Paypal...Payment etc...

[Lee]

Hi Kris - thanks for the info - so how or where do I get hold of a free shopping cart please?

If I use the free business or premier one, it is still possible to take payment on your own site with the free cart without paying paypal fees?

Thanks!

[kris_hm]

Unfortunately you will always pay paypal fees per transaction (not much - up to 3.4% + £0.20 GBP per transaction).
In 'paypal' case shopping cart is only a part of your website design (what customers can see) but all transactions are still processed by paypal on their secure servers.
Then you've got few options:
1.You can use their free solution which is working fine but doesn't look too good, as every time customer will click 'add to cart' or 'view cart' button, will be re-directed to paypal site (kind of virtual cart created in real time for current transaction purposes). Like I said, it will work fine and many shops using it as it's easy and free.
2.You can use paypal shopping cart which looks good and everything is 'happening' on your website directly but you will have to pay monthly fee (regardless your transactions).
3. You can use paypal together with shopping cart developed by third party. It can be free or paid. On my website I'm using free cart from www.fatfreecart.com .This is an option somewhere between 1 and 2 and as long as customer adding more products ect., he will see this nice 'fat free' popping up cart. But once decided to pay, will be redirected to paypal website to finish transaction.

Hope you know what i mean
I'm not saying that my solution is the best couse it's not. The best is to pay and get professional and good secured cart from paypal (or other). But as for now I'm not making money on my website, this is the best for me, looks smart and it's easy to use (if you know basics of html, to copy a piece of code in right place)

If you would decide to use option 1 or fatfree cart, I can explain how

[Lee]

Thanks Kris - looks superb - I definately like the idea of a simple, free but professional look and feel! I'll check out the site you mentioned and will no doubt be back to pick your brains again!!!!!

I think your site is superb btw, it looks modern, funky and professional...... Im surprised your not getting anything from it yet...but I bet it's only a matter of time!

[kris_hm]

Thank you
My site is online only few days so didn't promote it yet.
Let me know if you need any help

[GoldRapt]

Hi Kris, can you do a tutorial anyway please, sounds worth reading if you do. thanks

[Kaz]

TPM

You can have the best looking site on the internet, and still not get any sales. It's all down to meta tags and how you use them, ,and also about promoting your site aswell.

[John G]

As Kaz mentioned, only way to get on the first page of an internet search is to work hard on the SEO.

[Lee]

O-eck! More reading! Meta-tags!

I can feel more posts coming this way!!!!!!

[kris_hm]

GoldRapt - I will do a basic tut, no probs

Yes, Kaz is right about SEO and marketing. Though they are two different ways to reach the same target.
And good SEO is a full time, never ending job if you want to keep your website on first page
just googled phrase 't-shirts' - "About 538,000,000 results (0.09 seconds)" - and you try to pull your website to first 20, lol

[smitch6]

yep my chat room has been really active for 2 yrs now and we managed to get on page 2
a month later we are now on page 3 :~ really annoying
because we are prob in the top 5 of busiest sites in that field