I am designing a website with basically one product at one price, currently proposing to utilise Paypal to process payments.


The success of the site will rely on returning customers. For customers who do not have a Paypal account and who therefore pay by credit/debit card, is there a way of retaining their details so that they don't have to fill out their name, address etc every time?
If Paypal is not suitable for this, are there any recommendations?

If you are using the totally free version of PayPal processing, Users are not required to establish an account with PayPal, but they are offered the opportunity to do so.
However, since all payments are transacted off your site and within the secure PayPal site, they are treated as "non-recurring transactions" unless they have previously established an individual PayPal account ..... if they have established one, they will have the ability to recall all invoices/payments made with that account, which would show not only all payments made to you, but every other seller as well.

The only way to establish (and manage) client accounts is to use a real cart foundation, which has the coding pre-installed to operate with PayPal and Merchant Account processing as well.
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Ok thank you Vasili, any recommendations for the cart?

The fastest "learn" with a bit more ability to "customize" and still the most accommodating (even for downloadable products) would be Soholaunch....