If you're only going to have a few products, one of the simplest approaches is PayPal's merchant services.
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Ginger - Oct 27, 2005 3:39:17 pm PDT #5325 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
quester - Oct 27, 2005 4:13:57 pm PDT #5326 of 10003
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
does anyone know how to make an icon? I found some gif's and I'd like to turn one into an icon for my work computer (a G4 Mac).
Stephanie - Oct 28, 2005 2:11:20 am PDT #5327 of 10003
Trust my rage
If you're only going to have a few products, one of the simplest approaches is PayPal's merchant services.
This was my suggestion but everyone else thinks paypal is *too hard* for custimers. I disagree but apparently I'm "net saavy" and therefore not a good judge.
eta: quester, I always use Photoshop, but I don't know if that's the easiest way.
Deena - Oct 28, 2005 2:39:44 am PDT #5328 of 10003
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Stephanie, With any shopping cart program, you're also going to have to have a credit card processor. (ETA: unless you get a shopping cart program that has the processing bundled. I don't know enough to say you can't do that.)
Paypal is a credit card and transfer processor. You can buy shopping cart software, or use Paypal's free shopping cart software, and integrate either with Paypal's payment processors.
Paypal has two programs, one of which sends the buyer to Paypal's website to make the payment and one that processes the payment on your website so they never see Paypal. The cost is $20.00 a month for the second one, plus a fee of ~2.9% per transaction. The information on it is here: [link]
You could start with the first one and then change to the second when you had the orders to support it.
Quester, is there something special about the icon? Are you asking what the size requirements are or where it should be saved or how to make a picture fit the size requirements? Or something else I'm not getting because I don't own a mac?
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2005 2:49:37 am PDT #5329 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I just experimentally did a regular copy on a jpg picture and successfully pasted it into an unimportant file on my Mac by going into the Info dialog box, clicking on the icon picture and pasting. There wasn't anything special about the picture (other than it was my cat) and it was/is much bigger than the standard icon. It scales down, though....
Stephanie - Oct 28, 2005 3:58:40 am PDT #5330 of 10003
Trust my rage
Thank, Deena! I think we are going to try Paypal for the first month, see how it works, and then make a final decision. I actually really like it and thinks it's fairly simple, but on the down side, our product is low-individual-cost, so the $.30 per transaction costs might get to be really expensive. There are other options but they all require a few hundred upfront, which is fine once we know we can cover that with sales.
quester - Oct 28, 2005 4:45:07 am PDT #5331 of 10003
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I just experimentally did a regular copy on a jpg picture and successfully pasted it into an unimportant file on my Mac by going into the Info dialog box, clicking on the icon picture and pasting. There wasn't anything special about the picture (other than it was my cat) and it was/is much bigger than the standard icon. It scales down, though....
I tried this yesterday but all I got was the "this is a giff or jpeg" image instead of the picture itself. I used to be able to do it when I was on OS9, but I just loaded OSX Tiger on the machine and I wondered if there was some new trick involved.
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2005 6:24:46 am PDT #5332 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
on the down side, our product is low-individual-cost, so the $.30 per transaction costs might get to be really expensive.
If you find anything cheaper for low cost items and low volume, please let me know!
thegrommit - Oct 28, 2005 2:00:56 pm PDT #5333 of 10003
Um.
What happens when you sing the Firefly theme to a Tablet PC: [link]
Note: It should be noted that the "unreview" includes this disclaimer:
Editor's note: Keep in mind that this is not your typical hardware review. While the author spent a number of weeks testing and using the ThinkPad X41 and writes honestly about his experiences, there's a lot of commentary on the ThinkPad X41, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, hardware design, bad software, and rapidly blinking hard drive activity indicators. Keep that in mind as you read the unreview in the spirit with which it was written.
billytea - Oct 29, 2005 12:36:09 am PDT #5334 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hey, can anyone help me with a computer problem I'm having? Starting yesterday, I can no longer get at my Yahoo email account. When I enter my user name and password, it takes me straight to the "The page cannot be displayed" page. (This also happens if I enter the wrong password.) I'm thinking it may have something to do with cookies, or security settings somewhere. I can't access my bank account details either, I get the same result when I try to access the sign-in pop-up.