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EM77

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Member since: 5/14/2008

Creating shopping page

I am using front page and on one page I am offering products and services which will link in with a box to paypal for paying. However there need to be a list of the amount they are ordering and the specific product they are going for in addition to add ons so ideally would need a shopping cart.

Is there a way to do this in Front Page?

Report Abuse | Date: 7/23/2008 6:15:29 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

Posts: 7039
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: USA

RE: Creating shopping page (in reply to EM77)

FrontPage is just a fancy text editor. It won't magically build a shopping cart for you. The PayPal site has cut-and-paste code to help you make "buy me" buttons. You can create a page full of products with images and "buy me" buttons easily enough in FrontPage. The next step would be to do this using a database instead of a whole bunch of individual pages. The step after that would be to purchase a shopping cart with the appropriate security certificates, etc.

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/23/2008 3:58:55 PM

EM77

Posts: 7
Member since: 5/14/2008

RE: Creating shopping page (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)

Thank you

I created shopping buttons using paypal so until the site is up and running I don't see the point in paying for a proper shopping chart accepting card payment.

Anyway, my question is, could I offer a discount code using paypal and if so how would I go about doing that?

Report Abuse | Date: 7/29/2008 3:25:23 AM

Malcolm

Posts: 422
Member since: 9/30/2002
From: Texas,USA

RE: Creating shopping page (in reply to EM77)

Have you tried the PayPal addin for FrontPage .. that will give you a shopping cart where more than one item can be purchased and you can have a "view cart" button etc ... whether you can incorporate a discount code I am not sure, but the addin is free so you could just download and try it
http://www.auctionmessenger.net/paypal/

otherwise go to the paypal forum, they help people do all sorts of fancy things with paypal buttons etc such as selecting product choices and really most of the normal options you would get when purchasing something.

Maybe worth you giving it a go.

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/29/2008 8:53:01 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

Posts: 7039
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: USA

RE: Creating shopping page (in reply to EM77)

On a Microsoft server you could show two different Paypal buttons depending on whether the code matched or not. Maybe something like this:

<%
DIM xdiscountfield, xdiscount_code, issubmitted
xdiscountfield=Request.Form("xdiscountfield")
xdiscount_code="12345"
issubmitted=Request.Form("issubmitted")
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>discount code</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="test.asp" method="post" name="myForm" id="myForm">
enter discount code <input name="xdiscountfield" type="text">
<input name="issubmitted" type="hidden" value="yes">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Pay by Paypal" >
</form>
<% if issubmitted="yes" then%>
<% if xdiscountfield=xdiscount_code then%>
Paypal button with discount
<%else%>
Paypal button without discount
<%end if
end if%>
</body>
</html>

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/29/2008 7:23:13 PM