PayPal Express Checkout is now a supported payment method for the Payment Creator iPart. You can collect payments via PayPal for customers checking out from the shopping cart and for donors entering gifts on standalone fundraising pages. Offering PayPal can enhance your sales and campaign success by giving your site visitors the reassurance of a known and secure payment method.
As part of this payment expansion, Payment Creator now visually breaks out credit card payment from other payment methods, such as Bill Me (for purchase orders). A configuration option lets you set whether to require your shoppers to enter a purchase order number when they use Bill Me.
PayPal Express Checkout lets customers with valid PayPal accounts complete payment via its website. Because the credit card details never transfer to iMIS, PayPal Express Checkout reduces your organization's liability for storing cardholder information.
Tip: The documentation for Credit Card Authorization is now called Payment Authorization, where you can find out how to set up iMIS to offer Pay with PayPal.
■ Purchases, Registrations, Renewals, Donations – In addition to product purchases, PayPal Express is a supported payment method when your members register for events and pay for their renewals (their invoices for both cash and accrual dues). PayPal is also an option for members who want to make an immediate donation, apart from any pending purchases in their cart.
■ Link to PayPal information –What is PayPal? links to a PayPal-maintained page that explains this third-party payment system. This information will help non-PayPal customers feel confident enough to select the service.
■ PayPal hidden for On Behalf Of – Payment Creator hides the Pay with PayPal option when the signed-in user is working On Behalf Of, to prevent confusion and misuse of the payment method.
■ PayPal Reconciliation Report – A Crystal report lists all PayPal Express Checkout transactions for a selected date range, to help you reconcile iMIS records with reports provided by PayPal. The report lists these transactions by Credit Card Authorization Account Code and then by Date entered, and it includes the iMIS Gateway Reference field, which contains the Transaction ID that PayPal assigned to each transaction.