(c) 2006 Blogadr.com http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/ PayPal payment system is a ideal way to sell items online through the use of their shopping cart or single item purchase system. It is now possible to make sure a visitor to your web site has actually purchased an item from you before they are able to download it. There you will be able to setup a shopping cart and immediately publish it on your website. Blogadr.com is pleased to offer PayPal tutorials. You will be able to see how to perform routine tasks in your PayPal. How To Set Up a Shopping Cart Using PayPal? Tutorial covers the following topics: en-us Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_register.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_register.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to sign up for a new Paypal account. Select the type of account you would like to have. Note that you can always upgrade your account once you have registered. Select the country where you live. Enter your personal information. Your name and address should match your records for your credit card and bank account. Enter a valid email address. You will use this address as your Paypal account login. Now create a password. Make it a minimum of 8 alpha-numeric characters (no spaces or special characters). Remember that your password is case sensitive. Create and answer 2 security questions. These will be used as verification of your identity in the event you lose your password. Click to confirm that you have read and agreed to Paypal's User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Enter the code you see here. This is a security measure that helps prevent automated account registrations. You have initiated the registration process. Now check your email to see the confirmation email sent to you by Paypal. This is the email you will receive. You will now need to activate your account. You can do it one of two ways. You can click this link in the email... or you can login to your Paypal account and activate it from there. Click to manually confirm the email you received. You will need to enter the confirmation number in your email. Simply copy this number to your clipboard... and paste it here. As you can see, the email has been successfully confirmed. Click Continue to go back to your Paypal account. Note: You are allowed a maximum of one Personal account and one Business/Premier account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_verify.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_verify.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to verify your new Paypal account. This involves adding a bank account to your Paypal account. Enter all your bank details and click to submit the request. You will find the routing and account information at the bottom of your checks. Paypal will make 2 small deposits to your account. You should see them within a few days. Enter those amounts here in your Paypal account to complete the verification process. Click Continue to initiate the verification process. Remember to keep an eye out for the 2 small deposits in your bank account. You are now able to verify your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_addcreditcard.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_addcreditcard.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to add your credit card to your Paypal account. You will then be able to use your credit card as an alternate source of funds when sending money via Paypal in the event your Paypal account balance does not cover your payment. You can click here to add your credit card... or you can do it via your account profile. Enter your credit card details. Make sure you enter a correct value for the Card Verification number. It is the last 3 numbers on the back of your credit card (except for American Express where it is the last 4 numbers on the front of the card). Specify a billing address. This should exactly match the address on your credit card statement since many credit card companies use an Address Verification System. You can use the address you entered when signing up for your Paypal account... or you can enter a different address. Click to add the card. This process will take a few seconds as it actually requests a confirmation of the details from your credit card company. You are now able to add a credit card to your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_editprofile.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_editprofile.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to edit your profile in your Paypal account. You can edit your account information... or your financial information... or selling preferences. In this tutorial, we will edit the phone number. Let's add a new telephone number to the account. Let's go back to see the results. As you can see, the new telephone number has been added. Let's make it the primary Work number. As you can see, it is now the primary telephone number for Work. You are now able to edit your profile in your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_addfunds.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_addfunds.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to add funds to your Paypal account. You can add funds directly from your bank account. Note that will first need to add a bank account to your Paypal account. It generally takes 3-4 days to transfer funds from your bank account. Assuming you already have a confirmed bank account associated with your Paypal account, simply select the account, enter the amount you wish to transfer and click to initiate the transfer process. If, however, you have not yet attached a bank account, you should go ahead and do that now. Enter all your bank account details and click to submit the request. You will find the routing and account information at the bottom of your checks. Paypal will make 2 small deposits to your account. You should see them within a few days. Enter those amounts here in your Paypal account to complete the verification process. You are now able to add funds to your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_withdrawfunds.