I've been having problems with a message when trying to use Direct Payment with Paypal Pro, getting the following ugly message: Payment failed: Your account is ineligible to use Direct Payment. Please contact customer service. After a lot of hunting around, I discovered a forum discussion where I learned: Posted: 29 Jun 2005 Direct Payment only supports USD at this time. You must also be a US Business account and have complete the application for Website Payments Pro and agreed to the Pro User Agreement. I have included a link below to the Website Payment Pro Integration Guide which explains the signup process. Eric L. PayPal Developer Technical Support We've actually got a UK Paypal account, and this would explain the problem. We've enabled Worldpay, which I understand is a lot more expensive, but it seemed to be a relatively straightforward configuration.