Adding PayPal To Existing Sites

Businesses that don’t sell their products online are rare.  Some may do it for a special reason – misguided by ideas about exclusivity and prestige, perhaps – but others are just way behind the times.  Embracing PayPal is a way of catching up.

Granted, a lot of people are still upset with eBay, and this solution would have them working with the same corporation.  Money eventually needs to be made, however, regardless of whatever arguments are taking place.  And at least this will allow any auction boycotts to continue.

So, since just about everyone’s familiar with PayPal, its advantages, and its drawbacks, on to the matter of using it on a website.

A blurb suggests on Microsoft’s Small Business Blog suggests, "Simply sign up for a PayPal account, choose Website Payments Standard, create your chosen button, copy the html code that PayPal creates for you and drop it onto your Office Live Small Business Web page using the ‘Module’ then ‘html’ feature."

Further instructions and a couple of examples are available through the link for anyone who’s interested.