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

[John G. Heim]

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
>> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 5:03 PM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> 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.
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>>
>>
>> Mike Freeman
>>
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