Tuesday 8 March 2016

PayPal Payments Advanced Module for your PrestaShop Store

Internet usage has been soaring all time high these days, because the onset of eCommerce business activities throughout the world. This situation also acts as a catalyst for people preferring to access online purchases to visiting an offline store for buying goods of their choice. Moreover, online shopping through eCommerce Web Development, enables people to have hassle free shopping experience at the comfort of their home. In spite of the availability of such a flexible buying option online, still a few people do not evince interest in online purchases. 

The reason could be that such people are not comfortable with making use of their credit/debit cards details or sharing their credentials online, while making a purchase. So, the only solution left with eCommerce merchants is to integrate efficient PrestaShop eCommerce Addons in their eCommerce platform such as the PrestaShop PayPal Modules that can eliminate the concerns of people who hesistate to use their credit/debit cards for making payments.

PayPal Payment Advanced Module

The PayPal Payment Advanced Module is widely accepted as one of the excellent payment gateways for its authentic and fool proof payment transactions. The PayPal eCommerce Module can be integrated with your Prestashop eCommerce software to enable the payment process of customers faster and smoothly. PayPal accepts all major credit/debit cards and when a customer provides the card details, the information is directed to the PayPal Payment Gateway for processing the payments. 

As part of PayPal’s varied payment options, the PayPal Payments Advanced Module has been introduced to the advantage of both online merchants as well as customers for credit card processing service through online.  Being a cost effective solution, PayPal offers a few very immaculate benefits to both online store owners and customers.  From customer side, this module facilitates customers to stay on the merchant site during the whole process of making payment, without the need to get redirected to another page for giving the card details. 

In the past, for making payments, customers were forced to return to a PayPal checkout page in order to enter the card information.  This procedure involved hassle to customers by compelling them to sign up for accounts and in the event of losing PayPal login credentials, it became a hardship for customers and forcing them to leave merchant’s site without making a purchase. This in turn means loss of sales for online stores  as well.  

Features of PayPal Payments Advanced Module
  • Customers can stay on merchant site during the whole checkout process.
  • Security concerns of payment transactions will be taken care of by PayPal and no SSL is needed for it.
  • Only a nominal charge is levied by PayPal for their service.  
  • Enables to accept all major Credit/Debit card payments and process through PayPal Advanced payment gateway integration.
Conclusion

The PayPal Payments Advanced Module offers excellent online payment experience to customers, because of the transaction feature - iframe in the checkout process. This feature provides online merchants with the advantage of an on-site integrated with flawless checkout process and eliminates the worry about PCI compliance, because PayPal handles this with the hosted pages behind the iframe. Also, the Prestashop store merchants need not have to purchase an SSL certificate in order to install this advanced module from PayPal.