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Originally Posted by Anna Conlan  If anyone can tell me what the benefits are of the shopping cart, that would be helpful. I can't actually see any, but there must be some because not everyone uses Paypal... |
I for one refuse to sign up for Paypal. I had signed up a family relative a good number of years for some minor transactions. After I read all the bad things associated with paypal and not needing the account anymore, I decided to cancel the account. It was extremely hard, had to go through a bunch of hoops. After spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to close it, I ended not being able to close the account, and so I resorted to removing the stored credit card information. For a number of years afterward (and maybe still to this date), I still get a yearly email from paypal to update the status of the account.
So, that experience left me pretty dismayed with paypal, there's no way I'm willing to open an account of my own.
So, I don't buy from people whose only option is paypal. I had to send a check to someone on this forum whose coaching I used because they only had paypal, and if Erin Pavlina required me to have paypal, I'd never have gotten a reading from her.
Now I'm assuming you're talking about requiring payment from users through paypal. If you're using the merchant version of paypal where the user doesn't have to sign up for paypal, then forget what I said. I'd still use it as long as I myself don't have to sign up for a paypal account.