Hi all, I have been asked to design a simple website for a client and to incorporate a page where customers can purchase his product.

There will just be one product avaiable at one set price.

Can anyone suggest the easiest and cheapest way to do this...?

I will be creating the site in Dreamweaver and would like the shopping page to look as similar to the other pages as possible.

 

Many thanks

Hi all, I have been asked to design a simple website for a client and to incorporate a page where customers can purchase his product.

There will just be one product avaiable at one set price.

Can anyone suggest the easiest and cheapest way to do this...?

I will be creating the site in Dreamweaver and would like the shopping page to look as similar to the other pages as possible.

 

Many thanks

 

So many ways to do it, but yet most of them are expensive. What i mean by that is the payment method. If you were just to put a phone number on and then ring to order thats your cheapest bet. The next being paypal which, to be frank is either robbing your client as i see as there commission in my eyes is too much, and also your clients potential clients must have a paypal account which they might not have, and also may not know how nor want to sign up for.

The next being accepting cards, which requires Secure Socket Layers, which are at a cost, and also if your not familiar with sending https header requests (which i am not) securely, then you must use such as protx or worldpay, which cost £20 per month if you not making more than 1000 transactions per quarterly or 10p per transaction if you are.

and also your clients potential clients must have a paypal account which they might not have, and also may not know how nor want to sign up for.

 

Not necessarily, if you add the paypal buy it now button the client can choose to login to their Paypal account OR if they dont have one can pay using any of the accepted credit or debit cards without signing up to paypal atall

Not necessarily, if you add the paypal buy it now button the client can choose to login to their Paypal account OR if they dont have one can pay using any of the accepted credit or debit cards without signing up to paypal atall

 

Yeh I thought that was the case aswell. You can chose to log in and use a registered card or just bang in your card details on the spot.

 

So to sell one product, you wouldn't need to go mad on expenses. Here is a video I found regarding accepting online payments: http://www.paypal.com/en_GB/m/paypal_standard_v4.htm

 

Hope it's useful!

 

Darren

Thanks guys.

Do you know if I can modify the look of the paypal pages to make it similar to my site?

Thanks guys.

Do you know if I can modify the look of the paypal pages to make it similar to my site?

 

I think you are limited on the way you make the paypal page looks I know you can modify the header of the page and re-direct them back to your site when they complete the transaction.

 

Pat

The way it usually works is you will set up the transaction via paypal then add a button to your site. When the user clicks this button they will be completely redirected away from your site to PayPals secure site to make the payment then re-directed back to your site.

 

You can't completely modify PayPals appearance as I'm aware of but as Pat mentioned, I'm sure you can add your own header.

 

Darren

Yup, as darren says log into your paypal account and find the option to create your own button, you can even add dropdowns for shipping options and other product options. then paypal do the rest , they give you the code for the button and you slot it into the site.

A very fast and simple and really powerful tool if there are very few products , which wont change often.

 

As for customising the payment page , at this level of integration i dont know how vast the customising options are as i never bothered, but i would imagine they will be basic at best (header / footer)