Learning More all the time:

I wasn't excited about going with PP from the start based upon things i've heard about them. The devil's i the details so to speak. But for what i'm doing it's the only viable option as there is no upfront cost. Some things i found out today to pass on to others:

- PP likes to promote itself as a site that does NOT require a customer to create a PP account. which is one of the reason's i went with them in the first place. Well, that's a half truth. The real truth is that a customer won't have to sign up for an account the first 2 times they purchase. However, the 3rd time they will be forced to create an account. May or may not be a hastle for some but if you have repeat customers, i'd hate to have to sign up for a pp account if i didn't want to.

- If your customers don't have a pp account, the txn purchase will be limited to < $2000 or they must open a pp account.

- Although you can have 8 emails with a single business account, you really can't use a single business account for more than one website. The reason being that the brilliant folks at pp only give you a single ipn for all the 8 emails. That means 8 different sites would always report via ipn to the same single site. which is impractical. So if you want to open 4 small websites that don't generate a whole lot of money, you're forced to go down to the bank and open 4 separate business accounts and then create for separate PP accounts. I've got so many user/password combinations it's hard to keep track of all this stuff anymore.

fyi, something tells me they might used to have allowed multiple ipns per account but have discontinued the practice. the lady helping me had a slip of the tongue that led me to believe this. and she said she was going to look into if they could get them for me somehow.

just thought i'd pass this along.