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I've had a Paypal account for years and I'm now in the process of standing up a web site to sell my pens. Way back when there was code that you had to paste into the auction so that the bidders could see that you took credit cards (via Paypal of course). My account (web) came with a free shopping cart tool. What do I need to do to tie it to Paypal, or is it even possible?

TIA!
 
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Yes Tia, it is possible to tie PayPal in with shopping carts, but it is not easy.

I think the best thing to do is to just add the "add to cart" and "view cart" buttons using PayPal and let PayPal handle your cart functions. Look at your account and see Merchants Tools. That will help explain what I am talking about.
 
Billy - I'm going to start calling you Tia now! [8D]

Bob's suggestion of looking at the PayPal Merchant Tools is a good one.

Scott.
 
Okay, I might try it now too [:I]

I took a peek and there seems to be so many options. I am assuming the top one suits me best but not too sure. I guess I will be busy reading about these option this weekend.
 
Oh, you guys!!! Anyway, thanks for the info! I'll give it a shot, but I have a related question. If I just use the Paypal provided cart, how will that affect the automation of removing the now sold item from my page? Make sense?
 
Billy,
Go to PayPal and set yourself up as a mechant, but don't select the Web Payments Pro. PayPal has a tool that generates the code to add to your HTML docs for the shopping cart. It's easy. You only have to generate it once and then just change the item name and price for everything else.
 
Billy,

Give Paypal a call. When I was building a web site for a customer, I had an issue with a discount code that he wanted to apply. They walked me through it on the telephone. I could not believe they even had a phone number, let alone someone with a brain cell that would answer it.

Fangar
 
Originally posted by woodmuse
<br />I may be wrong on this, and I hope someone corrects me, but I seem to remember when I checked into this, that you will have to remove the sold item manually. Which 'may' present a problem if someone buys the item, and before you remove it, someone else buys the same item, and they both have sent you paypal'ed money (for the same item - and someone may not be happy about it ;(

The way I believe you can remove it automagically is to use a backend database and some coding.


Originally posted by alamocdc

You would have to tie it to an underlying (i.e. back end) database. When the customer leaves the PayPal payment screen, they can be redirected to a page on your server, and the PayPal payment screen will hand off the product number(s) ordered and some other info to you during the redirect. You can then take the item out of your inventory pretty easily if you're using a back-end database.
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Note that there are two ways of doing this. For me, Beartooth woods allow me to buy via PP without listing the country that is shipped to on the PP form. Others do. PP will not let me order to Japan on a CC that is billed to the US. I have one CC that stays with its billing address in the US. I cannot us that one with PP - Except with BTWoods.

Since I just changed back to Japan, some of my CC/PP transactions are in limbo. I have to wait until everything gets straight - except for BTWoods. (In other words, the shipping address's country on the order form must correspond to the billing address's country of the CC for PP on most PP setups.)

SO the point is there are two apparent ways that this can be handled. You, on the other hand, may not be expecting any international purchases from traveling/repatriated Americans.
 
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