Is it possible to combine a subscription in a shopping cart, i have searched their site and find nothing about it

thanks

Integrate paypal to work with a shopping cart? Like on the order form? Is that what you mean?

Originally posted by ebo
Integrate paypal to work with a shopping cart? Like on the order form? Is that what you mean?


ok, on our site we sell products in addition to hosting, the products side uses the paypal shopping cart however we want to use subscriptions for the hosting.

I want to know if you can have subscriptions and their shopping cart

TIA

Hi George-

Yes, to best of my knowledge, you can have subscriptions for your hosting and a shopping cart to sell items at the same time. One should not interfere with the other. We do not sell items, but I have played around with the Paypal system a good bit.

When setting up the hosting links, just choose "recurring" billing. When setting up your cart, your items will not be recurring, if you do not choose that option.

Originally posted by Lamar
Hi George-

Yes, to best of my knowledge, you can have subscriptions for your hosting and a shopping cart to sell items at the same time. One should not interfere with the other. We do not sell items, but I have played around with the Paypal system a good bit.

When setting up the hosting links, just choose "recurring" billing. When setting up your cart, your items will not be recurring, if you do not choose that option.


Thanks Lamar

Not clear on this myself :)

Is it possible to use the PayPal cart AND subscriptions WITHIN the cart?

Anyone? I asked PP twice - never got an answer.

Hmmm....."Within" puts a different twist on it. I'm not so sure about that.

If it were possible to commit crimes against good taste, the paypal shopping cart would be in the 10 most wanted. By default, paypal provides all of it's users with a default shopping cart. It does not support subscriptions. Heck, it barely supports any kind of money transfer. Luckily, the paypal service is tag based, which means that you can call a paypal transaction from almost anywhere on the web.

I'm actually in the proccess of writing a paypal shopping cart (based on ASP/VBscript and Access, may also design one for an MsSQL or MySQL on the backend) for subscriptions if anyone is interested. And I'd be happy to trade a copy for a link (to one of my non hosting related sites of course). I should be finished debugging it sometime in April.

Just use Subscriptions and SHopping carts together it works fine. But you can't put Subscriptions inside a shopping cart.

What you're actually talking about is two different systems.
A shopping cart, and a subscription management system. It's not hard to integrate the two of them together, essentially "putting subcriptions in a shopping cart" as the last poster called it. Like I said, it's not hard to do. With the right mods, you could probably put a subscription management system into almost any shopping cart... except of course the shopping cart built into paypal, which they really worked hard to make as close to useless as possible.

I wanted to again thank everyone for their input