Web site will be selling memberships and guest passes for a swimming pool. Two questions about PayPal Payments Standard:
1) I'm "selling" three different items, but there really is no quantity for any of them. You either pay for one membership or none. Is there a way to not allow a user to purchase (by clicking the add to cart button) multiple quantities of a given item?
2) Each of these items is in its own form tag, so I have 3 forms on my purchase page. Is there a way to condense these 3 forms into 1 to make things hypothetically simpler?
Thanks
1). Refer to https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/Can-you-remove-the-quantity-field-from-the-shopping-cart/td-p/652565 , there are some solutions.
2) You can combine these 3 forms into 1, but I believe you need to write some script to implement it or you can use dropdown option which buyer can choose item.
Hope these could be helpful.
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I am trying to understand Kentico and need one help. I have one product (or service) with fixed price. This is what I want: Customer browse home page => click buy button => they will be redirected to form to fill more details (ex:personal detail like name, age, email) => redirect to payment page => Then to PayPal on click of Pay now. Once customer paid, they will be given access to browse different page.
What is best solution for Payment logic here. Do I need to consider any e-commerce feature of Kentico or ignore e-commerce and go with PayPal Buy button is the best? I am also thinking how to keep track of the payment detail if I use PayPay buy button.
PayPal is the only allowed payment type.
Please let me know if you have any inputs.
Thanks,
Sharath
IMHO you will spend more time and effort attempting to setup that checkout process that you want vs. setting yo the e-commerce solution within Kentico. You can install the Dancing Goat e-commerce site and essentially copy all of the checkout process they have there and get what you're looking for simply by configuring the solution.
It sounds like e-commerce membership is what you're after to me; it allows you to restrict access to various pieces of content on your site to paid-up 'members' only. e-products might work, but I think from your description that membership us what you're after.
There are some fairly straightforward steps to setting this up:
Create the content on your site that will be for 'members'
Create a role that will be used to control access to your content
Create a membership group
Create a new product representing your membership
As Brenden says, you can save a lot of time using the dancing goat checkout if you're new to Kentico.
Also, check out configuring PayPal in Kentico. I've not used it for a while personally, but it is built-in.
I have a website with 200 items listed on a separate landing pages. I want to provide BuyNow button for all these 200 items. I do not want to create a individual "BuyNow" button. Instead, when user clicks on any of these BuyNow button it should only pass item name & item value & complete the transaction. How to do it?
Since website will grow to more than 1000 items, it will not be feasible to create separate buy now button for each item via paypal account. I need to create only One Single "BuyNow" button which I can copy on each page and depending upon item listed on the page, it should show item name & item value so that user can proceed for checkout. Its similar like Fiverr. Appreciate anyhelp in this regard.
This is possible but not practical. Buy Now button is intend for checking out only ONE individual item.
If your website will grow until 1000 items, it is recommended that you look at other kind of solutions, which involves programming knowledge. We have vast amount of options, one of the popular integration is using our PayPal Classic API.
To get started and explore, check out https://developer.paypal.com/
Pretty new to Paypal. Been using the Buy Now button on an association website, works fine for single priced items.
However, now the client wants a discount function set up. I think the logic is simple, but for the life of me, I don't understand the docs or how to get it to work properly.
Here's the setup. A golf outing, where someone can register themselves and up to three other players (a foursome). For each golfer, price is the same $125.00. However, if all four register at the same time (using one form), they would receive a $50 discount (12.50 per person or 10% off).
I've been able to figure out how to pass a quantity to paypal using a hidden form field. But I don't understand how Paypal's discounting works. I'm able to run logic prior to handing off to paypal which will check if there are 4 golfers, and calculate the reduced price (which would be 112.50 per golfer).
When I create a Buy Now button, I've added the list price (125.00) in the item price field on Paypal's form (and I've also attempted to leave the field blank). I've also tried adding advanced variables in PP's build a button form, such as discounts and quantity, but these won't work either.
