E-junkie shopping cart or PayPal shopping cart?

[eddit]

I have icons sets (digital goods) that I want to sell. I have the products on my site, and entered into my e-junkie account. I'm trying to decide whether I should use the e-junkie shopping cart buttons or the paypal shopping cart buttons.



Anyone know why I shouldn't just use the paypal shopping cart?

[E-junkie_Guru]

You do not need to use the PayPal Cart buttons we offer merely to accept PayPal checkout payments. Our standard cart and buttons will offer buyers a PayPal checkout button in the cart. Unless you know you need to use PayPal's cart system for some specific reason, you would do best to use our standard cart and buttons.



Our standard cart presents a much nicer experience for buyers, as it appears to be part of your own site when the cart fades in as an overlay in front of your own pages rather than opening a popup window like PayPal's cart does. Our standard cart also allows you to use the Cart-based settings in your E-junkie Seller Admin (Shipping, Tax, Discounts), so you can manage all your product and cart settings conveniently from one unified place and only use PayPal to process actual payment funds.

[eddit]

Ya that makes sense. I definitely liked the way the e-junkie cart behaves rather than the paypal cart.



Question 1: Why do you all provide links to the paypal shopping cart then?



Question 2: Could I use still PayPal shopping cart for digital goods? I understand that I'll have to manage some cart settings at PayPal instead, just curious if the distribution of digital goods still works if I use the PayPal cart.



Question 3: Forgive my inability to track these things down, but would you happen to have a link to the documentation on making the cart appear as a overlay, instead of just a new page?

[E-junkie_Guru]

1. Some Sellers who are migrating to us from an all-PayPal solution may have elaborate cart settings in their PayPal account that they can't or don't want to reproduce in E-junkie's cart settings, or maybe they just personally prefer the PayPal cart they're already familiar with.
   
   
   
2. As long as you're using E-junkie's version of PayPal cart buttons, then our digital fulfillment should work fine, but of course none of the Cart-based settings in E-junkie Seller Admin would have any relevance to using a PayPal cart.
   
   
   
3. The standard E-junkie cart (not the PayPal cart) automatically works as an overlay if you follow our directions. Just make sure that every page that has any of our Add to Cart buttons also has at least one block of our View Cart code as well, as the latter calls upon all the programming that makes the overlay work.

[amyt]

This is an interesting conversation. Out of curiosity, how well do your customers convert without the PayPal button? I ask simply because it's such a trusted and well branded form of payment that I have found 90% of my customers choose to use that button to pay even when they are buying the shopping cart from me... in other words, they trust paypal vs. the payment link on the shopping cart they just purchased from me! It's quite amusing.



Amy T

http://www.zippycart.com - Find and Compare Shopping Carts Online

[E-junkie_Guru]

If you integrate PayPal with your E-junkie account, then your E-junkie cart will display a PayPal-logo checkout button, as you can see in our demo here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/demo.htm



If you wish, you can also replace our standard Add to Cart or Buy Now button images with a PayPal-style button image; see instructions here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.purchase-buttons.htm

[webexpert]

If I well understand...we don't have all E-junkie features if we use Paypal cart. Right?

Can we track affiliate and deliver products with protected link using Paypal cart?



tks!

[webexpert]

Where can I find an example of you Shopping cart?

[sgt_bilko]

I was going to try with clickbank primarily because I would then gain access to their large pool of affiliates in theory, however, it has to be said that using clickbank is far less slick than the standard e-junkie approach where it appears to all stay in one shop.

[E-junkie_Guru]

@ashleykaryl:

Our integration with ClickBank is also somewhat limited, in that we can only support them with Buy Now buttons that bypass our shopping cart to take buyers directly to checkout for only one item at a time, and thus cannot use any of our cart-based features or settings (like tax, shipping, discounts and integrated Google Analytics tracking).



@webexpert:

We do make available a "PayPal Cart" version of button codes for merchants who have very specific needs to use PayPal's shopping cart solution instead of ours, but this is completely unrelated to accepting PayPal checkout payments. You do not need to use our PayPal Cart button codes merely to accept payments with PayPal. We recommend using our standard E-junkie Shopping Cart button codes, which will provide buyers a PayPal checkout button in the cart and provide full support for all of our features.



You can view a demo of our cart in action here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/demo.htm



You can also see and test other sites that use E-junkie Cart here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/clients.htm