Capitalism... Attention Geeks and Online Shopaholics...

[raphrat]

so. does anyone know how to set and enforce a "minimum order amount"
(as in "cash total") on a PayPal shopping cart? the docs i've torn through
so far have been useless.

(fruitlessly x-posted earlier to pittsburgh)

Comments

[dutin]

don't use paypal ;)

or you could probably email them mentioning you didn't notice it.

[raphrat]

see, i KNEW that "don't use paypal" would be the first,
if not MULTIPLE response to that.

silly geeks.

[dutin]

then you should have said so ahead of time. :)

yes, we are silly, but we're usually right.

[dutin]

They don't have a shopping cart. That's the way they do it. :)

We do not have a shopping cart.
There is a $10.00 minimum order requirement.

[dutin]

that was on a different page. on that page there is:

Rule 1: You must place an order by emailing or phoning us.

Took me 2x through it to notice that. :)

[dutin]

so after looking more, i'm gonna say, go with cart software that interfaces with paypal. That way the cart sets the minimum and paypal is there for just taking payment.

:)

[raphrat]

yeah, that's looking to be the option.
i just thought that since it seems like such a simple and common option,
that there'd be a stock PayPal solution for it. :/

[rapier1]

honestly bradley, i already did all this for another company. paypal blows but you can write a quick interface to paypal in php. i can give you what i wrote if you want to use that as a start.

[raphrat]

oh, i'm totally game for that,
i just wanted to see if i was missing something totally obvious.
Paypal has a bunch of mods that amount to passing a pre-specified
hidden field, so if it were just a matter of that, i could save myself
a bunch of integration time.

[rapier1]

its actually pretty easy conceptually but the cart i wrote is specific to the site. anyway, i'm dumping a copy of the site now and I'll tar it up, and mail it over to you.