Pay with card as Paypal GUEST.

Customers can use PayPal as a GUEST to process card payments - WITHOUT the need to have or to create a PayPal account!

We have learned that very occassionally, a customer needs a little help in making a payment using PayPal as a guest as it can be a little confusing the first time. So we have created this guide in the hope it helps. 

Once a customer reaches the checkout screen shown below they can fill in their details - as indicated by the red arrows below - OR - if they already have a Costcuttersrus account, they can sign in by clicking on the "Sign in" button - which is circled in green below -  and their  details will be automatically filled in for them. Then, they just have to click on the long blue button near the bottom of the screen and marked "Pay now".

The payment process begins here and the following screen will appear. All the customer has to do is to IGNORE the section below with a red circle and simply click on the button marked "Pay with debit/credit card" in the green circle.

 

Messages may or may not appear saying that PayPal is doing security checks before the next screen shown below appears. This screen requires an email address entering for use by PayPal.

Simply enter an email address and click on the long blue button which says "Continue to Payment" 

PLEASE NOTE

If the email address entered in the screen above is recognised by PayPal for some reason - such as it being used previously in a PayPal account that has now been closed - PayPal is not very good at housekeeping and may assume this email address is STILL being used with a valid PayPal account, in which case the following screen will appear.

Simply IGNORE the blue "Log In" button (that we have highlighted above with a red circle) and click on the button below it that reads "Check out as a guest" (that we have highlighted with a green border above.)

 

The next screen to appear will need the customers card details entering and looks like this;

PLEASE NOTE. About halfway down this screen there is the following round, black tick button with a tick symbol in it. This is the DEFAULT value setup by PayPal with the tick indicating that the customer wants to create a PayPal account! 

The customer now has two options. 

1. If they DO indeed decide to create a PayPal account - which is NOT necessary to complete their payment as a GUEST but which is something a customer might decide they want to do - then leaving this black button with the tick in it will enable them to create a PayPal account from here. 

2. Customers who DO NOT want to create a PayPal account but wish to continue and pay as a GUEST must click on the black tick button. Doing so changes the screen to look like the following image.

Customers who DO NOT WANT to create a PayPal account can IGNORE the text that says "Save information and create your PayPal account" and simply click on the long blue "Pay Now" button to complete their purchase.