Sell Something

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  angelabishopdesigns · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 7:54 pm

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  Can you place items for sale with a personal site?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 8:30 pm

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  Yes. You need a Business plan to have an e-commerce site hosted by wordpress.COM Business Plan http://wordpress.com/pricing

  The Business upgrade includes:
  • Google analytics
  • Footer Credit Options https://en.support.wordpress.com/footer-credits/
  • SEO Tools https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo-tools/
  • The ability to install most plugins https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/ including woocommerce and the ability to install third party themes. https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#uploading-custom-themes

  If you do not purchase a Business plan you can read and act on what follows.

  Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations 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.

  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/

  (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

  If what I provided above in my first response and in my second one here at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Sep 25, 2017 at 8:44 pm

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  There’s another way to quickly sell something via PayPal, which is the new Simple Payments feature, available with both the Premium or Business plan. Learn more here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/simple-payments/

  Without a Premium or Business plan, the instructions provided by timethief above will let you add a PayPal button through a more manual process.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  Let us know if you have any other questions!