Setting up a PayPal account
To open a Big Cartel store, you need a PayPal Business or Premier account.
To sign up for PayPal account, follow these steps:
- Visit PayPal’s website and click Sign Up Today.
- Select your country or region, your language and choose either the Premier or Business account.
If signing up for a Premier account: fill in all of the required fields presented and click Agree and Create Account.
If signing up for a Business Account:
- Select Website Payments Standard for your Payment Solution and click continue.
- After selecting your Payment Solution, follow the three steps to complete your registration process.
*Note: While completing Step 1, you’ll be asked about your Sales Venue(s), select Other.
Making a PayPal account optional for your buyers
Your customers are not required to have a PayPal account to purchase your Big Cartel products. They can pay using only a credit card if they choose. This is a feature available to Premier and Business PayPal accounts. Learn more »
This should be enabled in your PayPal account by default, but just in case you can head to the Profile > My Selling Tools > Website Preferences section of your PayPal account, and turn on PayPal Account Optional.
If you don’t see an option to pay with a credit card on the PayPal checkout screen, and you’ve enabled PayPal Account Optional as we mention above, then it’s probably because PayPal has set a cookie on your computer that remembers you’ve used a PayPal account in the past. To see the option you can remove all cookies from PayPal.com.