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Can I Accept Credit Cards if I have PayPal?

September 27, 2019 / Dave Taylor / Amazon, eBay, and Online Shopping Help, PayPal Help / No Comments

I know that PayPal has a point of sale device for swiping credit cards but if I don’t have one of those, can I still accept credit cards for sales of my pottery? I’d like to use my iPhone.

As far as I can tell, there’s no way to accept credit cards through the Web interface to PayPal. If you have a smartphone and are willing to download and install an app, however, you can indeed enter and process credit card transactions!

The first challenge is to figure out which of the many PayPal apps you need to get from the App Store, whether you’re using an iPhone or an Android device. Look for “PayPal Here” [iPhone version] [Android version] because, surprisingly, the PayPal Business app doesn’t offer this capability.

Download it, install it, log in to your PayPal account and you should be faced with a very minimalist interface, a point of sale device where you don’t want to do anything but enter and run a credit card. Here’s the first screen:

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - step 1

Basically, you’ll want to enter item names & prices and when you’re done, tap “Charge” to get to the payment area. Let’s go through, step by step. I’ll specify “Service” for the item name, then tap in a price: $250.00:

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - ready to charge

The description is going to show up on the receipt, but for now the total price is correct, so I’m going to tap on the blue “Charge” button on the top to proceed.

If I had a physical card reader, this is when I could use it. Because I don’t, however, here are the options presented:

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - payment type

You can use the other payment methods, but let’s stick to that credit card. I mean, hey, credit cards. Aren’t they glorious? 🙂

Tap on “Enter Card Number” to proceed and it’s again a super utilitarian interface you’ll see:

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - enter credit card number

The “CSC” is the verification on the back of the card, and the MM/YY is the expiration date (or “expiry” as they call it in the banking world).

With that data entered (PayPal automatically hides the card number as you go):

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - card number entered

It does some basic number verification (turns out there’s a checksum embedded in a card number to ensure it’s not just a random sequence of digits), identifies what kind of card has been entered – a VISA card – and once I finish entering the ZIPCODE, I’m ready to proceed.

This is where it’s a bit confusing. You want to tap on the word “Charge” on the top right. Why doesn’t it have a blue button? Why isn’t it front and center? No idea. But that one tap does the work and the card will be charged…

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card - payment successful

Success! And if you want to ensure it worked, pop onto your PayPal account and you should see a line like this in your transaction history:

paypal here point of sale - enter credit card -  transaction history

Mission accomplished. And now you know how to do it! Good luck with that pottery sale too.

About the Author: Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since the early days of the Internet. Author of over 20 technical books, he runs the popular AskDaveTaylor.com tech help site. You can also find his gadget reviews on YouTube and chat with him on Twitter as @DaveTaylor.

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