Hi,
I have a client that has a Photo Gallery on their site built in Joomla.
They’re interested in selling the photographs as prints to customers. The prints come in varying sizes (a3, a4, a5).
What would you recommend is the best payment provider to use here?
Would PayPal’s “Add to Cart” functionality do the job and could it accommodate allowing the customer to choose the print size?
Thanks for any guidance here.
Many thanks,
Michael
I used PayPal buttons on a friend’s site, and there’s an option for a drop-down menu, which would allow you to select sizes. Admittedly, that was a while ago, but I doubt it’s changed much.
Awesome news 
Just so I understand, would it require much work to make these PayPal buttons “dynamic” so they store Product data along with the size of choice.
The client is hoping to publish photographs regularly which users can then buy at varying sizes.
Thanks again for any pointers
As I say, it was a wee while back, but as far as I can remember the set-up process was quite straightforward, if a little tedious.
The buttons need to be set up from within the client’s PayPal account, but once you’ve chosen the settings for the first one e.g. drop-down menu, etc., it’s easy enough to go on and set up the rest to match. My friend and I worked out what was needed and set up the first few buttons, then she did the rest at her leisure and just sent me the code to include on the site.
You can see how to do it here, on the PayPal Web site.
Aaaah OK.
I was hoping they could simply be “dynamic” and based on the Product Title.
I think the size of choice would just javascript update the price, so should be ok
I’ll have a think of the best way forward
If you wanted to add a free shopping cart into an existing site, you could take a look at Ecwid.
Just bear in mind that it relies on JavaScript for full display and function. If JS is disabled, it will display a mobile site for those users.
@FFCus I was hoping to keep the existing “Gallery” setup and only add “Add to Cart” buttons.
PHPCart would probably do what you need - PHP Shopping Cart Software :: PHP Cart
Hi Graham,
Thanks for the reply.
The current site is built with Joomla.
I think I could probably just add a generic “Add to Cart” button into the HTML Code alongside each Photo and then change the price depending on the size of print chosen.
So it would send the Product Name and Price to the PayPal cart.
Does this make sense? I’m sure it’s possible with PayPal.
Sorry, but I’ve never used Joomla so have no idea how you’d implement PHPCart in it.
Here’s a site (MEALS section) where PHPCart is working - http://www.starkeysfriendlyfoods.com
> I think I could probably just add a generic “Add to Cart” button into the HTML Code
> alongside each Photo and then change the price depending on the size of print chosen.
Well, Ecwid does have “Add to Cart” widget that you can easily embed into your web-site.
See Ecwid Knowledge Base / How can I show a specific product by default