Paying online for a service

[netro1]

Hi

I run a business with a friend and we charge for events on specific days at various locations.

The problem I have is with PayPal - We need a pay online option and in that respect, PayPal is great, but it is very time consuming setting up buttons. We need each payment button to be different, so that we as well as our customers know the location/date/time/event - as all events are the same price, we need to know which one is being paid for.

Is there an easier way to do this to avoid setting up buttons in PayPal all the time?

I am also considering switching the site to a Joomla! install, so if any knows of a suitable extension, that would be great too!

I hope this makes sense

Many thanks

[netro1]

Also it would be nice if there was a way to automatically remove the payment option once the date has passed!

[limessl]

Hi

I run a business with a friend and we charge for events on specific days at various locations.

The problem I have is with PayPal - We need a pay online option and in that respect, PayPal is great, but it is very time consuming setting up buttons. We need each payment button to be different, so that we as well as our customers know the location/date/time/event - as all events are the same price, we need to know which one is being paid for.

Is there an easier way to do this to avoid setting up buttons in PayPal all the time?

I am also considering switching the site to a Joomla! install, so if any knows of a suitable extension, that would be great too!

I hope this makes sense

Many thanks

You'd be wise to check nbill if you are thinking of Joomla. I use it and it's been an absolute godsend - perfect for anything that's not a bog-standard "add this to your cart and pay" type e-commerce. Oh and the support forum is second to none.

www.nbill.co.uk (http://www.nbill.co.uk)

[netro1]

Thanks I will give that a look :)

[shopintegrator]

Hello Netro1,

You could use the Shop Integrator solution to do what you need. Simply replacing the Pay Pal buttons on your site with our Interactive Product Table ecommerce plugin. You would create each event as a product in your online admin website and as you add or remove it from the category your website automatically updates the list of event products in the table to reflect the current list of event without editing your web pages again.

You could have a list of locations assigned to each event and you could give each event product a list of date buyer choice options so the customer picks a specific date and location they want to attend for each event. You add/remove your location and date options for each event through your online admin website and these automatically update on your website without editing your web pages again.

You may want to use the quantity control feature to control the number of places available for each event so you don't oversubscribe events at each location for a given date. As the customer purchases the places on the event, the quantity of places are automatically reduced for that event product for the chosen date until it is sold out.

Our low costs solution would allow you to quickly switch out your Pay Pal buttons for the Shop Integrator ecommerce plug-ins with little change to your current website. You copy and paste the dynamic ecommerce plugins in to your site in the same way that you added the Pay Pal buttons, but because the ecommerce plugins are dynamic, you change prices, add dates etc. with your online admin website much more easily than creating new Pay Pal buttons, editing HMTL, uploading changes etc. Your customer is then transferred at the final stage to the PayPal secure payment page to pay you with their debit/credit card or PayPal payment as you are already used to.

[Ampheon]

Why not use a service like http://www.regonline.co.uk which can handle the whole management and payment for you - then all you need to do is have a single link out to them and the rest can be done from the RegOnline site.