Paypal: accept credit/debit card without paypal account

Question

to accept paypal payments i have see there are the following options for developer:

• Express Checkout
• PayPal Payments Standard
• PayPal Payments Advanced

Which of these options accept the credit/debit cards without the buyer has the paypal account? With Express Checkout is possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

I used express checkout to accept payments even if the customer does not have a paypal account

You need to set PayPal Account Optional in your account/sandbox and set SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole in the SetExpressCheckout API call.

Answer 2

Express Checkout: in which user needs to have a valid Paypal account.

PayPal Payments Standard and PayPal Payments Advanced are the two solutions offered by Paypal having different features, you can see a comparison of both here.

Another method is Direct Payment (i.e. in which user can pay with credit cards directly without having any Paypal account). Direct Payment API

For this direct payment api you need to enable Website Payment Pro WPP , here you can get info about WPP.