I'd be satisfied with using hidden form fields. I really don't want to resort to creating another button with a different price structure that would be conditionally called if the 4 golfer discount is reached.
Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?
TIA, Mark
Are you using the hosted buttons created through a PayPal account? You can't modify the item details with a hosted button but if you uncheck the option in "Step 2: Track inventory, profit & loss" called "Save button at PayPal" you can get the full HTML code to change as you see fit. You'll also need to click the "Remove code protection link" to remove the encryption.
What discount variable are you trying to pass? There is "discount_rate" that takes off a specific percentage of an order.
You could also try using a drop-down menu with price option through a Buy Now button. You can have four options where the first three are for the one, two, and three players at the correct price for each and then have the fourth option be for the discounted amount for four players.
With Buy Now buttons, by default, a buyer can't change the quantity so if you have option two be for two players at $250.00.
I have a very specific registration form that I need to build that collects an event attendees information and then sends that info plus payment to a Paypal business account. My client has given me the breakdown of how he wants the form to work and it goes something like this:
Registration Options: A) Single person/participant: cost $150.00 B)
Family group/ 2 or more participants: $300 total for the first two
each additional is $75. C) School group: For every six participants
paid at $150 each the 7th will be free
Select registration package: Number of Participants: Total cost for
participation:
This seems like a tough task even with Paypal's button building feature.
Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I might tackle this form? Possibly through a php form that will auto total based on fields filled in by the attendee?
There are a few different ways that you can do this. You could use some JavaScript or PHP to collect the data and perform the calculations. There are a few example of some basic scripts collecting data and performing calculations here that may help, or give you an idea of how you would go about doing this. The examples are free to use as is. There are several others that may help as well, under the basic scripts menu. Some are Java Script, others are in PHP. You can just right click the page and view the code for the JavaScript, and for the ones that are in PHP, there should be a link for the PHP code.
How can we send a email to the user reminding them that some products are available in their wishlist?
I have seen this functionality on many sites and I wish someone would have Implemented it by now.
There should be a way to Do this program way.
Also There is no way available in magento to see wishlist report,like which item is most available in wishlist or top 5 wishlist products.Is there a way to Implement Both the things
Thanks in advance
Unfortunately there is no out of the box solution for both of your issues.
There does exist a $14.99 module that will give you more insight on wishlisted items and the relative customers: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/admin-global-customer-wishlist-viewer.html
As for sending emails to those customers, this type of functionality exists in Magento Enterprise Edition. You have the ability to automatically send emails to customers with wishlisted items - unless you are willing to shell out $15,000 for the enterprise version, you are a bit out of luck here.
You can either utilize a email blast service like MailChimp which integrates directly into magento to send focused email blasts OR do some custom development work.
You can do this with MageMail. (Full disclosure: I'm the founder of MageMail).
In case you're looking to build this custom, you basically just want to pull in the wishlist_item table and join on the customer table to get the customer associated with the wishlist item.
One gotcha to keep in mind is that all of the wishlist items are included in the same wishlist, regardless of when they were added (they're not like quotes in that regard). So if you're building this custom, you'll want to make sure to build it in such a way that it will follow-up based on the date the wishlist item was added and not the date of the wishlist record itself.
I think that Enterprise has support for multiple wishlists but I haven't seen it in use much in the wild.
I think you can do exactly what you need the following way:
1. Segment your customers according to their wishlist records with Market Segmentation Suite extension. You can put users with particular wishlist item into a group or form a customer group of all users with non-empty wishlists. You can then export those segmented lists for future use.
2. Follow up your customers according to segmented lists you made with emails tailored to specific customer groups with Follow Up Email.
As for wishlist reports you can track which products have been added to customers’ wishlists, when the product has been added, how many days this item is in the wishlist with Advanced reports unit named Users Wishlists by aheadWorks.
So, these are 3 different extensions, but they definitely cope with the task you describe.