Ans. Paypal is a well recognized independent third party payment processing company. Based in the United States, Paypal specialise in processing online credit card transactions. Paypal is one of the largest and most respected online payment processor on the Internet with millions of users.

A few years ago Paypal was taken over by Ebay.

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Ans. In a word yes! What you require is a “payment gateway” or “merchant services.” Weycrest do not provide any merchant services but there are plenty of large organisations that do.

Such organisations are Paypal, 2CO (2 Checkout) Worldpay and Authorize.Net.

For the beginner Paypal is perhaps the easiest to setup. Also many ecommerce, shopping carts such as OSCommerce have additional modules which will integrate with the above payment gateways.

But even if you do not intend to use shopping cart software its pretty easy for a beginner to integrate Paypal onto their site, by incorporating a payment button.

To sign up for a Paypal account click on the banner below:

To sign up for 2CO Merchant services Click Here

Ans. Yes you can order domains or any hosting services using a Solo and Electron card provided you select the “Paypal” option when signing. Paypal will then allow you to make secure payments using these cards.

Please note, you do not require a Paypal account to make payment by Paypal. However if you do setup  a Paypal account it will allow you make purchases without revealing your credit/debit card details to internet merchants.