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I don't know how this could get any more simple. But I haven't found a good solution.

I am part of a site, there are three owners, all in different parts of the world. We each sell a different product. For this reason we cannot do a cart system because of the multi-vendor aspect of it. It makes things way too complicated.

So here's what we want to do. Really simple, but seems to be very difficult to do in practice.

On each product page (one per owner) we want to have a really simple PayPal Buy Now button. No problem, but we have variations. That's where it gets difficult.

We have variations that can be selected, and they ADD to the price. So like this:

Item: Base Price: $0
Variation 1:
---- 1 foot - $10
---- 4 feet - $40
---- 12 feet = $120

Variation 2:
---- L termination - +$30
---- straight termination - +$50

Variation 3:
---- no sleeve - $0
---- black sleeve - $30

We just want to be able to have people select what they need, click Buy Now, and have it go to the typical PayPal buy now site with the price all ready to go.

I can handle the PayPal button thing. I can get it to do all the variations I need... but there doesn't seem to be any way to set +prices. Only final prices.

Any thoughts?

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Sorry, not sure how to edit. All prices should be considered + prices. Meaning that they add to the overall total. – Luke Jul 29 '12 at 18:26
Something like this would be ideal: capleswebdev.com/paypal/addtocart7.php – Luke Jul 29 '12 at 18:31
Close and down voting as too localized. It doesn't seem to "get any more simple" when an Answer comment's thread turns into a debriefing session... – brasofilo Jul 30 '12 at 0:32
I'm new here, is it a better idea to look elsewhere for help or repost as a more general question that will help more people in the future? The question seemed simple to me but I can see that's not really the case. Thanks. – Luke Jul 30 '12 at 0:59
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Yes, and I haven't gave you my welcome. . . . Reading this article may help you reframe the Question. . . . Have you searched the Repository? . . . . CodeCanyon also has some options. – brasofilo Jul 30 '12 at 8:22
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closed as too localized by Michael, brasofilo, Wyck, Brian Fegter, kaiser Sep 3 '12 at 22:42

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That looks like a really nice 'power cable' for an HTPC (is that your example?)

Questions?
1. what e-commerce plugin are you using in WordPress for your product pages wp e-commerce? woocommerce? something else?

  1. a. Are you trying to implement DROP SHIPPING where you have one online order site and fullfillment from a partner in each country?

or

2 b. You want multiple partners collecting payment in their own 'store' but having a single e-commerce website?

Simple Paypal plugin Finally .. this plugin might be what you need if you really want it simple http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/

But it will not allow e different Paypal ID's to be used.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS

  1. use a woocommerce or similar and then send the customer an invoice to pay (think zoho books or paypal or google checkout)
  2. use a form to submit an order then raise a proper invoice via zoho or something else
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Thanks Damien, we don't use any ecommerce plugins because we find them to be geared for the exact kind of website we are trying NOT to be. We're a small online boutique with three products (all with variations). We don't need any features outside of PayPal's built in functionality. The PayPal shopping cart plugin you have linked is one I have tried. It only allows a single paypal account per website. All I really need is a form that can post to PayPal's buy now function with an updated price. That's the missing piece of the puzzle so far. The example is lightly based on audio cables we sell. – Luke Jul 29 '12 at 20:42
continued: We are each based in a different part of the world, and we each ship our own product. We each have a different paypal address and we each handle our orders on our own. We also have separate branding. Each of us are known in our niche market and the website is a way for us to combine traffic. It's been a very successful model except there is no fast checkout options, and we believe that we are missing out on sales because of this. – Luke Jul 29 '12 at 20:46
you're not likely to find any wordpress plugin for single site that allows 3 different paypal accounts. BUT why not a form which the customer fills in and then you use invoice.zoho.com or books.zoho.com and send the customer a proper invoice with paypal link ... when they complete the payment you dispatch the order. it would achieve the same results – Damien Jul 29 '12 at 20:54
No problem not using a plugin, just looking for ideas. What you describe is exactly what we are looking for, but we don't have many repeat customers so spending $30 or $15 a month on zoho isn't a great option, although if it must be done it must be done! I can build the form, if there was some way to have the form tally up the price and then post to paypal that would be perfect. – Luke Jul 29 '12 at 21:20
then you can still add woocommerce plugin to the site. it can manage all the ordering and you can then just send the customer a link to pay via paypal or bank transfer for example. you can contact me via website if you have more questions. take a look at whitetshirtsdigital.com/shop and you can see that one of the payment options is pay invoice ... this is what you want? – Damien Jul 29 '12 at 21:24
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Gravity forms with PayPal add on would be your best solution.
...but again it only supports 1 PayPal account

see http://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/paypal/

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