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Oh wise person, please help me with my shopping cart confusion!
OK here I go...Originally I was going to cut and paste paypal buttons and paypal carts to my website. However, I currently have over 50 products, and plan to have about 100 when I finish photographing...And I plan to have thousands once I quit my day job (just a little exaggeration). Most every product i offer can be ordered in different, colors, lengths, and/or metals (silver or gold). Some of these options require additional $ added to the price. This is not very efficient when it comes to using the paypal standard service. However, I realized today that I am actually enrolled in Paypal Pro, because I pay monthly for the "virtual terminal" fees for my credit card transactions at arts and crafts shows.
So the guy at PayPal said I could integrate a third party cart. Naturally I picked Oscommerce because it is free and first on the list. I watched the tutorial and installed it, wrote down all the important info. NOW WHAT? The second tutorial starts at some menu i have never seen before. How do I get there. I'm sure once I get there I can figure it out. Where do I go? This is where i am totally lost! Do I need to integrate...I don't understand, I need a shopping cart, not a whole other program to make the website....just a shopping cart. A shopping cart that will link my B.V. website. I wish paypal's cut and paste had a little more flexiblity, because I wouldn't mind pasting the code 500 times. At least I would know what I was doing!
One more thing, I LOVE the B.V. drag and drop system. It is totally AWESOME! My website is super duper fabuloso and I am not willing to change the layout of it for the world. Is this OsCommerce going to change the look of my site? This is where I get confused!
Thanks in advance for reading this post. I really appreciate the feedback and information that has been provided to me both directly and indirectly. I only hope that I can become a pro at this and help other people on the forum too someday! Can wait until I am finally done and can post the site on the forum for a good critique:)
So the guy at PayPal said I could integrate a third party cart. Naturally I picked Oscommerce because it is free and first on the list. I watched the tutorial and installed it, wrote down all the important info. NOW WHAT? The second tutorial starts at some menu i have never seen before. How do I get there. I'm sure once I get there I can figure it out. Where do I go? This is where i am totally lost! Do I need to integrate...I don't understand, I need a shopping cart, not a whole other program to make the website....just a shopping cart. A shopping cart that will link my B.V. website. I wish paypal's cut and paste had a little more flexiblity, because I wouldn't mind pasting the code 500 times. At least I would know what I was doing!
One more thing, I LOVE the B.V. drag and drop system. It is totally AWESOME! My website is super duper fabuloso and I am not willing to change the layout of it for the world. Is this OsCommerce going to change the look of my site? This is where I get confused!
Thanks in advance for reading this post. I really appreciate the feedback and information that has been provided to me both directly and indirectly. I only hope that I can become a pro at this and help other people on the forum too someday! Can wait until I am finally done and can post the site on the forum for a good critique:)
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