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Old 10-01-2007, 05:28 PM
Fitz Fitz is offline
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Default Re: Is Shopping Cart needed to sell 10 items on site?

Yep, for ten products I'd give PayPal a try too. You don't even need a separate cart because PayPal has a "button factory" - and it's free. For straightforward products which have no options (like drop-downs etc) lift the button factory code from PayPal once, have a good look at it and you'll see the obvious parts which you can manually alter for subsequent simple products (e.g. just change description, price, SKU code and leave the other bits as they are).

Watch out if using an old version of DreamWeaver, however, as copying and pasting the code can add spaces at the start of lines which can stop the script working.... so either remove any extra spaces DW puts in at the start of script snippet lines, or add and edit the snippets in a text editor outside of DW. Check all buttons work properly on the site too (sounds obvious I know but you really must check every button 'live' - I do this religiously with PayPal enabled stores).

One other thing... sign up for their "Virtual Terminal" (£20 GBP per month here in the UK) and they give you a virtual terminal (for phone or postal orders) too. Their blurb says you have to enable "express checkout" to use that but I've not done that (way too technical for my simple site).

Lastly, there is also an area on their site where a whizzkid has added further functionality in the form of free code downloads and a tutorial. That's for your drop-down options etc. and is useful if you really do, like me, want to avoid the hassle of combining PayPal with a third party cart.
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