We are pleased to announce to our clients that xm v2.3 now integrates with the PayPal.com Express Checkout API. With the integration of PayPal Express Checkout, you can choose to offer PayPal as a payment method in your job board.

Overview of the process

1. After selecting products to purchase, your customer chooses to pay with PayPal. Customers also have the option of using your existing checkout for credit card payments.
2. Your customer is transferred to PayPal. You can customize aspects of the PayPal Payment pages, such as the header and background color, to make these pages more like your custom checkout pages.
3. Your customer logs in to their account and confirms their shipping address and billing information that PayPal has stored. Your customer clicks Continue to use PayPal to pay for their purchase. Note: Merchants can also enable the PayPal Account Optional feature which allows buyers to checkout at PayPal without a PayPal account using a credit card.
4. Your customer is transferred back to your website to review their order and complete the checkout process.
5. Your customer submits their order on your website. Your website makes an API call to PayPal to process the transaction; this is invisible to your customer. Once the payment is processed, PayPal sends your website a confirmation.
6. Your customer is taken to your order confirmation screen.

One key advantage to this setup is shoppers have less information to fill out during checkout as they are typically using stored shipping addresses and funding sources within PayPal. This can be perceived by shoppers as a quicker checkout experience.

To find out more, visit http://www.paypal.com