borsaid

Does anybody have any experience with Paypal's Website Payments Pro and using their virtual terminal?

I am trying to find a solution where we can accept credit cards at our store (brick), and on our website (click).

I am not selling any kind of physical product (yet) using my website, yet. I am trying to be able to e-mail my customers an invoice, and have them click a link to go to my website, enter in their invoice # and amount that they would want to pay. At the same time, I'd like to be able to take credit card payments when I am with the customer using their computer or my laptop on their internet connection.

From what I understand, with Paypal's Payments Pro system, I need to get a shopping cart to make this work. I was wondering if there is any other way of doing it without using the traditional shopping cart system, such as a simple invoicing system. I do all of my accounting and invoicing using Quickbooks, but the website payments system does not necessarily have to be in sync with my Quickbooks (ie, when a customer enters in an invoice # and payment amount, I would do the leg work on my end when the payment comes in by applying it to their invoice.)

So far, I have not found another merchant system that will allow me to accept payments on my website of this nature and in person at the POS. Any tips?

Thanks in advance!

Super Mod

I have no experience with PayPal's Website Payments Pro, but why aren't you looking into your standard merchant account? Are you trying to keep everything in one account (i.e. PayPal?). I think it may be best to diversify into (1) PayPal and (2) business checking account through a Merchant. This can serve you well if your PayPal account becomes frozen for some stupid reason outside your control (this happens).