e-Commerce using woocommerce integration with master card or paypal

What makes an e-commerce platform?

While you can sell items through some integrations online with payment processing services, the ability to take a credit card and provide a transaction doesn’t mean that the solution is an e-commerce solution. E-commerce solutions have the following key features:

·       Product pages that provide multiple views and levels of product specifications, along with dynamic pricing capabilities and quantity adjustments.

·       Shopping cart — a page or object that contains all of the items added during the shopping session. Users can update quantities or delete items.

·       Checkout page — a conversion point where users can provide payment information and submit an order for fulfillment.

·       Account pages — the ability for a customer to set up an account, view orders, and manage pertinent contact, delivery and payment information.

·       Payment integration — the ability to accept and process credit card data, or integrate with a system like PayPal, Amazon Payments or Stripe that provides that service.

The WooCommerce eCommerce plugin for WordPress is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to build an online store with minimal effort and expense. The plugin makes setting up and managing an online store with WordPress much less daunting than you might imagine, and includes many great features to make your life easier.

PayPal Advanced

The PayPal Advanced extension adds a seamless integration with this payment gateway to your website, allowing your customers to enter their payment details right on your site, without leaving our store. 

This creates a much more professional impression for your online store as opposed to sending them offsite to enter their details. Customers don’t need a PayPal account to make a payment via this option.

You will need a PayPal Advanced Payments account and an SSL certificate to make the most of the features of this extension, but it will simplify PCI compliance, and allow your visitors to stay on site during the check out. 

Setting up the extension is pretty straightforward and can be done using the familiar WordPress and WooCommerce user interface.

Thankfully, WooCommerce also supports many other payment gateways, which means your eCommerce store can make use of the other options already out there. Also, while WooCommerce does support PayPal standard payments out of the box, this does involve sending the customer to the PayPal website to enter their payment details.