[Plugin: Jazzy Forms] Link to Paypal

Hi Jim,

I’m glad you find my software useful!

Yes, I think integration with payment gateways would make pretty much sense, because at the end of the day cost estimates and price calculations show their real value when the client pulls out the wallet…

I’m planning to develop integration with payment gateways by mid-March (at least according to my very vague roadmap), probably as a paid add-on. Until then, an email feature and probably generic HTTP redirection might do the job for you as well. However, both are still on my to-do list, too. That’s why I don’t call it version 1.0 yet.

Regards,
Igor

I would certainly agree with this option but to take this one step further for those of us that are using a shopping cart system for wordpress such as shopperpress would it be possible to link the elements within the quote to products in the shopping cart system, this way there would not need to be a payment gateway required as the shopping cart system would handle this

I worked with WP e-commerce before and as far as I remember you had pre-defined products there. Recently I’ve been taking a look at YAK and its post-based catalogue seemed to have much more sense for WordPress.

Does anyone know a shopping cart that could take add arbitrary product variations with a variable price? There is no shopping cart solution with an open API so external software can add its stuff through a known interface, is it?

We use shopperpress from premiumpress.com, it only has predifined products also

I guess it would be possuble to give your form the admin rights to post a product when a customer wants to order but it would mean you would have to make the product a private post so it does not get listed on the web site

I’ve come here after following the comments on your blog. I urgently need to add a ‘Buy now’ button from PayPal at the end of my form. Is there a way I could use the final value from a ‘Output Field’ and save it in a PHP variable or something, which I can then pass on to the ‘Buy Now’ button code supplied by PayPal?
Thanks a ton for giving all of us such a fantastic plugin.

jimmymadon, well currently the data resides on the front-end and (apart from the new Email feature) no communication is established to get the user input back to server. I plan, however, to come up with another feature to send out a given set of data out as an HTTP request to an arbitrary URL. This way you could do whatever you want with it with PHP. Maybe you could use that to communicate to Paypal or other payment systems directly. (Internally I’m tracking this issue as https://github.com/l90r/jazzy-forms-dev/issues/60)

A PayPal interface is the final part needed to complete Jazzy forms as an e-commerce utility. Any of the suggestions above are what is needed to get this going.

I like the “buy now” button idea best.
Paypals html “buy now” button is eight lines of code.
Jazzy could perhaps implement this by creating a Paypal element created from code duplicating the PayPal element button but substituting the “item_name” and “amounts” for a formula derrived from other Jazzy form elements.