Paypal postage

[musivarius]

I'm tied into using Paypal only for payments from customers on my website (a Vistaprint one) and am having difficulty getting my head around the shopping cart.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out about:

Combining postage settings
showing stock levels
Any information gratefully received ;)

[webpromoterservice]

i nearly signed up to a vistaprint website a while back but did not go ahead with it,so not much info on how it works.

but you could check your admin help files which will show you how to update your cart and website.

hope this helps.

[musivarius]

Thanks,
Vistaprint direct me to paypal for any questions, they don't really deal with any of that side of it.

Apart from that I think their website package is great. It's really easy to update the site and to add on new things.

[musivarius]

I've just found the Paypal forum for these sorts of things, but it wasn't particularly clear.

So if anyone else can't find it, I went to 'Contact Us' and then clicked onto 'Go to Developer Support'.

[Place of design]

I'm tied into using Paypal only for payments from customers on my website (a Vistaprint one) and am having difficulty getting my head around the shopping cart.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out about:

Combining postage settings
showing stock levels

Any information gratefully received ;)
MAybe worth considering a site where you really do have your hands on the reigns

If I said to a customer "go to paypal support" I would be out of business!!!

[musivarius]

At the moment Vistaprint works well for me but I know what you mean. Unfortunately I don't have the budget at the moment to pay for a total web service.
It is a bit of a pain though, for example I sell 1 kilo of marble pieces for £18.00 and also some of the paper patterns cost £18.00.
Obviously the postage is radically different for both but with Paypal it does appear that I have to set the postage the same for both, at a flat rate or a percentage :(

[ivebeenstiffed]

Hi,

Ive done a bit with the PayPal programmer interface and it accepts a parameter of the value of the shipping.

If you want to combine shipping on multiple purchases then this is probablty best done on your server using a shopping cart. You then send PayPal the "complete" cart information to paypal in the url string. This would also include the "combined" shipping cost....

Here is an example of the code you would need to send

<input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="15.25">
<input type="hidden" name="shipping2" value="1.25">
<input type="hidden" name="handling_cart" value="1.05">

shipping: (applies to first item added to cart)
shipping2: (applies to each additional item added to cart)
handling_cart: (applied once to cart regardless of quantity)


Trev

[musivarius]

Trev,

Thanks I appreciate you putting that information up.................it's gone waaaaaaaaaay over my head :) but my friend is a techno whizz so I'm going to pass it on to him to sort out.

Cheers

Lawrence