Post #152455 by Swanky on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 11:54 AM

On 2005-04-12 11:22, cheekytiki wrote:
As an addition to this topic, does anyone know of away to control stock when selling through paypal?
As in if you only have one of a certain item and it sells when you are asleep at night ,lets say. Some one else can't come along and try to buy the same item before you've had the chance to take it off.
Anybody?

PayPal isn't going to manage your inventory, you have to do that on your end. That means special software. That's something I am doing with Hukilau this year. Let me break it down geek style, yo.

PayPal allows you to set the return page for after a transaction. It will pass a variable through the header info back to that page that has the complete transaction in it. So, you write code to take that variable and see what they bought and adjust your inventory. But this requires you to have an inventory and all that jazz.

For Hukilau, I am going to make it so that when you check out through PayPal, it then credits you with ticket payments and mug payments and such and I get immediate updates on all that and I can connect a PayPal payemnt by Joe Tiki's PayPal account, made by his wahine who logged into Hukilau as Jane Wahine. No more trying to figure that mess out. And the biggy, no more missed payments because PayPal didn't email me. THAT happens about once in ten payments. Grrr!