[ecurbh]

It sounds like a great idea, although I think you should set up the PayPal account, since it IS your web site.

OK, I would be willing to do that. Would it be a Premier account or just the standard Personal? I looked at the Paypal site, and it looks like the benefit of the Premier account is that people can make credit card payments to us without needing a Paypal account. Is that correct? There is a a 2.9% transaction fee for that. How would this work, should we set up a seperate bank account to use? I'll check with my web host and make sure it supports secure pages.

Oh, and someone told me they tried www.the-hobbit-hole-net, and didn't see anything. I told them to try freeper. But maybe there should be some link on the www page?

Thanks, I have taken down the www home page and set it up as a redirect to the freeper site. I have basically lost interest in the www side of the site and will be taking it down for a while, except for the message board.

[300winmag]

OK, I would be willing to do that. Would it be a Premier account or just the standard Personal? I looked at the Paypal site, and it looks like the benefit of the Premier account is that people can make credit card payments to us without needing a Paypal account.

I think we want the top-of-line "business" account. That allows business names, and direct credit card payment from non-PayPal members. You could also set up a store in the non-profit section. They also have free shopping cart software.

I'm not sure you'll need secure services from your web host. You just have a link that redirects to the PayPal site. But the link pre-fills a lot of the user's info, making it quicker and easier to fill out the rest.

[SuziQ]

When I set up my Paypal account to Premier status it was so that when we sold stuff on Ebay, we could accept credit cards. I opened an entirely new checking account at our credit union to be the verified account, just in case something strange happened and someone got access to it through Paypal. I didn't want em cleaning out our joint account! So I only pay fees when someone buys something with a credit card. Not sure how it works when someone just sends money and not as a purchase of anything. I guess there would be a transaction fee then, too.