to go searching for better content, so as to get motivated to do better marketing/blog/social network blurb.

But this will do : keeps me amused, I suppose.
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[oldpink]

if you can access the Admin control panel

you need to change the paypal settings so it pays to the correct account

I use OS Commerce byt most carts have a general layout

you need to find the paypal payment module and edit the info
in OSC I go to modules>payment> and I see a list of available payment options
I click paypal and then the edit button that comes up
there I can enter my PP details in fields and save, thats it job done

[hellkat]

Yes I can get in on the admin page.

But for some reason I am having trouble getting Paypal to accept the sales@jensite.co.uk email address (it says you can have up to 7) ... so two days later I still can't work out how to get the money to go to me. Paypal allegedly keep sending me emails to confirm but there is nowhere to click to confirm the new email address, only a "if you did not send this email, or if you wish to contact our customer services, click here" ... and I am very twitchy about clicking Paypal emails at the best of times.

Grrrr, can't move on until the money is sorted.
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[Marmalade]

From the login you need to select 'modules' then 'payment'

Then you need to select 'PayPal Express Checkout' and this will give you a box with instructions on setting up paypal. it uses an api system for which you need to log into your paypal account to get the following

API Signature -- Username
Looks like an email address

API Signature -- Password
randomness

API Signature -- Signature Code
more randomness

Enter these and it all works. just like that.
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