PayPal Optional is a handy little setting within your PayPal accout which allows you to say whether or not customers can use any old credit card to pay you or whether they need to have a PayPal account. For most people, having PayPal Optional set to on and taking payments with regular credit cards is the way to go. This setting shows under Profile > Website Payment Settings as PayPal Optional : On / Off. However, if you have failed to confirm your email address (by clicking on the confirmation link in the confirmation email which was sent to the specified address), then you will not see this setting under Website Payment Settings. So if you’re not seeing it, check your account home page when you log into PayPal. If you haven’t confirmed your address, you’ll see a notification about it in a panel on the right side of the screen. You can choose to have the confirmation resent and click the confirm link once you receive it. And voila, you should then be able to see the setting for PayPal Optional under Website Payment Settings.
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