Adding a Paypal Shopping Cart to my site

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  creativendeavorscrafts · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 10:33 pm

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  I have a Paypal account and I have been trying to add the Shopping Cart to my site but I am failing miserably at this task. How do I do this? Do I need to have a paid site? Do I need something special?

  All of the directions that I find when I do an internet search don’t seem to give all the instructions. Something is missing and I can’t figure it out.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 10:36 pm

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  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability here at wordpress.COM. For that you need a wordpress.ORG software install on paid hosting. See: moving to self hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com

  There is no e-commerce capability here. There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM and you cannot add a shopping cart to sites hosted by wordpress.COM. See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
  https://move.wordpress.com/

  E-commerce plugin options have been removed here at WordPress.COM. Secure payment systems are not available here at wordpress.COM. You need a wordpress.ORG install. Please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/e-commerce-22?replies=17#post-2575955

  Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site you have two options.

  (1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.

  (2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/