Need to add paypal to an html site

By the way, I forgot to read the header of your post. I supposed you were using PHP or some dynamically generated page for your store. You aren't supposing you can do this using plain HTML, are you?

There are more than a few free Dreamweaver Extensions that can do this, provide a free shopping cart and payment system through PayPal.

BTW--do you have a merchant account? If so, why on earth would you, or anyone else, pay (about) 5% of your on-line sales revenue when your credit card processor will charge you 1-some percent plus 20-some cents per transaction? That's five times the cost!! On a $100 transaction, the costs for Paypal are an additional $4 per $100. That doesn't sound like a lot, but multiply that by a thousand, tens of thousands, more? and it adds up.

If you do have a merchant account, talk to your credit card processor, make sure they work with your host provider, and if they do not work with your credit card processor, find a host provider that does. Your credit card processor will fall all over themselves to help you. They may go so far as to help you developing the code you need to "get online." That's how desperate banks are to get money, right now.

Even credit card processors will overcharge for internet sales, but if you're savvy enough, you can circumvent all that by typing in the sales information in your keypad just before you send the order to the customer. The costs will be little more than if the person appeared, in person, at your store, but you will circumvent even the monthly charges your credit card processor will charge if you're smart.

> I have seen some sites where there are products that have a buy now
button,
> and when clicked, it then shoots you straight through to paypal rather
> than in
> to a cart on the web site. How is this done?

It's done with the code the PayPal supplies. You would need to have
access to the customer's PayPal account to get the correct code.