: In a simple Paypal web store, how can you add multiple items to the cart with one page load? I use the Paypal "Website Payments Standard" system on my website - I believe this is their term

@Margaret670

Posted in: #Payments #Paypal #ShoppingCart

I use the Paypal "Website Payments Standard" system on my website - I believe this is their term for the simple style of "Add to cart" button that you can set up under Merchant tools in your Paypal profile. The way it works is that you set up the button's price, name and shipping details in Paypal's interface, then you paste it into your page. It is safest to have them host the button's price data, because then the user cannot edit the price to be lower.

This is easy enough, but in my small-ish web store of 10 items, I feel that I am losing opportunities to sell more stuff due to the fact adding each item means 1. Clicking "add to cart" for that item 2. Reviewing the cart on the Paypal page that loads 3. clicking "Continue Shopping". It's messy and ugly.

What I wanted to know is if there's a way around this clunky method that sticks with the Paypal-hosted buttons system, and doesn't introduce an alternate pre-Paypal shopping cart to confuse things and upset customers. I imagine being able to replace the "add to cart" button with "Added to cart!" once clicked, while in the background Paypal is informed that the button was clicked.
www.simplecartjs.com/ is an example of a system that lets you add multiple things to a cart before submitting, but it does it with a GET string that'd be very easy to manipulate. The buttons aren't hosted on Paypal, in other words. It also has a duplicated cart that I think might get confusing for people (though that's not a dealbreaker, and could be worked around.)

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