PayPal is a full service payment processor used on many eCommerce website. Using it can be as simple as putting a "Donate" button on your site to as complex as developing PayPal applications using it API and testing sandbox. In between is the PayPal shopping cart which provides a decent shopping cart to your site.
Here are some good books to get you started.
Pro PayPal E-CommerceThis book suitable of web designers and developers is written by Damon Williams who is Program Manager of Paypal Developer Network and presents at various PayPal and PayPal developer conferences. With all the different implementation method that PayPal has to offer, I couldn't say it any better than what is on the front cover of the book: "Discover the breadth of payment options that PayPal offers, from basic HTML solutions to the powerful Website Payments Pro and Express Checkout options" |
PayPal For DummiesThis book starts from the beginning by covering how to opening a Paypal account and make purchases. It has a chapter on protecting yourself online. Since PayPal and eBay are under one company, this book also shows you how to list item on eBay which heavily uses PayPal. It covers sending invoice and shipping. For coders, the book covers creating PayPal buttons, setting up recurring payments, shopping cart, as well as working with PayPal sandbox and API. If you want ten reasons to add PayPal to your web site, see chapter 21. |
PayPal HacksThere are chapters in this book for PayPal users (such as "Account Management", "Making Payments", and "Selling with PayPal". And there are chapters in this book for developers (such as "PayPal Buttons", "Storefronts and Shopping Carts", "PayPal Web Services API", etc). As the title of the book implies, the book covers some lesser known topics such as IPN, PDT, and paying from a cell phone. |
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