SETTING UP A PAYPAL PAYMENT SYSTEM IN OSCOMMERCE
After installing an oscommerce store, the next thing you want to do is work yourself through the backend to get familar with it, one of the things that would strike your mind is how to set up a payment system that would recieve money from your customers with ease. Majority of online entreprenuers would go for paypal payment system because that is one of the easiest payment gateways to set up.
I have decided to talk about this a little bit because not so long ago, i was consulted by a client on how to set up a payment system in oscommerce with paypal. The good news is that oscommerce already has paypal payment module built into it and all you need to do is configure it in the store admin.
Before you do that, you must make sure you have set up a paypal account and then come back and configure your paypal account in the oscommerce store admin. Because we would not like to touch on others that are not so relevant, lets walk you through how to do it with paypal.
LET’S GO HERE:
- Go to your admin
- Click on ‘Modules’ folder
- Click on ‘payment’
- on the list on the right find ‘PayPal Website Payments Standard’
- Click on it and top right , click on ‘edit’ .
- Then set the button to true if you want to accept payment by paypal website standard and then enter your paypal account email address and click on ‘update’ . There you are finished, all you need to do is test it and see if it works, try to buy an item as a customer and see if it works, once it leads you to your paypal page, then you are on the right path.
Hope this helps.
