Adding paypal or paypal pro

[Singer1]

OK
So I am building my site WEBEASY PRO 7 and adding items to sell,
I went to paypal and I look at the paypal adding tax page

Big bummer here, to start with I only have to tax CA people.
well that would be no problem if I was to charge 1 TAX price for everyone but thats not legal or right to others

I would have to add the tax to every CITY in CA by there ZIP code,
That means I would have to sit here for ever and then at the end of it ..IT won't work..I called paypal they said oh no you don't want to add all that by zip .. cause it most likely wont work GREAT!!


So they said get a 3rd party cart and then use them.
So has any here done this and what the best EASYest way to do this ?

I would love to be able to add the PAY pal pro
Direct Payment API --------BUT programing is needed ??

Has any one here ever done that ? if so how do you do this in WEB EASY 7 ?
HELP please thanks for any info or replys :cool:

[Dave Koehler]

What you are looking for is Americart. I use it and no problems. Price is right. It handles paypal thing. Look in the ecommerce folder for the link.

Dave Koehler

[RonHills]

AmeriCart charges $300/year for their service, whether you sell anything or not! Oscommerce is a free, open source shopping cart that integrates with PayPal. Also note that PayPal allows you to calculate sales tax by state, but not by zip.

[Dave Koehler]

That OScommerce thing looks interesting. Are you using this?

I might be able to handle it now but not in the beginning. I will have to study it to see what issues may crop up. Where I now pay for the privilege of having no issues, who do you talk to, etc. when something goes awry with an open source setup? Is there another cost in there not seen? I am just not sure that dealing with something else that is in a constant beta state (like WE:p) is a step forward.

Americart made for an easy way to get going because the hard stuff was integrated into WE. I already accepted credit cards and I didn't have to change my layout. I do wish I had smaller buttons though.

I can't complain about the expense. That's just business. One must pay for a service. In this case they were a good fit because I don't need or want a realtime processor. I handle all the CC stuff in house instead of paying another go between.

I initially just did the month to month thing to see how things were going to go. It worked out so I buy the yearly package at the moment. It's just part of the overhead.

Dave Koehler

[RonHills]

Hi Dave;

I'm not criticizing your choice of Americart, but I've seen a number of people who think that the minute they get an e-commerce site on line that the money just pours in. We know that is seldom the case. So I hate to see someone commit to long term expense until they see the some results.

I'm in the process of adding ecommerce to one of my sites, and I had heard some good comments about OsCommerce. By mere coincidence, last week I signed up with a new hosting service (ix web hosting) and they support oscommerce. (I got tired of 1 hour + hold times with ipower hosting).

If you go to the IX Web Hosting page that compares their 3 plans, on the right side of the page is a link to "CONTROL PANEL DEMO". Under e-commerce you find OsCommerce listed.

As soon as I get the oscommerce incorporated into the site I send you the URL so you can check it out.

On a different note, I have never seen so many people pissed off at a software company as I have witnessed on this bulletin board. I think that this French company that owns Avenquest only cares about turning dollars into Francs. I hope they see the feedback that I posted about their product AND LACK OF TECH SUPPORT on newegg.com! The best way to get some action is for everyone to start posting negative feedback where they purchased the product.

Best regards,
Ron Hills
Technology For Industry
Johnson City, NY

[davidrosso]

Hi Dave;

...By mere coincidence, last week I signed up with a new hosting service (ix web hosting) and they support oscommerce. (I got tired of 1 hour + hold times with ipower hosting)..


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[Dave Koehler]

Hi Dave;

I'm not criticizing your choice of Americart, but I've seen a number of people who think that the minute they get an e-commerce site on line that the money just pours in. We know that is seldom the case. So I hate to see someone commit to long term expense until they see the some results.


Instant pour in? Wouldn't that be nice.:D Agreed that it takes time, advertising and have something someone wants. Agreed again that free is always a good thing but if free is not the primary concern then we have other choices. With Americart there is no need for a long term commitment. I didn't. I started with 1 free month which is good for ironing out the kinks. I then went month to month for a while. Then I went longer term for my own convenience and overall savings. I suspect most services have the time purchase option.

Now, if one has only a few items and the profit is too low to cover the ecommerce overhead then certainly using a product like ocommerce makes sense.

For what it's worth I did the ecommerce thing primarly for the benefit of myself and overseas clients so we could avoid the language barrier issues and that has worked well. Most stateside customers still use the web site as the catalog and call in the order. Some of my repeat former call in only customers will now use the ecommerce portion to order in the middle of the night while it's fresh in their minds. It's just a convenience factor. Those that are comfortable with it will use it. Those that aren't will call in. It all plays a part in making ecommerce pay for itself.

Dave Koehler

[coolkidz33]

I am setting up my website and am listing some products on it to sell with a shopping cart. I am using Costco to take my credit cards through Quickbooks. Is there a way to incoporate that into my site? It only give me 5 options to be able to take credit cards and I do not want to sign up with any more or pay more fees. Any thoughts?

Jon

[Dave Koehler]

Jon,
If I understand you right you will be handling the credit card and customer information in house, correct? You will still need a shopping cart service in order to collect the actual order and cc info. I use Americart for that purpose because I also do the paperwork in house. I also use QB premiere. Americart was the easiest route for me.

By chance did you look into QBs credit card acceptance service? That might make it a little more seamless on that end than using costco.

The free oscommerce shopping cart spoken of earlier is also an option.

Dave

[ejuice]

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I'm nearly done with my web design, with one problem. When I was adding seperate lines of text in the left panel, it looked great, but as soon as I preview in I.E. 2 of the lines sort of morph together. I can actually go back to the workspace and delete the active line, but the other remains in preview mode with no continuity at all. Somebody please help.

Thanks.
ejuice

[jonboy]

Singer1: I'm not sure how it is done in California, but in Arizona you collect sales tax based on the location of the seller, not the buyer, as that is the point of sale. When you think about it that only makes sense and is what you do on a daily basis, as a retailer does not ask for your city or county of residence when you purchase something. You might want to check with your state taxing authority to see if they do something different or have different rules when a sale is made over the internet.

[Support_JH]

When I was adding seperate lines of text in the left panel, it looked great, but as soon as I preview in I.E. 2 of the lines sort of morph together. I can actually go back to the workspace and delete the active line, but the other remains in preview mode with no continuity at all.

Tough to say without being able to see it, but first make sure you leave some extra space in the text boxes for those lines that are overlapping, and make sure the enlarged boxes don't overlap.