[nfbcs] Setting Up a Website to Accept Payments via PayPal

[David Andrews]

Mike:

The nfb-web or nfbnet-webmasters lists might get you answers, if this 
list doesn't come through.

Dave

At 07:03 PM 8/11/2014, you wrote:
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>There is growing interest within my affiliate to set up our affiliate
>website to accept payments via PayPal. I'll admit that I'm a bit
>old-fashioned about this sort of thing so am not terribly enthused at the
>prospect. I'm the webmaster so write my own code. My question is this:
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>Is there a narrative document somewhere that describes in detail the process
>for setting up one's website to accept PayPal, i.e., accept payments via
>credit cards, bank accounts and the like? I realize that PayPal says it
>makes things relatively simple by offering code to just plop down into one's
>own website code but, frankly, I'd like to know the requirements and process
>step-by-step ahead-of-time rather than learning by doing. I'm willing to do
>this after reading a detailed description but PayPal doesn't seem to have
>anything catering to a RTFM type like me.
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>Also, PayPal seems to have provision for separate web coding to process
>donations than it does for accepting payment for registration etc. Is this
>really necessary?
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>T I A.
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>Mike Freeman

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