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That's also a good tip. ... View more

Kris (Phoenix),   Yes, it's tough to manually add-up just the shipping costs from your on-=screen view because you have to open up each transaction.   But, Paypal can "dump" a report to your computer, which has separate information for the transaction item(s) as well as the shipping and tax amounts.  This is a simple text file and is called a CSV file format.   What is "suggested" is that you open this file in a spreadsheet program such as Excel and then have the spreadsheet add up the shipping column totals.   The workaround is to open the CSV file in your word processor and then you should be able to see a column of shipping costs and you can then manually add them up (or e-mail the file to somebody who does have Excel spreadsheet....Or you can use the feee online version of Excel at office.live.com, but you'll need to create a login account at Microsoft (easy to do). ... View more

Please outline the specific steps in creating shipping options at checkout. I cannot figure this out! I want the customers to select one of the following choices: 1. Free Shipping 2. Express Shipping 3. Overnight Shipping I don’t want shipping costs to be based on price, quantity, or weight. Just how soon the customer wants the product. Thanks so much!! ... View more

Got to www.irs.gov and download a SS4 form and apply for a tax id number for the non profit.  You do not want to use your own social security numer for this. ... View more

I'd suggest looking into PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN). PayPal IPN allows you to process order information while not having to depend on the buyer to return to your website. You can use IPN by setting up a script which receives the data on your website, and subsequently send an automatic 'Thank you' email to your buyer.   To start using PayPal IPN, include the following extra code along with your button(s): For Website Payments Standard (where "xxxxxxxx" is the full URL to your IPN script):<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="xxxxxxxx"> Or alternatively, navigate to 'Profile' > 'Website payment preferences' and enter a value for the 'IPN URL'. Additionally, you can find sample code, documentation and further information on PayPal IPN at https://www.paypal.com/ipn If you're not a developer, or if you'd rather have someone develop this for you, you can find certified third-party developers at https://www.paypal-portal.com/developer/directory/   ... View more

I'm looking for something less basic, but thanks.   ... View more

When I download/export a CSV file of all transactions, I can see the postal code and country name in the CSV spreadsheet out in columns "AM" and "AN".    I can sort that by postal code and/or country name to generate sales tax and/or non-US VAT tax reports. ... View more