How to add PayPal shopping cart to your website
IMPORTANT NOTICE: PayPal is a third party service which is not associated with ZyWeb in anyway. When you sign up with PayPal you will enter into a separate contract governing your relationship with them. For more information about PayPal you can visit their web site at www.paypal.com. For best results, please ensure that you are already signed up to PayPal. You can learn more about PayPal and sign up here.
PayPal provides a very popular service that allows you to sell items from your own web site and to guarantee receiving the money for them. Best of all you don't need to be a registered business and you don't need a Merchant account. With ZyWeb, it is now possible for Business customers to insert a PayPal button into your webpages for a complete and easy e-commerce solution. This QuickGuide will look at placing a shopping cart into a web page; if you require a guide to implementing single buttons, please check the Buy It Now quickguide. The first stage is either to choose to create a new page, or edit an existing page that you wish to place a PayPal button on. Once you've have gotten past this process, choose an item either above or below where you would like to place the item in the editor. For example, if you wanted to place the button on a Gallery page below a particular image, click on that image.
The first stage is either to choose to create a new page, or edit an existing page that you wish to place a PayPal button on. Once you've have gotten past this process, choose an item either above or below where you would like to place the item in the editor. For example, if you wanted to place the button on a Gallery page below a particular image, click on that image.
A menu will then appear to the upper area of the screen, which is titled "Insert New..." Next to this is a drop-down menu where you can select an item which you wish to add. Select PayPal 'Add To Cart' from this menu, and click on either the above or below buttons to add the item. For example, if you had clicked an image previously, then click on the below button to place the button below that image.
The next screen will allow you to customize six key items to specialize your PayPal button:
PayPal A/C: This is the email address to which payments will be sent. This email address must be one of those you have set up on your PayPal account. PayPal often refers to this as your PayPal business name.
Desc: Enter a short description of the item you are selling. The main description should appear elsewhere on your web page - this short description is used so that your customers can double-check that they are paying for the right thing when they are entering their details into the PayPal system. It will also appear on orders forwarded to you by PayPal so you know what your customers have ordered from you so ensure that it is an accurate and unique description of the item you are selling.
Amount: Enter the amount your customers must pay for this item. If you don't enter anything here then your customers will be able to choose their own amount when they are entering their details into the PayPal system.
Success: Choose a page that will be displayed after your customers have successfully ordered from you. This should typically thank your customers for their order and reassure them that delivery will take place soon. If you don't have a suitable page available you may leave this option set to and the PayPal system will display a suitable page on your behalf.
Failure: Choose a page that will be displayed when your customers' attempts to order from you fail for some reason. This should typically explain that the order has failed and delivery will not take place, and encourage them to try again. If you don't have a suitable page available you may leave this option set to and the PayPal system will display a suitable page on your behalf.
Currency: Choose the currency in which you wish to receive payment. This is the currency in which your prices should be set. Note that this does not force your customers to pay in this currency - they may choose their own currency and conversion will take place automatically.
You will also notice the Full Edit button; this allows you to specify more options for this particular button, including specified shipping and tax prices. Although onscreen instructions are available, more help is provided in our other Quickguide for Buy It Now buttons. If you are providing a series of Add To Cart buttons, then a View Cart button will provide the ability for users to see what items they have added to the cart, as well as remove and edit their chosen items accordingly. They can even get to the checkout from the cart, making it an invaluable feature for those who have a catalog of items. Adding a View Cart button couldn't be simpler. Go to edit your page and click on an item either above or below where you would like to place the button, then from the Insert New... menu, choose PayPal View Cart Button from the drop down menu, then either click the above or below button. All you need to do then, is to type in your PayPal account address in the PayPal A/C field. Click OK to confirm the changes. Continue editing the page as you wish, and when you are done, click on the Finish button to bring up the Save and Publish options on your page. Once you are happy with the settings of your button, click the OK button to confirm the changes. Continue editing the page as you wish, and when you are done, click on the Finish button to bring up the Save and Publish options on your page. To visit PayPal simply click the image below. Alternatively checkout further Paypal Examples, or our more our more detailed button tutorial.
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