PayPal For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) [Paperback]

Victoria Rosenborg (Author), Marsha Collier (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764583921 | ISBN-13: 978-0764583926 | Publication Date: April 1, 2005 | Edition: 1

Here's how PayPal can help your business succeed

E-mail money, save money, make money, and enhance your Web site

PayPal's a practical partner, and this handy handbook introduces you to its many identities. It can act as your banker, charge card, cashier, shipping clerk, and a whole lot more. Here's how to set up and use your account, plus tips on adding PayPal to your business Web site and even exploring its PayPal Web Services.

Discover how to
* Establish the account you need
* Use PayPal like an ATM
* Set up multi-user access
* Accept payments in multiple currencies
* Ship merchandise using PayPal
* Create a shopping cart and buttons

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Here's how PayPal can help your business succeed

E-mail money, save money, make money, and enhance your Web site

PayPal's a practical partner, and this handy handbook introduces you to its many identities. It can act as your banker, charge card, cashier, shipping clerk, and a whole lot more. Here's how to set up and use your account, plus tips on adding PayPal to your business Web site and even exploring its PayPal Web Services.

Discover how to

• Establish the account you need
• Use PayPal like an ATM
• Set up multi-user access
• Accept payments in multiple currencies
• Ship merchandise using PayPal
• Create a shopping cart and buttons

About the Author

Victoria Rosenborg is co-owner of Small Business Online, a developer of e-commerce and marketing Web sites for small businesses. She's a recognized expert on e-commerce and e-publishing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 430 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764583921
• ISBN-13: 978-0764583926
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to make Pay Pal work for you., June 8, 2010

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imagineer586 (Lakewood, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: PayPal For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) (Paperback)

The reason I bought this book to learn how to add PayPal to my Web-based business, but while reading this book, I discovered that this is a wonderfully comprehensive book on the capabilites of PayPal and what it has to offer.

If you want to go beyond making a payment on eBay by using PayPal, PayPal for Dummies, like most of the "for Dummies" books will get you started and answer basic questions. What I discovered was that I could install some payment buttons on my website for my Web-based business as well as add some donations buttons to any non-profit organization. PayPal For Dummies had all the information I needed and more to achieve various goals and the information was easy to find.

PayPal For Dummies explains how to establish a PayPal account, deposit or withdrawal money from your PayPal account, create multi-user access to your account, accept payments in international currencies, use PayPal to help shipping merchandise, and create a shopping cart with buttons for purchasing merchandise on your website or making charitable donations from your website.

Overall a good reference book for the person trying to know and understand PayPal.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Racer-X, March 17, 2006

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This review is from: PayPal For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) (Paperback)

I realise that these book reviews are supposed to serve mainly to critique the authors' abilities to impart knowledge on the given subject matter (and the case of this book that was done well) but I thought it was important to also comment on the subject matter itself.

Firstly, on the quality of the book; this book is well written, covers a lot of ground and I would recommend it to people of almost any level of technical expertise wishing to use PayPal.

However, after learning the nuances of PayPal, I have to say that I am not completely sold. The PayPal service, although offering some excellent tools for web developers and non-developers alike, has quite a concerning "Big Brother" air about it that does not instill confidence in me to trust my money with these people. Reading PayPal for Dummies prompted me to dig a little deeper into the terms and conditions of PayPal as well as seeking out other people's experiences with the service to find some disturbing feedback (try www.paypalsucks.com to start with).

Of course a company as large as PayPal is going to be the target of some flack but when we're talking about the potential loss of control over one's personal funds (large amounts in some cases), this brings a whole new level of concern.

All in all, PalPal has the potential to be a great service but, at the moment, has a way to go before it wins my trust.

10 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More to PayPal than meets the eye, May 27, 2005

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Joe (Paso Robles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PayPal For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) (Paperback)

PayPal is much more than a payment system for eBay. This is a wonderfully comprehensive book on the capabilites of PayPal. After reading this book I am going to use PayPal to accept credit card payments for my Web-based business.