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    PayPal Ecommerce Extension for Adobe Golive

    Adobe Golive Application IconHave you ever just wanted to be able to drag and drop paypal buttons into a place on your web page and not have to worry about whether it will work or not, or whether you have missed out some hidden field or other in order for the buttons to work and make sure the money ends up at the right place instead of PayPal’s back pocket? Well if you use Adobe Golive to create your web pages, now you can!

    Developed by Paul Vachier at Transmit Media, the PayPal Ecommerce Extension for Adobe Golive now lets you do just that. It is easy to use, intuitive and allows Golive to integrate smoothly with PayPal.

    Drop down to the bottom of the page for Adobe Dreamweaver PayPal Extensions, if that is your WYSIWYG HTML editor of choice.

    Integrate PayPal with Adobe Golive Version 6 and Up

    The PayPal Ecommerce Extension is currently compatible for Mac OSX and Windows versions of Adobe Golive version from version 6 and up. Moreover it is up-to-date with all the currencies that PayPal has to offer with USD, CAD, AUD, EUR, GBP and YEN.

    What Does the PayPal Extension for Golive Do?

    The PayPal eCommerce Extension offers one of the easiest & least expensive ways to sell goods and services on ones website, though of course it relies on your pre-purchase of the Adobe Golive software, either standalone or as part of the current Creative Suite.

    It facilitates the addition of eBusiness and eCommerce to your web site by creating PayPal payment buttons (Buy Now and Add to Cart buttons) as well as adding access to the basic shopping cart functionality (View Cart button) without the requirement for any scripting or programming know-how. The simple application wizard guides the user through the process, and allows him or her to be functioning in minutesDisplay of the Golive PayPal Ecommerce Extension Pallette.

    In addition the user can set up buttons for recurring payments, so that daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, or annual subscriptions can be initiated by the user from their web site. The user can also create a free or paid trial period, and charge a setup fee to initiate the subscription on PayPal.

    Once all of this is one, the customers to your site can then use their PayPal account or a Credit Card (no PayPal account required) to pay for items.

    Getting Started and How To Use The Extension

    Having installed the extension and selected the correct palette, decide which object to use and drag it onto the page from the “Objects” palette. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application to specify the appropriate settings for the product or service.

    As a note of caution, you cannot use single or double quotation marks in any of the Wizard’s form fields as this will break the script (eg, 3″ CD won’t work, but 3-Inch CD will).

    Once a button has been finished, the user can adjust it again by selecting the button in “Layout View” and clicking the “Edit” button in the “Inspector” palette. This relaunches the application wizard and allows the userto make any necessary changes.

    Testing Your New PayPal Buttons

    It is recommended to create a live test account for sale items prior to posting these items for sale publicly on a web site. This requires the seller to have both a personal account and a business account with PayPal.

    To test the buttons, simply use a personal account to purchase the item from the web site of the business account, then once the transaction goes through, log into the business account and use the “refund” feature to return the actual payment to the personal account.

    More detailed information on this procedure can be found on the PayPal IPN Test Procedure page.

    Conclusion: A Quick And Easy Way To Add Ecommerce

    The PayPal Ecommerce Extension for Adobe Golive is a great addition to the armory of any web developer and is great considering the amount of time and money it might help you save on developing a web site with multiple products and services, as well as the possibility of recurring payments. The extension is a bargain at 21.95 USD and from purchase to dragging and dropping the PayPal objects onto your web page is only but about 5 clicks away. For speed and ease of use, as well as lack of faults, I would definitely have to give the Paypal Ecommerce Extension developed by TransmitMedia a 10/10.

    To find out more information go to TransmitMedia’s Adobe Golive PayPal Ecommerce Extension page.

    Dreamweaver Extensions for Windows and Mac OSX

    The following are a number PayPal extensions for Adobe Dreamweaver, as alternatives to the Golive PayPal extension, if you use Dreamweaver, but which we have not used nor can specifically recommend:

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