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Create PayPal Payment Button for The Post Author Automatically

I received the following question from a user today: When users create a charity on my site, I want to have a donate button on their post that automatically gets the proper email address to use for the PayPal transaction. This way I don't have to manually add their email to the shortcode for … [Read more...] about Create PayPal Payment Button for The Post Author Automatically

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How to Setup Regional Sales Tax in Your PayPal Account

When running a web store and using PayPal as the payment processor, you can easily set it up so that PayPal will add the sales tax to the final amount (and optionally to the shipping amount as well) during checkout. In a standard (perhaps traditional) PayPal transaction, the buyer will choose … [Read more...] about How to Setup Regional Sales Tax in Your PayPal Account

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How to Create a Paypal Page Style and Use it With a PayPal Button

In this article I am going to walk through the process of creating a custom checkout flow for your PayPal customers. I'll explain how to use it with your PayPal buttons and then at the end I will show you how to add your new custom style for use in WP eStore. The following screenshot is an … [Read more...] about How to Create a Paypal Page Style and Use it With a PayPal Button

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How to Setup PayPal Profile Based Shipping

If you are selling via PayPal then you can setup shipping charge rules in your PayPal profile. In this tutorial I will show you how to setup PayPal profile based shipping. The process is completely different depending on the country that you are selling from. As you might imagine, PayPal sellers … [Read more...] about How to Setup PayPal Profile Based Shipping

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WP Donations Plugin – Create a Donation Widget with Donation Goal

The WordPress Donations Plugin allows you to collect donation for a cause from your WordPress powered site. The main difference with this donation plugin from our other PayPal donation plugin is that this one shows the visitor your Donation Goal and how much you have raised so far. It creates a nice … [Read more...] about WP Donations Plugin – Create a Donation Widget with Donation Goal

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Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox

Hello, is this thing on?  Many of us who have, or are in the process of launching, e-commerce sites have wondered about this at one time or another.  The most common way of finding out is to make a test purchase of $1 or less, to see if everything works.  At about 35 cents a try (in PayPal fees), … [Read more...] about Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox

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How to Make a PayPal Mass Payment

If you frequently make PayPal payments to multiple recipients (e.g. to payout for affiliate commission) and if you don't use the PayPal's mass payment option then this article is for you. Now, my first question to you is "Why aren't you using mass payment again?" :) PayPal's mass payment allows … [Read more...] about How to Make a PayPal Mass Payment

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Shop Admin Tips – Protect Yourself from Unfair Refund Claims

If you sell stuff online especially digital product(s) then chances are that at some point down the path you will face some fraudulent customers who will try to rip you off. I sell many products online (some from my Tips and Tricks site and some from my other web sites). I have seen many of these … [Read more...] about Shop Admin Tips – Protect Yourself from Unfair Refund Claims