I have configured Pay Pal with amember. I would also offer our clients the ability to pay with any major credit cards. I understand I need a "shopping basket" for that. Does amember provide shopping baskets? I am very unfamiliar with anything like this so whatever works the easiest would be great for me. Any suggestions?
Unless you are shipping products there really is no need to use a shopping cart program. However, some shopping cart programs may support more credit cards than PayPal. You should research all the payment providers that are supported with your version (currently version 4 does not support as many as version 3) and see it any would be a better choice than PayPal. Choosing the best payment providor can be a challenge when you take into account... Some providers only work in certain countries Some providers will not allow "adult" content Some providers do not support a trial period for products Some providers require that you establish a Merchant Account Good Luck!
Paypal already allows people to pay with a credit card. If you want to bill people locally - on your site, this becomes more complicated. David
Laura, if you want bill customer credit cards (ask credit card info right on your website), I do not recommend you to do that. Your website and software becoming then subject for PCI DSS certification and believe me, it costs not less than 1 months of hard work, and $5-10,000 for certification. Also, it may not be done on shared hosting. So lets keep it to professional billing companies. For not-recurring billing PayPal already allows to pay directly with credit card without registration. Another good choices are 2Checkout.com or ClickBank.
Took me a while to get back with your about this but I am very successfully using paypal and other credit cards as well (via paypal) Absolutely no complaints and very easy to integrate (with the help of you great guys of course!)