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Subject: Streamlining ecommerce
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce
Asked by: jude1-ga
List Price: $100.00
Posted: 23 Jan 2006 20:59 PST
Expires: 04 Feb 2006 09:48 PST
Question ID: 437050
My site uses Mal's ecommerce and Paypal. I get customized receipts
through mal's sent to my outlook email box as html attachments. I ship
via PayPal's system.

What I'm looking for is a way to streamline things. Batch printing, batch shipping.

Currently I do everything myself, but if I decide to hire someone to
help, I need them to be able to handle the shipping without accessing
my PayPal account. Is there third party software available for this?

Also, with the customized receipts, is there a way to batch print
email attachments in outlook? Currently I have to open each email, and
then open each attachment, and then print it.

As for streamlining shipping, I currently use PayPal's integrated
shipping options. However, even though 90% of the information is the
same (Envelope/Package, 1 lb.), I have to do each individually. How
can I batch this? My ideal solution is to have something NOT attached
to PayPal so that I can have an employee do it without being able to
access my PayPal account.
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Subject: Re: Streamlining ecommerce
From: chipster778-ga on 02 Feb 2006 17:16 PST
 
While I can say I am not familiar with Mal, the situation you
described seems to have a fairly simple solution, partially provided
by PayPal.

You will have to have certain databases on your site. MySQL works fine
for this, and is available on most LAMP servers and shared hosting
accounts.

When your customer pays for your product via PayPal, the information
about the transaction can be sent by PayPal to a script on your
website. The script will log the sale into your database, along with
the details required for you to fulfill the order.

Your worker(s), from wherever they are (think remote fulfillment here)
can login to your website, view the orders requiring filling, and take
action as needed.
They will not have access to your PayPal account. 

Visit the PP site for information about having them send transaction
data to your site.

Happy motoring!

Ken Chipman
http://eLynxWeb.com
Subject: Re: Streamlining ecommerce
From: jude1-ga on 04 Feb 2006 09:48 PST
 
Thank you Ken.  :)

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