PayPal offers a convenient and low cost way to accept credit cards and with tens of millions of users, there is a vast pool of potential customers. StoreFront 5.0 has supported PayPal since its earliest version, however, there are many features which can be added to enhance order security, site professionalism, and increase revenue by reducing the number of "completed" carts which are not paid for.

LaGarde's StoreFront 5.0 contains the functionality allowing you to accept Credit Cards, Personal Checks, or quasi-cash from your customers using PayPal. However, there are some drawbacks to the default implementation.

1. Early versions of StoreFront prevents you from accepting credit cards using your merchant account and PayPal
2. StoreFront passes the payment information to PayPal in the URL.
3. There is an inherent security risk using PayPal in that the payment information can be altered or forged during the time the customer is away from your site, yet it would appear in the order summary as though the payment was completed. For this reason you should verify payment directly with PayPal's secure site prior to fulfilling the order.
4. StoreFront does not permanently save the customer's order unless the customer returns from the PayPal site. This means a customer can place an order and make payment, but by not clicking the final button at PayPal, you lose the order information. You are then in the embarrassing position of having a payment with no order and having to contact your customer to ask them what they ordered¹.
5. The customer does not have a chance to review the total order before being redirected to PayPal where they will likely see a higher amount than the one they saw on your site - they may just abandon the cart at this point¹
6. A new customer will have enter their information twice, once on your site and again on PayPal's site

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