How do I get a customized Paypal cart (multiple options)?

I'm going to start building PCs for people in my area. I have made the website, but I'm stuck at one part. I'm familiar with and use regularly the Pay...

I’m going to start building PCs for people in my area. I have made the website, but I’m stuck at one part. I’m familiar with and use regularly the Paypal merchant tools, but the shopping cart system seems to be missing an integral feature; the ability to have a single item with multiple options kind of like what you would do when buying from HP or Dell. I mean, where you have the base model and can add or remove components with a drop-down list and only have to click the add to cart/buy it now button once. Does anyone know how to do this?
I don’t have really any experience coding PHP, so something that works out-of-the-box would be best.

Tags: base model, dell, drop down list, hp, integral feature, merchant tools, shopping cart system
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One Response to “How do I get a customized Paypal cart (multiple options)?”

1. just "JR" says:

   August 19, 2010 at 12:14 pm

   Trying to adapt the PayPal cart to your needs is a bit of a nightmare!
   It takes much longuer than writing your OWN cart.
   You end up wiht the whole basket, which you can edit and so on, and a very final price to pay. THEN you go to Paypal with ONE item (the contents of the shopping cart, that the user already has confirmed on YOUR site), for ONE final value.
   You send one form to Paypal, and it return with pass or fail. That’s IT.
   It takes about a day to read the manual of PayPal shopping basket, and several days to install and text it.,
   It takes me an average of 5 hours to write a FULL shopping cart, perfectly adapted to what I need and personalised in every case.

   So, Why don’t you do the same?

   In your case, you approached the idea the wrong way: ONE item with options. It actually is "many items" making one basket!
   Instead of thinking:
   1 PC
   intel CPU: 100$
   coral CPU: 150$
   2GB drive: 120$
   4GB drive: 220$
   Build it:
   intel cpu: 100$
   4GB drive: 220$
   total: 1 item at 320$

   (Same with their Sandbox! It is a nightmare to try to use. And it is not the same as the real transactions! So, fine! I make transactions of 0.01€ until my tests are complete. At least, I know one thing: the transactions are REAL! No big deal!)