A client has a small site for his hotel and wants to offer online reservation of rooms with the facility to pay online. PayPal certainly seems the cheapest, but the client wants to ensure that potential clients do not have to go through the hassle of creating a paypal account in order to book a room through the website. In other words, clients should be just able to use their credit card with the payment processing being handled through PayPal.

Could someone clarify which payment processing plan makes this possible?

PayPal website payments standard, will do this no problem. It gives them the option to pay with their credit card and or login to their PayPal account. However, if he wants to process the payments sill on his site. He can use paypal website payments pro and or Authorize.net.

Thank you, GCM. He is a small merchant and doesn't want the complication of PCI compliance for processing payments on his site. Paypal standard will do.

Thank you, GCM. He is a small merchant and doesn't want the complication of PCI compliance for processing payments on his site. Paypal standard will do.

No Problem, best of luck on your venture.