I need a programmer to help get Paypal working
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Creativei
Joined: 2008-03-16
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Posted: Sun, 2008-05-11 06:51
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I am trying to switch my site to Gallery 2 - I have it installed and set up the way I want it and have added paypal. What I need is for someone to set paypal up so that it works.. I need for people to be able to purchase and then to return for their downloaded item. My gallery is at www.creative-international.com/galleries - I dont want to add much of my art until this is fixed. I have added paypal to other sites with no issues but this seems to have me confused. If someone could offer their services for a reasonable price it would be greatly appreciated!! |
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you could do worse than look at the checkout series of modules, http://gallery.menalto.com/node/74849 which integrates well with Paypal and allows the purchase of downloads. If you want to pay someone to install it, I volunteer, but it's not difficult to do yourself.
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Since you have already installed pp, it might be good to know exactly what mods you installed and exactly what doesn't work.
I am very conservative when it comes to money and commercial sites. Judging from this line
in the very latest beta announcement (0.3.3) of the checkout module(s), one of your particular needs might be unreliable which would frustrate you and your site visitors.
I have found the general reliability of G2 and associated code to be very strong. I just don't know if this mod is strong enough yet for prime-time.
If you decide to go ahead anyway, I would like the opportunity to bid.
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Not to trample on your marketing effort here, but I don't know of any existing instabilities, and I take many thousands of ££ per year through checkout. I strongly suggest you explore the free options before spending money on custom coding which won't have thousands of users helping to make sure it's reliable.
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So sorry - I was going by the original poster's list of requirements and the module author's documentation.
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No indeed - my mistake entirely. Although I still don't see any actual requirements in the original post against which checkout can be matched and/or dismissed, nor is there any documentation about checkout 0.3.3 - which is a deficiency I hope to see rectified soon.
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Not a lot of doc - I was reading the thread in which the progressive announcements of releases is (http://gallery.menalto.com/node/74849). I looks like the module is good stuff but we all just need to be careful about pushing
I agree with you - the requirements are not very explicit.
I try to respond to many threads in this sub-forum and nearly always my response is a request for essentially the same info as the problem reporting requirements. There is a helpful bit of instruction on how to report a possible problem - maybe that should be reproduced here. G2 makes much of it easy with the sys info item in the admin screens.
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I would never push someone to use a module they didn't want to, but I'd prefer negative comments about checkout's stability to come from people who've actually tried it (and to be sufficiently detailed for me to work on whatever the might) rather than from bystanders who don't use the module and who read rather too much into a throwaway comment of mine.
I am also very conservative when it comes to beta software and my customer's money. So you can take it as a good sign that I run the latest version of the checkout code, and that it performs well.
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It is not that it does not work-it may in fact work fine- I just can not get paypal sandbox to work to be able to check it out- the other problem I have is that I am not sure I understand how the pricing works. If you have several items that have different prices how do you configure this? I do not seem to be able to get my head around the pricing bit- I finally decided to just price things per album- for example if it comes from album A it has one price etc- I have built many websites but have never used Gallery- I love the program-and I love the simplicity of maintenance- I just can not seem to get the paypal thingy worked out- perhaps it is the blonde hair....