Comments on: Can My Customers Use Paypal Without An Account?

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:58:08 +0000

Brief and awesome. Thanks for the clarification man.

By: Doug vanderHoof

Doug vanderHoof — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:09:37 +0000

Thanks. This was valuable info and the the first google item when I used the search phrase “can you pay with paypal without an account”.

Cordially,
Doug

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By: Dan Himes

Dan Himes — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:43:57 +0000

If you use their “Express” checkout PayPal customers have to use PayPal to buy a downloadable item. This is (presumably) to protect the customers in the event that the download breaks. They can use their credit card if they are buying a shippable item, however.

If you implement “Payments Pro” (perhaps “Standard” also, but check) then they can use their cc for a downloadable.

By: Zviki

Zviki — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:29:35 +0000

You need to use “Website Payments Standard” or Pro for that and specifically allow that.

Nevertheless, I just got a complaint from a customer located in Jamaica, which was unable to pay without an account and this was an issue. He sent me a screenshot which was the same as the first one presented above, but without the ability to pay without an account. Needless to say, PayPal support is pretty useless.

So, keep in mind it doesn’t always work. Is it worth losing business?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:12:05 +0000

I’m pretty sure this depends on which API you use. If you use the Express Checkout API, the user must have a PayPal account and is not presented with a choice to pay without a PayPal account. I have no idea why this is the case, and I wish PayPal would make its APIs consistent in this respect.

By: Goran

Goran — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:19 +0000

Last time I tried to pay through paypal without a paypal account I couldn’t because (if I remember correctly) you could do that only if you have a US based address, or if I am wrong about this then maybe my county was not listed in the available countries list. Anyway, this is not helping people that are not able to have a paypal account (because their country is not supported by paypal) to pay through paypal, just it makes it easier for the one that can have paypal account but don’t want to bother entering all the details.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:14:36 +0000

I do both product sales and subscriptions with PayPal on my own site. I wanted to point out that as far as I know, if you use PayPal for handling subscriptions, your customers must have (and use) a PayPal account to pay.