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_withdrawfunds.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to withdraw funds from your Paypal account. There are several ways you can withdraw funds. Let's take a look at them now. You can transfer funds to your bank account. Note that you must have already added the bank account to your Paypal account via the verification process. You can have Paypal send you a check by ground mail. Once you have applied for and received a Paypal debit card, you can use it to make purchases drawing from your Paypal account funds. You can withdraw funds from any ATM using your Paypal debit card. You can use your Paypal account funds to shop at Paypal shop. Again, remember that you must have already added your bank account to your Paypal account. If you haven't already done so, you should do it now. You now know how to withdraw funds from your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_basic.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_basic.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a basic Buy Now button. Basically, we will be adding a Buy Now button to a page on our web site. Adding a Buy Now button to this page will allow site visitors to place an order via Paypal. Click to create a Buy Now button. Let's get started. Start by entering a name and ID for the item. Note that this is optional. Now enter a price for the item. Specify a currency for the price. Specify if you would like the buyer's payment form to default to a specific country. If not, the buyers will choose for themselves. You can use the default Buy Now button design... or you can click to choose another button. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can use encrypted button code that will prevent it from being altered by others. Keep in mind that if encrypted, you will not be able to generate an email link, and you will be limited by the number of options you can attach to the button. In this example, we will use encrypted code since we want to create a simple web site Buy Now button. As you can see, you have code for your web site button. Let's go ahead and add the code to our web site page. Highlight the code (press Ctrl-A on your keyboard). Now right click and select Copy. Now let's open up our web page in a text editor. Paste the code into the page. Save the file and upload it to your site. Let's take a look at the results on the site. After refreshing the page... we can see that the button has been successfully added to the site. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_addoptions.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_addoptions.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a Buy Now button with additional options. Click to create a Buy Now button. Basically, we will be adding a Buy Now Button to a page on our web site. Adding a Buy Now button to this page will allow site visitors to place an order via Paypal. Let's get started. Start by entering a name and ID for the item. Note that this optional. Now enter a price for the item. Specify a currency for the price. Specify if you would like the buyer's payment form to default to a specific country. If not, the buyers will choose for themselves. You can use the default Buy Now button design... or you can click to choose another button. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can use encrypted button code that will prevent it from being altered by others. Keep in mind that if encrypted, you will not be able to generate an email link, and you will be limited by the number of options you can attach to the button. In this example, we will not use encrypted code since we wish to have full access to all options available. Let's go ahead and add a few options. Decide if you would like to create a drop down menu or text box. After giving the option a name, go ahead and enter all the choices (separated by a line break). If using this Button Factory to generate the code, you are limited to a maximum of 10 choices. Let's add another option. This time we'll make it a text box. Buyers will now be able to enter their own text for this option in the order process. This is the destination URL to which you would like Paypal to send your customers once their payment has been successfully completed. This is the destination URL to which you would like Paypal to send your customers if they wish to cancel their payment. You can provide your buyers with the option to buy more than one of the item or service that you are offering. This will add a Quantity box to the order form. Specify if you require a shipping address. You can optionally provide an additional text area where buyers can add any additional information or instructions to the order. Specify the email address which will receive payment. By default, this will be the primary email address in your profile. When you're done, click to create the button. So you can see, you have code for your web site button as well as code for an email link. Let's go ahead and add the code to our web site page. Highlight the code (press Ctrl-A on the keyboard). Now right click and select Copy. Now let's open up our web page in a text editor. Paste the code into the page. Save the file and upload it to your site. Let's take a look at the results on the site. After refreshing the page... we can see that the button (and options) have been successfully added to the site. Well, that's it! You are able to create a Buy Now button with options in your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_shoppingcart.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_shoppingcart.