Hey all,

This is my very first post on Webmaster-Talk.

I'm designing a small online shop for people to purchase ebooks and software. I would likt to make it possible for people to add to their shopping carts and use paypal to pay for them. I can make it so that they can pay for one item at a time, but it would be nice for them to just add all the products they want into a shopping cart and let them pay at the end. Once they finished paying, I want to allow them to download the purchased ebooks and/or software from a secure page.

The ideal way for this to work would be for the user to check all the files they wish to purchase, and pay for them all at once, then be sent the "successfull" page where only the files they checked would be available to download. Unfortunatley I don't know how to get the "successfull" page to know which files they checked when they were browsing.

If there's anyone out there who knows what steps I should follow, please feel free to post here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I believe PayPal has a shopping cart system you can use in your website. I remember I used one a long time ago and it worked great.

Thanks mgraphic for your advice. I'll look into paypal's shopping cart more carefully. I was also wondering if you know of a way to guarantee that the buyer will get to download only the products he/she has purchased. And I also wanted to add a special feature where the buyer can get a discount after purchasing x number of products. Thanks again for your post.