How do you sell products using paypal and dropshipping?

[Maple Leaf]

So far I've heard you have to have a payment gateway, a payment processor, a shopping cart system, a merchant account to sell your physical products via dropshipping.

I know how to create a paypal button. The question is, how do you link the payment processor and shopping cart system together?

[Noah Thompson]

There is this pay pal thing that you can plug into you're phone and BOOM

[thunderingpancake917]

Dropshipping where you advertise on behalf of someone else and then they are supposed to send whatever you advertised and then you recieve the payment, you take a cut and then send the rest on to the person you are working with.

But I advise not to do it, if someone doesn't get an item, the crap falls on you, not the other person. So many accounts are deleted because of dropshipping.

You don't need a payment gateway or a payment processor unless you are planning to apply for a paypal business account, otherwise just open a paypal account and you can receive payments which can then be withdrawn to your bank account - but don't do the dropshipping, mkay.

[Jake]

I don't know that paypal is suitable for fully automated purchase generation with various product prices.

A merchant account through a bank requires a company with a credit rating, there are other payment processing services that are easier to qualify for, some services accept payment off of your site or with their checkout form in a frame on your site. You might also need an SSL certified domain to have an encrypted https: data entry page. Some ecommerce hosts provide integrated shopping cart software and payment processing making it easier to get started.

[mark n]

If you're using a CMS like Drupal, Wordpress or Joomla, there should be numerous themes and plugins that let you create Paypal buttons for an ecommerce site. It is usually a standard component of your shopping cart system.