I need to use PayPal and Zen Cart Shipping backwards! Help!

12 Jul 2008, 8:27 AM

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I need to use PayPal and Zen Cart Shipping backwards! Help!

I've read all the why the shipping gets charged twice when you have both The shipping on Zen Cart and PayPal Cart at the same time.

I want to use the PayPal shipping charges only, and not the Zen Cart shipping charges, because I have another site set up at the same PayPal account that needs those charges added to it.

I am moving a huge html site to the Zen site and want to make sure I've got it the way I want it to work before I add the huge amount of products into the Zen site.

Can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this?
Or advice on what to do?

Dragon

13 Jul 2008, 2:50 AM

drbyte

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Re: I need to use PayPal and Zen Cart Shipping backwards! Help!

I suppose you could be brave and enable only the "Store Pickup" shipping module. Maybe rename it to "ask PayPal about your shipping costs".
Then hope your customers don't abandon the cart when they get over to the PayPal side and it changes the amount they're expecting to pay.

Or, you could just use Paypal Express Checkout instead of Website Payments Standard. Express Checkout ignores the shipping settings in your PayPal account, and uses what your Zen Cart store calculates for shipping.

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