Adding buy now button to listing

[Nickb +]

Is it possible to add a buy now feature to a listing.

[Lhotch +]

Short answer is yes, anything is possible.

The long answer however is a bit more difficult and largely depends on what you mean by a "buy now" button. What exactly are you looking for the buy now button to do?

[Nickb +]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

Short answer is yes, anything is possible.

The long answer however is a bit more difficult and largely depends on what you mean by a "buy now" button. What exactly are you looking for the buy now button to do?

This can be answered in 2 ways.

1. classified ads can work in many ways. I am setting up an art sales classifieds. There are a couple I have seen that have a buy it now feature in the listing, but obviously this restricts to one payee.

2. By using a html based listing system, where customers use add html in their listing, they could then insert their own buy it now link.

This would add great functionality to this already great script.

[Lhotch +]

I guess what I was specifially refering to is do you want the 68C site to process the sale in the sense that the 68c site will take payment, track purchase etc OR do you simply want to allow ad posters the option of using a buy now button which uses an external payment gateway.

It sounds like you want to use the second option above where an external gateway is used which would be much easier to implement than having 68c process payment itself.

There are however a couple other questions and things to consider. For example, if an ad poster is posting a one of a kind original art peice what is going to prevent 2 people from buying the same art peice? Also, which payment providers will the buy now but serve?