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Comin'OutSwingin · March 3rd, 2006

So, rabid, your customers don't have any idea that you are using paypal?

What I would like is maybe use Paypal payments pro, if my customers don't know that paypal is processing the payment, then also have the option to just use paypal standard for customers that WANT to use paypal.

Is this possible?

Rodney · March 3rd, 2006

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Originally Posted by rabid


	I use Website Payments Pro and I accept every form of payment through my cart: Discover, Amex, Visa, MC, money orders and Paypal. I don't need to include their logo anywhere.

This is the requirement that I was referring to:
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCe...lines-pro.html

Rodney · March 3rd, 2006

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Originally Posted by Comin'OutSwingin


	What I would like is maybe use Paypal payments pro, if my customers don't know that paypal is processing the payment, then also have the option to just use paypal standard for customers that WANT to use paypal.

If you're going to be paying the $20 monthly fee for PayPal Pro, you may as well get a "regular" merchant account instead of the PayPal pro (the monthly fees will be about the same).

Then you will be able to have 2 separate payment options and no requirement to let regular credit card customers know how you are processing their payment.

tribecat · March 4th, 2006

Wow, I have received a wealth of information in response to my original post. I am really pleased for all the great input. I am going to check out paypal pro and see what that's all about.
Regarding giving my webdesigner access to my paypal account so he can match up the styles of shirts for checkout, it still seems a bit weird to me, after all, it is linked to my biz checking. Heck, I wouldn't even give my wife that info...
tribecat

rabid · March 4th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Rodney


	This is the requirement that I was referring to: https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCe...lines-pro.html

My shopping cart already shows a button like that for customers who have a Paypal account and want to go that way. Since it's integrated, I didn't have to do anything to meet those requirements since they're already there.

Comin'OutSwingin,

No, my customers have no idea I'm using Paypal, but they can still pay that way if they want since it's an option at checkout. Paypal didn't start charging monthly fees until February I think, so I really haven't done the research yet to see if a regular merchant account would be cheaper in the long run. I'm not in a rush though since I'm earning almost 5% on the money that sits there.

B.

Jehozadak · April 1st, 2006

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Originally Posted by tribecat


	Wow, I have received a wealth of information in response to my original post. I am really pleased for all the great input. I am going to check out paypal pro and see what that's all about. Regarding giving my webdesigner access to my paypal account so he can match up the styles of shirts for checkout, it still seems a bit weird to me, after all, it is linked to my biz checking. Heck, I wouldn't even give my wife that info... tribecat

I recall that If you have a Business Account with Paypal you can add users and restrict their access to certain elements of your account. Log in, go to profile, then Multi-User Access and see what it gives you. I haven't really used it much myself but thought it might help.

Adrian

honeyflip · April 1st, 2006

Great thread. Thanks for all the info, folks. You should be charging consultant fees for some of this stuff. Er, forget I said that.

badalou · April 1st, 2006

I use paypal vertual terminal on one of my sites (wholesale) and the party filling in the info does not know this. when I get the information I just enter the information that I receive through my shopping cart service and go to my vertual paypal account and walla, done deal. it cost me $20. a month.

skulltshirts · April 1st, 2006

I use the paypal shopping cart. So i understand what it would be like to give your account info to a web publisher you dont know.
You could give him access to your account so he can create the html code for the shopping cart, or you can attempt this yourself. It really isnt to hard to do. If you give him access, just remember to reset your account with a new password when your done. If this person is designing your whole site, you should trust him somewhat right. I know, not enough to give him access to your bank account. So I suggest you attempt to create the code yourself. Dont forget to set your shipping options while your at it.

Thomas

mint274 · April 29th, 2006

To make paypal buttons for your site, the web site designer just needs your paypal email address and what you are selling. Paypal buttons are quite easy to do if you use a program like dreamweaver.

bgreaterthan · July 25th, 2007

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to the t-shirt biz and I'm currently working on my website. I'm going to use paypal for payment but I'm confused about what exactly I need. Do I just link my website with paypal? Do I also need a shopping cart? If I have paypal, don't I automatically have shopping cart or is that something separate I need to get? Thanks for any help you can offer. I know these are rookie questions.

Kelly

Rodney · July 25th, 2007

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	If I have paypal, don't I automatically have shopping cart or is that something separate I need to get?

Yes, but it is very limited.

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	Do I also need a shopping cart?

If you want to be able to manage products, orders, shipping, customers ,j product options, more effectively and have a more user friendly shopping process, yes.

There are free shopping carts that you can install like zencart, oscommerce, cubecart that can integrate with PayPal for the payment processing.

skulltshirts · July 25th, 2007

For a paypal cart all you do is login to your account at paypal and look for the add to cart buttons. That generates the code and then you copy the code to your web pages.

RescueShirts · July 25th, 2007

FYI...

I followed some very easy instructions that were on Paypal... and "hacked" the code to do exactly what I needed for selling shirts via the free Paypal shopping cart.

It's fairly simple for my purposes... all I needed is choice of sizes, with additional amount of $$$ for 3XL and 4XL... and a choice of shirt colors...

Brett

mint274 · July 26th, 2007

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Originally Posted by bgreaterthan


	Hi Everyone, I'm new to the t-shirt biz and I'm currently working on my website. I'm going to use paypal for payment but I'm confused about what exactly I need. Do I just link my website with paypal? Do I also need a shopping cart? If I have paypal, don't I automatically have shopping cart or is that something separate I need to get? Thanks for any help you can offer. I know these are rookie questions. Kelly

Hi Kelly,

To make paypal buttons you have to log into your paypal account then go to
merchant services > buy now buttons. That page will ask you about 3 questions and it will then make the html code you need. You have to copy that code and paste it onto your website.

If you want to sell hundreds of t-shirts, I think it would be better to use a free shopping cart system like oscommerce. With oscommerce I can put up 100 t-shirts in about 2 hours. Using the paypal website it would take me about 24 hours to put up 100 t-shirts. Oscommerce does have problems. Customers have to log in to use your website (no one likes to log in to a website). OSC. is a very very complex system and if you tweek it wrong, the whole website will disappear. I put an example of my Oscommerce paypal site in my signature. Hope this information helps.

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