I would like to start a ecommerce site to sell ebooks and I wanted to know, how to add the paypal button to my site so that customers can purchase through paypal.
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I believe the Pay Pal site has a link for that. My web site was created through Yahoo and under the tool menu there was a tab specifically for that. It was very simple. Yahoos site builder was actually very simple to use all in all. I think it would depend on the program used to create your website.
There are explicit instructions within PayPal to help you with this task, which is quite easy.
Start with the Help page, which is linked below.
On the page, at the bottom right, you will see a heading that states, “Using Merchant Services.”
Under that heading is a link for “Adding PayPal to my Web site.” Choose that link or another one on the help page that will assist you.
Good luck.
Shirley George Frazier
Author and Small Business Expert
With ebooks, you’ll probably want them to download the product after payment, that can be a little bit more involved than just adding a button. (people generally expect to be able to download digital products immediately after purchase)
The way to do this is with something called IPN, or “Instant Payment Notification” basically, software on your site listens for events (such as “So-and-so paid me $x.yz”) when it gets such an event, it sets a flag allowing them to download it.
This will do it:
http://www.geniegate.com/listings/payvex/
(Full disclosure, I own PayVeX)
It’ll also work with pecunix. (for international customers)
You could write your own if you wanted, heres a helper class to get you started:
http://www.geniegate.com/other/paypal/
Using OOP, just extend the class with your specific methods. (such as verifying the TXN, amount, payee)