PAYPAL LESSON 3

The last item you need on your Catalog Page is a way for customers to view what they have in their Shopping Cart. This is another simple code supplied by the PayPal Button Wizard . It places a VIEW CART button on your page which will take the customer to the Shopping Cart to view contents change quantities or Check Out. The most import thing to know about this code, aside from its being critical like the previous, is it can not be contained within the previous code. It needs its own little area and form.

form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"
input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"
input type="hidden" name="business" value="someone@somewhere.com"
input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"
input type="hidden" name="page_style" value="Primary"
input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/view_cart_02.gif" border="0" name="submit"
/form

If you read and understand the previous code you should be able to understand what is going on with this little piece. The above code is generates the following button. Customers wishing to see how much they have in their Shopping Cart click it and they are taken to the PayPal Shopping Cart for review.

That's all you need to set up a small store for selling your merchandise to the world. Remember PayPal is a limited Shopping Cart solution yet a very solid one and PayPal is a consistent and safe venue for collecting dollars on line. People who tell you otherwise are simply not making sure their coding is correct. Its not hard to use and even if you have thousands of items for sale it can handle them all.

Since writing this tutorial I have found a small Javascript code that expands the use of the PayPal Shopping Cart even further by truncating information and manipulating additional information into the PayPal format. I'll probably present a tutorial on this at a later date - maybe. For now to those just starting an on-line business this tutorial should help cover all you need.

We'll end this now with a final note to complete your customers shopping experience. When ready click HERE