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a shopping cart Buy Now button. Keep in mind that you need to have a Premier or Business Paypal account in order to use the shopping cart code generator. Basically, we will be adding a shopping cart Buy Now button to a page on our web site that allows the buyer to add an item to the shopping cart and return to the site to do more shopping. Let's get started. Start by entering a name and ID for the item. Note that this is optional. Now enter a price for the item. Specify a currency for the price. Specify if you would like the buyer's payment form to default to a specific country. If not, the buyers will choose for themselves. You can use the default Buy Now button design... or you can click to choose another button. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can now click to create a basic shopping cart button... or you can add some options to the button. You have the option to charge a flat amount for every order. You can also have the option of setting price-specific shipping charges. You can also have the option to set the prices in your global settings. Enter the shipping charges for each price level. You can now use the global shipping charges in your profile. Alternatively, you can click here to specify that you want these shipping charges to override the global settings (if you enter different values above). When you're done, click to save the settings. The shipping charges have been successfully saved. If you need to charge sales tax for specific regions, click here to configure the tax amount and location. You have the option to add optional fields to the page (eg., size, color, etc). Select the button design you wish to use. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can implement a custom payment page to match your website design, or you can use the default Paypal page. This is the destination URL to which you like Paypal to send your customers once their payment has been successfully completed. This is the destination URL to which you would like Paypal to send your customers if they wish to cancel their payment. Specify if you require a shipping address. You can optionally provide an additional text area where buyers can add any additional information or instructions to order. Specify the email address which will receive payment. By default, this will be the primary email address in your profile. When you're done, click to create the button. As you can see, you have code for your web site button as well as code for an View Cart link. Let's go ahead and add the code to our web site page. Highlight the code (press Ctrl-A on your keyboard). Now right click and select Copy. Now let's open up our web page in text editor. Paste the code into the page. Repeat the process for the View Cart button. Save the page and upload it to your site. After refreshing the page... we can see that the Shopping cart buttons have been successfully added to the site. Additional code has been generated for a second item for illustration purposes in this tutorial. Visitors can now add product to the cart and return to your site for more shopping. They simply click to checkout when they are done shopping. You are now able to create a Shopping Cart Buy Now button in Paypal. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_subscription.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_subscription.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a subscription button. Note: You will need to have a Business or Premier account to create a subscription button. Basically, we will be adding a subscription button to a page on our web site where visitors can subscribe to a service with regular automated payments. Let's get started. Start by entering a name and ID for the subscription. Note that this is optional. Specify a currency for the price. Specify if you would like the subscriber's payment form to default to a specific country. If not, the subscribers will choose for themselves. Specify if you would like Paypal to automatically generate usernames and passwords for your subscribers. Note that IPN and some server modifications will be required. You can optionally offer free trial periods to your site visitors. Let's see how to set that up. Enter a 0 to create a free trial period. Specify how long the trial period will last. Skip this section unless you are offering more than one trial period. Enter the amount that the subscriber will pay as a recurring payment. Confirm if this is to be recurring billing, and if so, configure the length of each billing cycle. Specify if this recurring billing is for a specific number of payments, or if it is to run indefinitely. Specify if you would like a reattempt in the event any subscription payment fails. This is generally reattempted after 2-3 days. You can use the default Subscribe button design... or you can click to choose another button. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can use encrypted button code that will prevent it from being altered by others. Keep in mind that if encrypted, you will not be able to generate an email link, and you will be limited by the number of options you can attach to the button. In this example, we will not use encrypted code since we wish to have full access to all options available. Let's go ahead and add a few options. Decide if you would like to create a drop down menu or a text box. After giving the option a name, go ahead and enter all the choices (separated by a line break). If using this Button Factory to generate the code, you are limited to a maximum of 10 choices. Repeat this process if you would like to add another option. Select a design for users to unsubscribe right on your site. