Creating Custom Payment Pages on PayPal -- SUPER EASY!

I'm not sure if Photobucket is using a secure server or not. I just looked at my account and not even the locked albums are displaying the lock icon. The URL doesn't even show whether it's http:// or https://. However, my Picasa account shows both the https:// and the lock icon.

I use the free version of Photobucket, so maybe they only use secure servers for paying customers? I wouldn't know. Either way, I've recently decided to start using my Picasa account instead, anyway, due to Photobucket's glitchiness and latest server issues that had them down for nearly 24 hours. So at least I know what I link to there will be on a secure server and I have never known Google's servers to go down.

I haven't had a chance to try it out, yet, but do plan to very soon. There are several things I need to get into place for 2016 -- organizing files, updating profiles and ads, getting the purpleirisplaza.com email set up on 1&1, etc. -- as well as getting ready to file taxes later this month. So I'll be sure to add this task to that list.

By the way, I found out why we can't add our own biz logo to the shipping labels after asking about it on PayPal's forums. PayPal is the account holder (I believe they use Endicia), so it is their logo that gets displayed and there's no way for us to change it. That makes sense, but it sure would be nice if we could. LOL

I haven't had a chance to try it out, yet, so I'm not sure if you can use a custom one for each store. While I've used different names on the different sites I sell on, my main business is Purple Iris Plaza and that's the name I use for everything. For example, my eCrater shop is still The Purple Iris (the original biz name), my Etsy shop is Purple Iris Classics, and my Storenvy shop is Purple Iris Plaza because I consider that my own dot com.

So, Purple Iris Plaza is what is displayed on PayPal invoices and shipping labels and, when I talk about my business (ie, on About pages), I refer to it as Purple Iris Plaza no matter which store it is. Although, I haven't updated my Etsy About page since opening my own shop, but I do make reference to it there.

It's not uncommon for businesses to have a number of different names, having a parent company that the others are subsidiaries of, which is typically due to offering different products or services and/or serving different regions. Basically, my Etsy shop offers only the vintage items, while my eCrater shop offers all of the pre-owned stuff and some new, and my PIP shop offers everything I sell.

Since it's my own dot com that I want to draw attention to, the shop where I offer everything, I have no problem using the PIP name on my PP invoices. Of course, it helps that all of my shops have the same theme with the purple iris logo and matching banners and that I make reference to my main biz name, so it's not all that confusing to customers.