I was wondering if anyone here who has built paypal stores can pass on a little knowledge, or could recommend any sites that help with this sort of thing.

I want to setup a website that sells several products, and sell with just paypal. I would like my customers to be able to select multiple items before going to the checkout. Do I need a shopping cart, or will paypal's code do this?

Thanks

You create a "business account", which is free, then go thru the forms and build an item to sell. The html you can copy and paste. I put this into an art gallery and was pretty simple. The cart itself is controlled by paypal, so no need to do much on that end... all you end up with is a button to "buy" the item and the cart contents get added automatically... You can checkout from the cart or view cart from the page (via a button)

Yea I really like the new shopping cart function paypall has.. All you do is type in your info, and hit the submit button.. then place the "add to cart" button under your products image and thats all. Very easy!

I have tried the new paypal shoping cart system. My personal feelings on it is its missing a lot of things like users, and its very hard to manage without somekind of backend system. Now if you built a site and used some kind of database system it could probally be pretty powerful and easy to manage.

It isn't meant to be a full on eCommerce solution, but more of a handy tool to sell items. I put the prints in a database and dynamically build each link to the shopping cart based off the original one, so it was not a lot of work to get it set up.