Prestashop and Pal: To encourage payments by credit card without a Paypal account

When starting its online store Prestashop or when you're a small shop, there is often little or no interest to take out a merchant account with their bank to offer payment by credit card. The solution is simple to set up payment by Paypal only (and you pay a commission only if you sell), which is proposed by default Prestashop.

The problem is that some people, especially businesses, do not want to open a Paypal account to make purchases on the Internet. So we will show you how to enable your customers to pay by credit card (CB) without opening a Paypal account, your PrestaShop store.

The module provides PayPal with PrestaShop allows two types of payment:

• The first payment by Paypal.
• The second, less known, is to pay with her ​​credit card directly without creating a Paypal account.

The problem is that with the module provides PayPal with PrestaShop, you only have one choice: "Pay with PayPal".
A client who does not have a Paypal account (and not wanting), who is not aware of the fact that you can pay directly with his credit card on Paypal, surely abandon his basket. And you lost them.

We will see how to modify the module to obtain a second choice "Pay Card, Visa, MasterCarde, Aurora ..." and when we click on this option, see an explanation (without popup) to indicate the client how to make payment directly by credit card without a Paypal account.

Indeed, when customers pay directly by credit card on Paypal, it does not necessarily fall on the page for that. It may well fall on a login page. Only a small link at the bottom left allows access to the payment page directly. This is done according to the presence of a cookie Pal present or not on the machine.
It is therefore necessary to show a little help, to guide the customer.
You can see the results on our online store with the following captures:

Aware that the steps we describe are not always simple, modified and translated the module is available in our shop priced at 10 € all inclusive.

In any case, our team will not be held responsible if the module you are going to change no longer works. Remember to make backups!

Added option "credit card payment" Paypal module

We will change the appearance of the module Paypal. So you go into the folder "modules" of your installation Prestashop, and open the file Paypal.tpl.
At the beginning of the file, you will find a first tag </ p>. This corresponds to the "Pay with PayPal".

To add a second, we will imitate this tag.

Add:

Inside this tag, create a link with an image of your choice.

Then inside the link, we will create a call JavaScript, to display the help (which we will create later).

This call, uses the framework Jquery (loaded by default in Prestashop). When we will click on the option, it will display with a transparent effect, aid.
The helpPaypal # is an identifier for the party help, you can change it, but think of the note.

The parts containing the type code: "{ls = 'text'}" are the texts to be displayed by the module. You can then translate them into the administrative interface of PrestaShop.

Creation of aid

We will now create the part that displays the user help.
At the end of the file, create a div in which you put the ID previously returned the call Javascript.

To make the div, more attractive, we apply a style, with a border in "dots".

Important: You must think of him apply a style to ensure that aid is not displayed at all times.

Inside the div we will add two buttons, one above and one below, to proceed to checkout (important!).

This is the onClick attribute that can do this with the value "javascript: $ ('# paypal_form'). Submit ();"

For users of Prestashop version 1.3.1 and above, the button should be as follows:

Finally inside the div no longer fail to add the images explaining the procedure and the text. It is important to explain to the customer, it may fall on a page that does not allow to pay by credit card and must click on the link "continue" at the bottom left of the page.

For this you can use these tags <img src="" alt="" /> and for text <p> {ls = 'mod =' paypal '} </ p>.

Text Translation modules the

You have added the various sentences needed to help and the new option. It'll just bring them to your module is available in French and in all other languages.
For this appointment in the administration of Prestashop, then to "Tools> Translations".
In the first field, choose "modules" and click the French flag.

It'll just find the module Paypal and make translations.

Conclusion

Now when you make a purchase, you should get a new option. When you click once on it, assistance should be displayed with two buttons used to switch the payment.
This change will allow you not to lose customers who do not have Paypal account, and will allow you to move from one module credit card, at least initially.

Aware that the steps we have described are not always simple, modified and translated the module is available in our shop priced at 10 € all inclusive.

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