PayPal with more than one site?

[conran]

Hey all.
I want to open another shop similar to the one I already operate. But I'm wondering how people do this using PayPal.

Once a buyer buys through the shop and pay with paypal, it takes them back to the registered site right (the site that you originally set up the payment process with)?
So how do people get around this when using more than one site?

Any help appreciated.

[seamus]

it takes you back to the site the purchase was made, you can connect the same paypal account to several different sites, just use different emails for each site, paypal will redirect the customer back to the site they came from, not just to the site the paypal account was originally connected to in the first place.

just create different emails and add them to your paypal account,
 ie,

paypal@shopone.com
paypal@shoptwo.com
paypal@shopthree.com

etc
buy from shop three and paypal will redirect the customer back to that shop, and send the right data to that shop for the payment to show in admin as "recived" or "refunded" or what ever action has been made.

[Grifter]

I do the same as Seamus says but I try to make it something extra than payapal@ just for security purposes. So it maybe gate4paypal@siteone.com for example.

Also in the cart there should be return urls written in. For example with the wordpress cart I'm currently trying out there are 3 return urls. One for payment completion. One for cancellation and another for something else I can't remember right now. So if the customer reaches paypal and click on the return to yoursite.com they are sent back to a page saying sorry for cancelling your order.... and an option to continue shopping. If it's paypal IPN then they come back automatically after paying with a message of thanks etc. This also helps with the guest checkout. If they don't put in any shipping address then the paypal details are used.

[conran]

Thanks for the help. I'll look into this over the next week or two.

Took a quick look at my PayPal account and still can't find my way around it very easily. It's such a mess IMO.
I often end up going around in circles trying to find something extremely simple.
I'm not a n00b when it comes to the web, but I'm often shocked at how poor PayPal is on usability.

[wringle]

Auto Return for Website Payments:
Auto Return for Website Payments brings your buyers back to your website immediately after payment completion. Auto Return applies to PayPal Website Payments, including Buy Now, Donations, Subscriptions, and Shopping Cart.

thats cool and i know exactly how to make this return page
but the problem i use my paypal account to sell more than one product in more than one site and on each i want buyers to be redirected to another page after buying, anyidea how ?

for example if i am selling ebooks + softwares i want my buyers to be redirected to ebooks.mydomain.com after buying an ebook, and i want them to be redirected to softwares.mydomain.com after buying any of my softwares

by the way lets say i am selling an ebook, how can i give the buyer the ebook after they paid for it ? should it be a link in my webpage ?

[Grifter]

The return urls are set in each individual site for that site and not in Paypal. So if a successful purchase comes from your ebooks.domain then the successful purchase url would be a return to that domain saying Thanks for your purchase etc. This is configured from the domain.

As for ebooks you could have a protected page (password, etc) and notified by email automatically. Or if its for a single ebook at a time then the successful return url can be a download page.