Look for our new and improved PayPal management tool!
There are lots of great new things in the pipeline at Homestead. Here’s product designer Rina to tell you about our new tools to help you manage your PayPal sales - Rochelle.
If you sell things on your website using PayPal buttons you may have already noticed this, but we’ve just implemented new tools for you to use in managing your PayPal activity. The new tools don’t change the way your PayPal buttons function; they provide a new and improved way for you to add products and manage your transactions.
If you’re a Gold or Platinum member, when you log in to your website account you’ll see a new link in the menu on the left side of your website account. This link is called Selling Online, and you’ll now find all ecommerce tools and products (including PayPal button management) organized within it.
Underneath Selling Online you’ll find a link called Store Manager. Clicking that link opens the new Store Manager page. It contains the same functionality as the old PayPal page - it gives you instructions on how to get started with PayPal, a place to enter your PayPal email address, and links to the PayPal site itself. The new layout of this page makes this information easier to read and understand.
The Store Manager page also has a link that says Launch Product Manager:
Clicking that link will take you to the brand new PayPal Product Manager page:
This new Product Manager is organized into two columns, making it easier for you to look at your products. Using it is simple. To add a new product, click the Add new link in the left column and a form will appear to let you add your new product information. Click the Save button when you’re done.
Your product will now show up in the left column where existing products are listed. As you add more products, each will appear there organized alphabetically.
To edit a product, click on the product name in the left column and you’ll be able to edit its information in the right column. To delete a product, just click the Delete this product link at the bottom of the form.
We think you’ll find the new Store Manager and Product Manager make it much easier to use PayPal buttons on your site. Nothing’s changed about how those buttons work for your customers, or how you can place them on your site using SiteBuilder, but now you have an easy way to manage them!
December 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Thanks Rochelle-Looks great!
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December 19, 2007 at 7:00 am
What are you offering for options on setting up the shipping and handling costs for the Paypal account? On my catalog page I would like to be able to have customers select the quantity first, then the shipping preference, and finally have the Add to Cart button last!
The way I have had to set it up now, leaves me at times with people clicking on the Add to Cart button first, because it appears first on the page, with no money sent for shipping and handling.
What are your options for the site builder now for shipping and handling?
December 22, 2007 at 12:03 am
I believe you can actually set a shipping rate table (and sales tax) by logging in to your PayPal account. You can mention this fee on your site and then when the customer adds the product to their cart, they’ll just see the product purchase price. When they go through the checkout process, the shipping and tax will be added in if you have the rates set up through PayPal.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it works…
December 29, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Addie,
You can use the paypal shipping info like Angel wrote about, but another option that has worked great for me is AuctionInc. It’s an online shopping cart that works with paypal and figures the actual shipping/handling for each item sold. I use to loose money on the shipping for pretty much every sale I made because the way paypal’s shipping program is set up, your either charging a flat rate no matter where they live in the country or a percentage, which still doesn’t give you an accurate shipping rate. I’ve been using AuctionInc for at least 7 months and it’s saved me a bundle in shipping. It also gives you the option of adding fee’s to the shipping that you’ll incur from paypal as well as any type of handling fee you want to add. And it doesn’t cost a fortune like all other shopping carts I checked on. It’s only $19.99 every 3 months. You can also add international shipping for $4.95 a month. If your interested, visit http://www.auctioninc.com/info/index for more info or visit my site (here’s a page with lots of shopping cart links) http://www.karenskottage.org/cattents5.html as an example of how it works.. You can also make your cart look like you want it to look and offer shipping through all the major shippers..
I’ve been nothing but pleased with it..
Just thought I’d pass this info along in case you were interested in added a shopping cart… I found this by accident and boy am I glad I did!
Have a great day,
Karen
http://www.karenskottage.org