PayPal Tutorials

Introduction Of all the PayPal API’s I’ve worked with over the years, I have to say that the Permissions service has been the most time saving, and in turn, cost saving, service that I’ve used…and I’ve used them all. In this article, I’d like to explain that bold...

Introduction Invoicing is very important aspect of any business and any tool that eases this process is generally welcomed.  PayPal has a great invoicing tool that’s actually been around for a while now, but merchants were forced to use it from directly within their...

Overview In part of 1 of this 2-part series, we covered all of the basics of what exactly is involved with making calls to eBay’s API using PHP.  We reviewed each step in the process, but we haven’t actually seen any of this in action yet.  For part 2, we’ll be...

Overview eBay provides a very large set of web service API’s for developers to interact with.  It can be somewhat daunting to developers at any level and especially to developers without much experience dealing with web services. PHP is a little bit unique among...

Understanding the Differences of Each Over the years PayPal has grown into a vast array of payment options that can often puzzle merchants and developers alike.  One area of this arena that is often accompanied by such confusion involves safely billing customers using...

Introduction In part 1 of this 2-part series, we discussed the overall structure of Magento, where files and directories are supposed to go, and how XML configuration files and templates work. Now, I’d like to dive a little deeper and look at how modules work within...

Introduction Magento is an excellent piece of open-source software providing developers with an e-commerce platform that’s extremely extensible and flexible…once you know the system. Of all the open-source shopping cart systems available, Magento is widely considered...

Introduction Driving traffic to your website is obviously an important piece of the equation for any online business.  Converting that traffic into sales is the primary goal, of course, however, there are other sorts of conversions that can be considered a success as...