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Setting up PayPal

Setting up PayPal

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Setting up PayPal

- [Instructor] One of the most popular payment solutions is PayPal, and that's for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's incredibly easy to set up, both for the merchants and for the customers. The PayPal gateway built into WooCommerce only requires an email address. That's the easiest setup for any gateway. The other reason is that many people keep their spending money in their PayPal accounts. There's a greater chance for someone to spend that money than the money in their bank accounts. Another reason is that people feel safe using PayPal, both because PayPal is very safe and because people have a small amount of money in their accounts to start with. If there was a security issue, they'd lose a relatively small amount of money, compared to someone getting ahold of their credit card and spending thousands. For all of these reasons, people love PayPal. Some online stores get over 50% of their revenue from PayPal. At the very least, it's worth setting up PayPal just to see how…

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