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can optionally use a custom payment page to better integrate it seamlessly into your site. This is the destination URL to which you would like Paypal to send your subscribers once their payment has been successfully completed. This is the destination URL to which you would like Paypal to send your subscribers if they wish to cancel their payment. Specify if you require a shipping address. When you're done, click to create the button. As you can see, you have code for web site button as well as code for an email link. Let's go ahead and add the code to our web site page. Highlight the code (press Ctrl-A on your keyboard). Now right click and select Copy. Now let's open up our web page in a text editor. Paste the code into the page. Save the file and upload it to your site. Let's take a look at the results on the site. after refreshing the page... we can see that the button (and options) have been successfully added to the site. Well, That's It! You are now able to create a subscription button with options in your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_donation.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_donation.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a Donation button. Basically, we will be adding a Donation button to a page on our web site. Adding a Donation button to this page will allow site visitors to make a donation via Paypal. Let's get started. Start by entering a donation name and ID for the item. Note that this is optional. You can enter a value here if you are asking for a specific amount. Otherwise, if you leave it blank, your donors will enter their own amount. Specify a currency for the donation. Specify if you would like the donor's payment form to default to a specific country. If not, the donors will choose for themselves. You can use the default Donation button design... or you can click to choose another button. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. You can use encrypted button code that will prevent it from being altered by others. Keep in mind that if encrypted, you will not be able to generate an email link, and you will be limited by the number of options you can attach to the button. In this example, we will not use encrypted code since we wish to have full access to all options available. Let's go ahead and add a few options. This is the destination URL to which you would like PayPal to send your customers once their payment has been successfully completed. This is the destination URL to which you would like PayPal to send your customers if they wish to cancel their payment. This is a donation, so no shipping address is required. You can optionally provide an additional text area where buyers can add any additional information. Specify the email address which will receive payment. by default, this will be the primary email address in your profile. When you're done, click to create the button. As you can see, you have code for your web site donation button as well as code for an email link. Let's go ahead and add the code to our web site page. Highlight the code (press Ctrl-A on your keyboard. Now right click and select Copy. Now let's open up our web page in a text editor. Paste the code into the page. Save the file and upload it to your site. Let's take a look at the results on the site. After refreshing the page... we can see that the donation button has been successfully added to the site. Well, that's it! You are now able to create a donation button in your Paypal account. http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_dw.html http://www.blogadr.com/tutorials/free-paypal-tutorial/paypal_buynow_dw.html Thur, 07 Dec 2006 20:39:29 GMT This tutorial will show you how to create a Buy Now button in Dreamweaver. This is assuming you have already added a Paypal extension to your Dreamweaver application. You can find a number of them at https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/3p-solutions-components-outside. In this example, we will be using the extension developed by WebAssist.com. Click on the Paypal tab in the Objects Panel. Place your cursor in the location where you would like to add a button. Now click to add a Paypal button. You can click to add a Single Item Purchase button... or a Paypal Add To Cart item (you will need a Premier or Business account to do this)... or you can add a View Cart button. In this example, we will add a Single Purchase Item button. Start by entering the email address that is associated with your Paypal account. Select the button design you wish to use. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. Enter a name and item number for the product you are selling (this is optional). Then enter a price. You can provide your buyer with the option to buy more than one of the item or service that you are offering. This will add a Quantity box to the order form. Enter your shipping charges. This is option depending on whether you are shipping hard goods, or whether you are including shipping in your product price. You can also add a Handling charge. Specify if you do NOT want your buyers to provide a shipping address (usually when you sell virtual goods). You can optionally provide an additional text area where buyers can add any additional information or instructions to the order. If you wish to display your logo in the payment pages, enter a URL to the logo here. Note that it will need to be located on a secure page (where you have an SSL Certificate installed). You can enter a destination URL to which you would like PayPal to send your customers once their payment has been successfully completed. You can also enter a destination URL to which you would like PayPal to send your customers if they wish to cancel their payment. Review the details of your button. If all is accurate, click to finish the creation process. As you can see, the button has been added to the page. Let's add a View Cart button to the page as well. Select the button design you wish to use. Alternatively, you can use your own custom image. Simply enter a URL that points to your custom image. After reviewing the details, click to finish. Let's take a look at the results on the site. As you can see, the buttons have been successfully added. You are now able to create Buy Now buttons in Dreamweaver.