what do i need to start selling?
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I have so far been unable to find what I think is a very basic bit of info. I’d like to add a shop page to my site so assume I need to sign up to business package but do I need anything else? eg Shopify, to process payments? Sorry if this seems a daft question but I’m new to this. I can’t believe after all my searches that I can’t find this info.
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Hi there. Congrats on starting your blog. You are using a WordPress.com site but if you want business hosting and to use plugins like Shopify, you need to use WordPress.org site. Here is some more detailed information for you about the difference between .com and .org. I hope this helps! https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/com-or-org/
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eCommerce is not possible on a wordpress.COM hosted blog unless you have a Business upgrade for $299. per year in US funds. See here:
http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide 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/
(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/
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