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[karl-tkd]

Hi all,

Can someone please help with setting up a purchase or a buy now for my website.

Thanks...

[bartonflyer]

Karl,

Your best bet is to speak to the hosting provider who hosts your site. To put a form on the site to take personal details you need to use SSL to secure it, for which you need a properly authorised certificate from one of the issuers like Verisign. You then need some way of collecting the data entered into the form into a database if you are going to handle it all yourself.

Two alternatives, you can use one of the photo hosting sites that have purchasing all built in, or you can put in a simple "mailto" link to invite people to enquire then do the rest of the transaction by email.

Cheers
Ian

[lostmysnorkel]

Karl, I know we chatted briefly about this on MSN, and I'm sorry I never got round to it eaarlier - things have been a bit chaotic recently!

Do you have a Paypal account?

If so....log in and:

1: Click 'Merchant tools' tab at top.

2: Left hand side, 2nd panel down, 'Website Payments Integration Guide' PDF
Have a read of that.

OR:

2: Left hand side, 1st panel - 'Website Payments Standard', THEN 'Technical Overview'

3: In the Scenario 2 panel, click 'Integrate Now' link for Paypal Shopping Cart

4: In the panel 'Step One', click the link 'Paypal Shopping Cart'

5: In the yellow box,click 'Get Started'

6: Enter the details you need.

Item Name : Image Title
Item Number: Filebname

price/currencey etc etc.........

7: Click on 'Add More Options' to set your P&P erquirements, and you can drop-down menus for custonmer options ie: B&W/Colour, Matt/Gloss finish etc

WHen happy, click 'Create button Now' and Paypal will generate the HTML code, wgich you can then Copy & Paset into your webpage next to the image.

Once you have generated your first button, you can easily alter the HTML by changing the image number/title etc for each image. Or you can use the Back button on the Paypal site and create another button!

Probably as clear as mud, but this works for me when I build my own and it avoids all the necessary SSL verifications as it's all done through Paypal's own servers, you don't have the responsibility of protecting your customers credit card info.

[karl-tkd]

Matt, this is most helpfull. Thnx so much......