PayPal: open "Don't have a PayPal account" automatically

[feuert]

Hi,



when my customers pay with E-Junkie and PayPal, they get two options:

"Pay with my PayPal account"

or

"Don't have a PayPal account".



The first option is selected by default.



Is it possible to customize an E-Junkie buy now link in such a way that the second option ("Don't have a paypal account") pops up automatically when the user gets to the page?



And if anyone knows, does PayPal itself support this? (irregardless of whether or not an E-Junkie link can accomplish this).



Thanks!

[E-junkie_Monster]

Sorry, there's no way to set that from this end. I don't believe PayPal supports such a setting.

[feuert]

I found some more information:

You can indeed set the landing page (credit card, or paypal login) by using the LANDINGPAGE parameter [1]. This only works when using Express Checkout, not with Payments Standard [2].



So there's no way to set this parameter using E-Junkie, and I would have to integrate with PayPal myself to get that option. Is that correct?



[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/13814783/430935



[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12120616/paypal-express-checkout-landingpage-billing-issue

[E-junkie_Guru]

PayPal's checkout site normally handles that automatically pretty well. They will normally show the "Don't have a PayPal account?" section to all buyers by default. However, if PayPal's site detects a cookie in the buyer's browser from a previous PayPal account login, then they may assume the buyer already has a PayPal account, so they would show the "Pay with my PayPal account" section in that case.



If you are testing your own cart with a PayPal checkout, you may also encounter the latter behavior since presumably you would have logged into your own PayPal account recently; in this case, you should be able to see PayPal's card-based checkout option by clearing your browser cookies before you test your cart, or by at least deleting cookies for "paypal.com", or by testing with a different browser program that you've never used to log into PayPal.