Post: #1

Hello everyone, I'm in need of help. I am trying to add e-commerce to my website regarding a service that is provided. Since I've never tried this before, I'm at a loss and with time constraint.

I have considered using Paypal and it seems good enough. But what I can't seem to manage to achieve with Paypal is the following:

1. I need to display a button where the user proceed to the payment, this is easy. The catch is, the Paypal page needs to display the amount to be charged, which is calculated in my website and its not constant. How can I achieve this with Paypal?
2. My website needs to recgonize somehow, that the Paypal transaction has been successfully completed. I don't know if there is some sort of return flag from Paypal to indicate this. The reason for this is because I need this indicator to start another transaction to another party, this should be an automated process.
   

If anyone here has an idea of what I am talking about please chime in. I would hugely appreciate this.

Post: #2

Are you using a turnkey site?
Wordpress theme?

Cause if you're doing this by hand....well don't know what to tell you.

WIA

Post: #3

No wordpress. My site is just hosted on HostGator servers. I have coded all my site's functionality and it works the way I want to. Its just this final step I really don't know how to implement the way I need it to be.

I took a look at ZenCart and Magento but they don't seem to do what I'm looking for, but I might be wrong.

I'm desperate.

Post: #4

(11-07-2012 08:42 PM)FretDancer Wrote:  No wordpress. My site is just hosted on HostGator servers. I have coded all my site's functionality and it works the way I want to. Its just this final step I really don't know how to implement the way I need it to be.

I took a look at ZenCart and Magento but they don't seem to do what I'm looking for, but I might be wrong.

I'm desperate.

Can't be much help I'm afraid, but there are a grip of shopping cart software packages out there.

Post: #5

You coded the website yourself? :-|

Sounds like you need some kind of dynamic checkout page.

If you want to PM me your website I can probably help.

Post: #6

A site with this kind of functionality should be built onto a CMS (Magento, WP, etc).