StoresOnline–Day 27. Still Trying to Set up Site
May 27th 2007 04:28 am
Since it is after midnight, I guess this constitutes as the next day.
Still trying to set up my site. The biggest problem I had today was not with StoreBuilder at all, it was with Paypal.
Since I couldn’t afford the fee for having a true merchant account linked to my site, I opted to use my Paypal account. But I forgot how annoying Paypal is. Honestly, if a company came along that fixed all the really stupid things Paypal does, I bet they could get a huge percentage of the market.
Paypay really stinks if you’re trying to use one account for multiple websites (Paypal doesn’t allow you to have more than one account, so you really have to). I already had a Paypal account set up under a business name. But now I want to sell a different product from StoresOnline. Spent the large portion of the day trying to figure out how to have someone order a baby product from my StoresOnline site and not have Paypal tell it that it is sending payment to a bird feeder store.
Still trying to resolve this.
I did find one thing that the StoresOnline guys told me that isn’t true. They said a couple of times in the seminar that you have full access to the html of your pages. That is absolutely not true. From what I can gather from the StoresOnline forum (which I finally found, whoo hoo! http://onlinemerchantforum.com/forum/ ), this used to be true about the previous version. You could download any page, tweak the html, and upload it again, thereby creating a customized version of the page.
But this is not true in the latest version (version 5).
So I’m a little annoyed at being told this was the case. But not that annoyed. True, I can’t tweak the template or create my own template, but so far that hasn’t been an issue. I can use html in any text element, and I can add any tag to the head section. This means that I can link to an external stylesheet and then use the css classes in the html of my elements.
I tried this and it works great.
Maybe that’s good enough. We’ll see….
If only Paypal were that easy to solve.
Still trying to set up my site. The biggest problem I had today was not with StoreBuilder at all, it was with Paypal.
Since I couldn’t afford the fee for having a true merchant account linked to my site, I opted to use my Paypal account. But I forgot how annoying Paypal is. Honestly, if a company came along that fixed all the really stupid things Paypal does, I bet they could get a huge percentage of the market.
Paypay really stinks if you’re trying to use one account for multiple websites (Paypal doesn’t allow you to have more than one account, so you really have to). I already had a Paypal account set up under a business name. But now I want to sell a different product from StoresOnline. Spent the large portion of the day trying to figure out how to have someone order a baby product from my StoresOnline site and not have Paypal tell it that it is sending payment to a bird feeder store.
Still trying to resolve this.
I did find one thing that the StoresOnline guys told me that isn’t true. They said a couple of times in the seminar that you have full access to the html of your pages. That is absolutely not true. From what I can gather from the StoresOnline forum (which I finally found, whoo hoo! http://onlinemerchantforum.com/forum/ ), this used to be true about the previous version. You could download any page, tweak the html, and upload it again, thereby creating a customized version of the page.
But this is not true in the latest version (version 5).
So I’m a little annoyed at being told this was the case. But not that annoyed. True, I can’t tweak the template or create my own template, but so far that hasn’t been an issue. I can use html in any text element, and I can add any tag to the head section. This means that I can link to an external stylesheet and then use the css classes in the html of my elements.
I tried this and it works great.
Maybe that’s good enough. We’ll see….
If only Paypal were that easy to solve.
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