Selling Things on Your Website, Using PayPal

What is PayPal?

PayPal is a very popular system for accepting online payments, and is perfect if you want to easily sell products from your website. It lets you accept payment from other PayPal accounts, and from credit cards. It has fees, but they're far better than most other credit card processors.

If you want to accept payments online, having a PayPal payment option on your website is almost essential, as many people will only want to pay by PayPal.

You can transfer your PayPal balance to your bank account at any time.

How to Set Up PayPal

First, you'll need to click here and sign up with PayPal, if you don't already have an account. You should choose Premier Account when it asks.
Once you've signed up, click the Merchant Services tab.
Click Website Payments Standard, on the menu at the top left.
Underneath Sell multiple items with a free PayPal shopping cart, click Create One Now.
Type an Item Name and a Price. Type in a Postage cost if necessary.

+ CLICK HERE FOR EXTRA INSTRUCTIONS IF YOU'RE SELLING A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT

You'll need to upload your products somewhere, and then set the page where the file is hosted as the "thankyou page" that the customer will be taken to after their PayPal purchase.

Upload your files there, but set the files to Private. Each file should have a page where you can download that file.

Back on the PayPal website, click on Step 3, then tick Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout, and put in the address of the page at MediaFire where your product is.

Click Create Button at the bottom.
Copy the code from the Website box, and put it into the HTML of your page. To do this in WordPress, click Pages, then click on the page you want to put the code in. Then click the little HTML tab, and paste the code in there. You can then click Visual to see your page again.
On the PayPal website, click Create a View Cart button. This is a button that allows the visitor to see what they've put in their cart, and then pay.
Click Create Button.
Copy the code from the Website box, and put it into your website, the same way you pasted the other code.

That's it. Now people can buy things from your website. You'll receive an email whenever someone makes a purchase. Then you can send the item the visitor has bought.

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