If you are looking to setup a mini shopping store in your website or else adding a simple & short ‘Buy Now’ button in your blog then its really easy with the help of Paypal. These buttons are for single items and are listed under Merchant Services in your Paypal Account.
Merchant Tools :
PayPal is your all-in-one payment solution. PayPal allows you to accept credit cards and PayPal account balances. Customers shop on your website and pay on PayPal. This is an easy, quick way to start accepting credit cards online. A simple integration into your shopping cart allows your customers to pay securely and easily.
Under the Merchant Tools, menu option you will find a link in the right hand side named under – Buy Now Buttons
You can accept payments for – Products, Services, Subscriptions & recurring billing, Donations & Gift Certificates. There is also a option to allow customers to buy Multiple Products which allows you to have a option called ‘Add to Cart’ before Check Out where the buyers can select multiple products and review them and finally make the payments. Paypal allows you to mention multiple prices based on the products specifications like different sizes but the same product can have different pricing, example in case of T-Shirts.
The Customize Button option allows you to :
- Add drop-down menu with price/option
- Add drop-down menu without prices
- Add text field
Shipping : You can setup a fixed amount for Shipping charges on every product sale, in case you are selling a physical product.
Tax : You can setup a % of Tax rate which is automatically calculated on the rate you specify and the final check out amount is displayed with the Tax Amount included.
The advantage of these Buy Now buttons is that they can be created with no set up costs now any other hard coding needed. Just Simple Wizard based options and you get the buttons activated.
