how can i make it so people can buy stuff from my site, like through pay pal. And if i'm selling t-shirts is there a way to set up drop shipping
Recieving payments, and drop shipping.
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see i have my own product, which is going to be t-shirts, but i dont know how to set up drop shipping, to make it easier. I do have paypal already.
Dropshipping is when a supplier ships the item for you. If you physically have the product you cannot dropship your own product. What you may be talking about is called fulfillment which at a smaller scale won't be worth it for you until your shipping out 50-100 orders a day (in my experience).
oh ok, so what can i do, i mean, i might get worried about getting stuff lost, and messing up the orders, but what do i do about the payments
Not sure how many orders you will be shipping a day. However, if it's not too much it can be handled pretty well though PayPal. You'll need to make an online account at USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service) and you'll probably want to make one at UPS Global Home as well (better tracking). You set these up with your PayPal account.
When you receive a payment, you'll see a button in your PayPal account that says, "Print Shipping Label", the customers shipping info and everything will already be there. All you're really doing is authorizing the postage or shipping costs and printing the label. USPS and UPS can come to you to pick up the packages.
I've worked as a shipping/receiving clerk for a few different e-commerce companies and know all this very well. If you need more help send me a PM and I can try to help you out. It's not difficult, unless you're processing a high number of orders or don't have time for it yourself.
When you receive a payment, you'll see a button in your PayPal account that says, "Print Shipping Label", the customers shipping info and everything will already be there. All you're really doing is authorizing the postage or shipping costs and printing the label. USPS and UPS can come to you to pick up the packages.
I've worked as a shipping/receiving clerk for a few different e-commerce companies and know all this very well. If you need more help send me a PM and I can try to help you out. It's not difficult, unless you're processing a high number of orders or don't have time for it yourself.
Okay, for people to pay you, you have three basic choices:
1.) PayPal. You can sign up for a PayPal business account, and they have instructions on their page for setting up a payment system on your website. Their express checkout is quite easy to set up, and if your site's shopping cart software supports it, their IPN software will notify you immediately of sales. This is the easiest choice, but it has a drawback -- a lot of customers will bail when they see it's PayPal. They have a full website integration checkout that won't alienate customers as much, but it's harder to set up. Also, in my experience I've lost more to fraud from PayPal customers than I've made in profit from them, so I no longer take PayPal for anything but eBay auctions.
2.) Google Checkout. Pretty similar to PayPal, but I've never used it.
3.) Get a real merchant account. For this, if you need your hand held, talk to your bank. You'll need a business checking account to get this. Alternately, you can set it up yourself -- I recommend National Merchant Bancard if you want something cheap. (see here). Note that "cheap" still means $30/month plus $0.25 + 2.39% per transaction, and you'll need to be using Authorize.net compatible shopping cart software.
1.) PayPal. You can sign up for a PayPal business account, and they have instructions on their page for setting up a payment system on your website. Their express checkout is quite easy to set up, and if your site's shopping cart software supports it, their IPN software will notify you immediately of sales. This is the easiest choice, but it has a drawback -- a lot of customers will bail when they see it's PayPal. They have a full website integration checkout that won't alienate customers as much, but it's harder to set up. Also, in my experience I've lost more to fraud from PayPal customers than I've made in profit from them, so I no longer take PayPal for anything but eBay auctions.
2.) Google Checkout. Pretty similar to PayPal, but I've never used it.
3.) Get a real merchant account. For this, if you need your hand held, talk to your bank. You'll need a business checking account to get this. Alternately, you can set it up yourself -- I recommend National Merchant Bancard if you want something cheap. (see here). Note that "cheap" still means $30/month plus $0.25 + 2.39% per transaction, and you'll need to be using Authorize.net compatible shopping cart software.
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