Shopping.com and PayPal

As all Shopping.com users should know by now, Shopping.com is changing over to PayPal as their payment processor. This has nothing to do with B2C transactions or a return to the Shopping Cart model. This does have everything to do with how Shopping.com takes payments from merchants. Since both companies are owned by eBay, I can only assume someone in the accounting and cost cutting department took a look at the big picture in early 2009, and realized the company was giving away a lot of money to card processors (yes, gas stations all over the country are accutely aware of this).

I bring this up because that transition process will cause numerous headaches for merchants which have not yet switched over by signing up for a PayPal account and adding Shopping.com as a billing entity. Luckily, this is an easy process to do through the Shopping.com admin panel. If you as a merchant have not done this yet, then you can expect your account to potentially come down entirely until this is fixed. Last I checked, Shopping would completley change over by December so there is still some time. However, do you really want to risk your entire account coming down in the middle of Q4?

Of course not, so if you havn’t yet done this, then what are you waiting for?

October 26th, 2009