Accepting Payments via PayPal from Multiple Sites?

[slaughteredlamb]

Currently I have one website and a PayPal Merchant account set in the same domain name as my website. If anyone makes a purchase through my website then they will see my PayPal address in the checkout and as that matches the website name it all looks safe.

However I'm now building a few other sites where I also need to be able to accept PayPal payments. How is it best to handle this? My fear is that it would look a bit odd to a buyer if they visited site B but then saw an e-mail address for PayPal that didn't have any links to the site they were on and may put buyers off. From my point of view I want all payments to go into one account, so is there a way to set PayPal up to give the impression of being the payment gateway for multiple sites?

[Mr Anderson]

On a simple level, you can have several email addresses tied to one Paypal account.

[net-curtains]

On a simple level, you can have several email addresses tied to one Paypal account.

ooh I didn't know that. That's handy.

[Tony]

That's true - if you click on the donations link above it goes to a DDN email which is actually my paypal account that I use for a couple of other sites.

Try it out!

[slaughteredlamb]

Ahh cool that sounds like all I need. At the risk of sounding incredibly dumb (too late), is this simply done by selecting Add or Remove E-Mail under Profile in the My Account tab?

[Mr Anderson]

Ahh cool that sounds like all I need. At the risk of sounding incredibly dumb (too late), is this simply done by selecting Add or Remove E-Mail under Profile in the My Account tab?

Pretty much, yep. I think you can have up to 5, and each one can only be linked to one PP account.

[sarahA]

Just one point to make though, if the user pays by card then your Business name set in your profile will always show up I believe, so whilst the email address will be which ever you use, the end name will still be the same. However if it's just to you personally then it's not so much of an issue (but just thought I'd point it out for anyone else who thought about it).