Re: Softgoods payload delivery app using PayPal?

Part of the problem with this is that there's no 'shopping' functionality - people will only be able to buy 1 thing at a time. You could have the email forwarded to a procmail recipe which sends the email contents to a PHP script for processing. Kind of overkill, but it seems it would be the only way to integrate this with PHP in an automated fashion. CCNOW.com offers shopping cart functionality that you can integrate with anything, but it's 9%. Less than 12% of course, but still higher than paypal.com. Actually, the way I read the paypal site, it was 1.5% transaction fee. Thomas David Kehoe wrote: > Has anyone written an e-commerce application that enables customers to pay > using PayPal, and then automatically e-mails a file (text, photo, MP3, etc.) > to the customer? > > I want to use PayPal because it has zero transaction fees. Wells Fargo > charges me up to 12% for small credit card transactions. > > PayPal eliminates the need for a secure website. All credit card processing > is done on PayPal's website. > > PayPal sends an e-mail to the seller saying, "joe123@aol.com has paid you $3 > and attached this note: 'I want gilliananderson.jpg.'" All I have to do is > write a PHP app that parses the e-mail into > "joe123@aol.com, $1, gilliananderson.jpg" and then sends out the photo to > that address. > > A zillion people would sell softgoods on their websites if there was a > simple, cheap e-commerce application. By transferring functions to PayPal, > the e-commerce app becomes small and simple. > > Comments? Anyone want to develop it with me? Or am I re-inventing a wheel? > -- > Thomas David Kehoe Casa Futura Technologies > http://www.FriendshipCenter.com Stuttering Science & > Therapy Website > The free penpals database for > http://www.fluencydevices.com > individuals with disabilities. (888) FLU-ENCY > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961