Hi Greg, I have done it, and Paypal has made it simple enough so anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML (webpage development) should be able to do it, no matter who their webpage hosting service is.
First step is to establish a merchant account with Paypal, then look under "development" to find out how to add a "Paypal" button to your page (with or without a shopping cart). It basically involves copying a block of HTML code they give you and plopping it into the code for your page. Press the button, it sends your credentials to the Paypal server page, they take the money (by credit card, if you want), and put it in your account (minus 2%, and minus cc fees). As for emailing the E-Book, that's a little more involved. Simplest would be to email it manually, when you receive notice of payment. To automate the process, you can configure the Paypal transaction to send a notification of payment and payer back to your server, but you would need to have a script (php, asp, jsp, etc.) on the server to interpret the response and do the mailing, and preferably a database too, to keep customer and transaction records. That would also require the website host to have support for the scripting language and database (php/mysql support is very common at no xtra charge). I'd offer to do it, but i've got a very full plate right now. Should not be a huge expense, if you need to find someone to do it for you. Lots of hungry web developers out there now, so it would behoove you to shop around and drive a bargain. Many developers have done it, so it basically involves pulling code "off-the-shelf" for some. And be sure to do a contract, to firmly scope the work needed, and the schedule, and to insure they will be there to deal with any probs for at least the first few months (withholding a fraction of payment till then helps a lot, tho they won't like that part of the deal). hth, bob At 07:14 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote: >I have a question I was hoping someone here might be able to help me with, > >A friend is selling an E-Book book on-line. But hoping to find a web page >service that can be put on their web page so when someone clicks the link to >buy the book it will take the money via PayPal and either e-mail them the >E-Book or send them a password so they can download it. > >Anyone know how to set that up? Thanks much, > >Greg
