Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> I use paypal too, but not their shopping cart. I manage the shopping
> cart, calculate per-item prices (varies between $ and Euro, with and
> without VAT), and I add a shipping/handling fee (based on destination,
> but otherwise fixed). Then I submit the total to paypal for handling
> their stuff.

You can do all this from javascript running on the client?  I didn't know it
can track state as the user moves between pages.  I don't know javascript
but would be willing to learn.  I assume it's just another programming
language, right?

Why do you do the monetary conversion yourself?  This is one thing PayPal
seems to be good at.  I specify prices in US dollars and they convert
everything as needed.  I'd prefer not to change that unless there is a good
reason to do so.

Would you be interested in consulting to set up a small sample site for me,
with documentation so that I can make incremental changes from there?

> Probably more complicated than what you do, but I am no web
> guru.

All I do is what it said in the PayPal shopping cart manual.  I didn't even
know it was possible to add my own layer like that.  Do you use a regular
web hosting service or do you run your own web server or run critical parts
of the site on your own server?


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