posted on March 28, 2011 05:23:59 AM new
Hoping this can be done but I can't figure it out ... I love how easy it is to set up PayPal as a payment option in my Vendio store. However, I would like to provide customers the option to pay by credit card but I don't have or want a merchant account. Vendio checkout only allows paying with the customer's PayPal account. So I was hoping to be able to use the PayPal "shopping cart" by using the PayPal Buy Now buttons because that would allow them to pay with a credit card if they don't have a PayPal account.
So I set up a test. I added this new option to my payments profile. Made the PayPal button in my PayPal account in Merchant Services, and entered the HTML code using Source Edit in the item description in my store. The Buy Now button shows up. BUT the Vendio "Add to Cart" button still shows up. I can't figure out how to remove Vendio's cart button. If I leave it there, the customer will go through Vendio checkout. They are not taken to a payment screen during checkout! After filling in their name & address, it takes them right to their invoice ... no payment is processed. And the only way the customer will see the Buy Now button is if they are on the individual product page. Everywhere else in the store, they see the Vendio cart button.
So, my very long-winded question is:
Is there any way to remove the Vendio "Add to Cart" button (a) for an individual item and/or (b) for the entire store so that this endeavor will work?
Here's the test area:
http://www.vendio.com/stores/UncommonFinds32086/category/demo-test/catId=3625350 ... it's the last one, "testing PP shopping cart web button".
There is no preformatted way to do this, so making the change would require editing of the storefront's raw HTML code. The content/item.html file is the one you'd likely need to start with.
The main issue to keep in mind however is that your variations do not have their own pages, which means the button your enabling to bypass the Vendio system will not be able to be customized specifically to size (unless you have a button on each items details page for each size, or relay to the buyers that they must leave you a note with the payment details.)
While we may be able to support a PayPal payment method that doesn't require a PayPal account in the future, it's unlikely that we would ever optimize the store to bypass the Vendio checkout.
