Invoice to customer without PayPal account

[wisedave]

Hello,

How can I send an invoice to a customer via PayPal and not require them to have a PayPal account?  I want them to be able receive an invoice from us and be able to pay now and have their invoice details already populated with the abilty to pay without having to log into their PayPal account.

I have paid accounts this way, but now want to set up some invoices to do the same.

How can I do this?  Also, is there a way to make an invoice a PDF and have a Pay Now button that it hyperlinked to their invoice?

Thanks for any help or direction!

-Dave

[tservers · Accepted solution]

For your first issue, all you need to do is just send the person the invoice and tell them that when they get to the PayPal page, there will/should be some text on the left side of the page that says something similar to:

Want to make this purchase with a credit card and don't have a PayPal account? Click Here!

or something similar. Those aren't the exact words, but there is a link on the page that allows a person to pay you to your PayPal account without them having to log in or have a PayPal account.

As far as the .pdf file, it won't work because you'll need to grab the data from the PayPal site and convert it to .pdf. BEFORE you send it to someone, which again will be impossible because the .pdf file won't be able to send all the hidden data that goes with the form back to PayPal.

[wisedave]

Hello,

I see it now....somehow I thought that link would be more prominent.  Like you said, I will just advise people of the option on the left side.

Thanks for taking the time!

Cheers,

Dave

[tservers]

Believe me,, I said the same thing.... That should be more visible for people to see, or at least in bold red or bigger fonts or something...... but it's there.