I have a client who wants to start accepting payments on her web site via credit cards. PayPal seems a good choice (we’ve used it before for other people, and for ourselves). She is a life coach, and so her services are not one-button-fits-all; one client’s bill may be $500, another’s may be $1000, for example.
How can I set up a web-based PayPal checkout for these sorts of varying transactions? Basically, she wants to give people an invoice, and say, “you can pay me by check, or just go to my web site and pay by credit card.”
Now, I’ve used PayPal e-mail invoicing before, but many customers are spooked by any e-mail coming from PayPal (since there’s so much fraud and spoofing going on). And I’ve used buttons for fixed-price items. But can I send someone to PayPal from a web site and give them a blank $ box to fill in? The “Donation” feature seems to work the way I want in this case, but this isn’t a donation, and I don’t want the words “donate/donation” showing up during the transaction. Any other options?
