Shopping Cart

[iart]

I knew it looked too easy and I was doing so well for someone who can barely turn on a computer.

I want a paypal shopping cart. I sell books. Each item is unique. I want people to buy many DIFFERENT books but the shopping card continually lets me click more than a quanity of 1. I cannot sell the same book to two people. I need the shopping button to vanish once the book is sold. I don't want people to be able to change the quantity when they view their shpping cart. The quanity is always ONE.

I tried setting the quantity at one, but paypal still lets me manipulate the quantity at the shopping cart.

This shouldn't be that hard, should it?

[skier]

The function of PayPal's Website Payments Standard Shopping Cart is actually working as designed.   You will always have the option to change the quantity on the PayPal Screens as there are no built in options or features to change this behavior.

In order to do what you have in mind requires a different approach.  PayPal has a coding feature called the "upload" method.  This coding feature is normally used by many 3rd party shopping carts and most custom developed mini-cart applications.  Using this method, all the logic is performed and managed on your web page or site first, then only the end results are uploaded to PayPal for Checkout.  Once the infomation is displayed on the PayPal Screens, you can cannot change the quantity or price.

You can find tips and working examples here concerning use of the "upload" method.  Note, there are specific item button code variables used in this method as this is how PayPal's system is aware of the type of data you are sending and how it should be displayed on the PayPal Screens.

Regards,

skier