Good day, LarryG-SIA. I couldn't agree with you more, regarding some of your observations. Deprecating the "Add to cart" buttons in favor of requiring coding is going to leave a lot of people behind - and it is going to cost PayPal a lot of money, as all of these folks may have to find other payment solutions. I have found some work-arounds myself to keep things going, but I am looking for an entirely new solution - with no success yet. I've been a website developer for 20+ years. I have about 130 clients. I know HTML and css, and just a bit of php. I may know more about the deprecated PayPal buttons then some of the people who answer the phone there too. (I have never had much luck when I've called them with technical questions). I have a little MySQL experience too. But I haven't done any programming since college. I'm looking at replacing the deprecated PayPal buttons (and shopping carts) on approximately 30 sites. These customers are not going to want to be told that they need a new website. They will want me to replace the payment buttons and shopping cart functionality with something else, on their existing websites, and that's what I would prefer to do too. I've tried watching Raul's video a couple of times, also. He seems to be an affable and knowledgeable fellow, but a few minutes in, I have no idea what he is talking about. The folks at PayPal are basically dumping me and all of my customers. For the time being, I'm still using the deprecated buttons, but I am concerned that one day they will all stop working, with no notice, and I'll have thirty clients calling me at once. I need a new solution in place before that happens. I have looked at many shopping cart solutions. It's easy to find one shot "buy Now" functionality, but not something that allows a customer to "add to cart" and then "continue shopping", followed eventually by "view cart". Your post is a couple of months old. I'd love to know if you have found a solution (or if anyone else has...). I prefer NOT to go to WordPress, or migrate everyone to an entire "on-line store" platform. I just want something simple that works like what we've had for 20+ years. Thank you!
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