[nfbcs] Setting Up a Website to Accept Payments via PayPal

[Nimer Jaber]

Hello,

I would recommend allowing Paypal to do the work for you. Unless
you're using a CMS in which case there are plugins to add shopping
cart functionality that are accessible...I've personally played with
ZenCart and with Drupal. Ify ou have any questions about these, let me
know. Otherwise I'd use the code that Paypal pays you save a bit of
tweaking to resize or something and allow them to handle the
transaction on your behalf. You won't have to worry too much about
maintenance this way. Just set up a business paypal account (I don't
remember what it's called as it's been a while since I've set one up)
and copy the code in. This truly is your easiest solution.

Thanks.

On 8/12/14, John G. Heim via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I haven't done this for a couple of years but if all you want to do is
> to set up a button for donations, you will find a link to a wizard for
> that on the paypal site. It generates HTML code you cut/paste into your
> web page. The user clicks the button and is transfered to the paypal
> site where it asks how much he wants to donate and stuff like that.  We
> have a donate on the IAVIT web site (www.iavit.org). It's been used like
> a half dozen times since I set it up. It seems to work.
>
> Anything more complicated than a donate button requires scripting. IMO,
> it's a bad idea to write your own e-commerce scripts unless you're going
> to do it for a living. It's too easy to make a mistake that a hacker can
> take advantage of. Better to use an e-commerce package.
>
> I am currently in the process of searching for a good, accessible
> e-commerce package. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd be glad to
> hear of them.
>
>
> On 08/11/14 22:13, Jim Barbour via nfbcs wrote:
>> RTFM stands for "read the frickin' manual"  Mike is saying he's
>> pining away for good developer documentation.
>>
>> Mike, Brian Buhrow knows something of paypal.  He set it up for
>> California a few years ago, though we don't use his set up any longer.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:06:43PM -0700, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs
>> wrote:
>>> but PayPal doesn't seem to have anything catering to a RTFM type like
>>> me.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by this?
>>>
>>> Nicole
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>>> via
>>> nfbcs
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>>> Subject: [nfbcs] Setting Up a Website to Accept Payments via PayPal
>>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is growing interest within my affiliate to set up our affiliate
>>> website to accept payments via PayPal. I'll admit that I'm a bit
>>> old-fashioned about this sort of thing so am not terribly enthused at
>>> the
>>> prospect. I'm the webmaster so write my own code. My question is this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a narrative document somewhere that describes in detail the
>>> process
>>> for setting up one's website to accept PayPal, i.e., accept payments via
>>> credit cards, bank accounts and the like? I realize that PayPal says it
>>> makes things relatively simple by offering code to just plop down into
>>> one's
>>> own website code but, frankly, I'd like to know the requirements and
>>> process
>>> step-by-step ahead-of-time rather than learning by doing. I'm willing to
>>> do
>>> this after reading a detailed description but PayPal doesn't seem to
>>> have
>>> anything catering to a RTFM type like me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, PayPal seems to have provision for separate web coding to process
>>> donations than it does for accepting payment for registration etc. Is
>>> this
>>> really necessary?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> T I A.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Freeman
>>>
>>>
>>>
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