PayPal Web Controls for ASP.NET: Part 2

Paul Kimmel finished his two-part DevSource article by explaining how to use the PayPal Web Controls for ASP.NET to create a Storefront. The first article gives a great Intro to the PayPal Developer Sandbox.

Indexed by Google Print

While doing a Google search for 'PayPal Hacks', I found that the book has been indexed by the Google Print service. So now anyone can search some of the text of PayPal Hacks online.

For example, doing a search for "will you marry me" returns the page in the Acknowledgements section where I proposed to my fiance! You can try it here yourself, here ... Search PayPal Hacks.

eBig.org eCommerce Workshop & Panel

I'll be on a panel tonite where I'll give away two copies of PayPal Hacks. On the panel will be Jim Lanzone - SVP of Ask Jeeves, Maheesh Jain - Co-Founder of CafePress, Janine Popick - CEO of Vertical Response, Fran Maier - Executive Director of TRUSTe and moderators Andreas Ramos & Nick Hurd. If you're in the East Bay, come on by and perhaps you'll get a free copy.

eBig eCommerce Event

Chat Interview with Wholesale411

Today I gave a online chat interview, with Neon and other users from Wholesale411.com. There were lots of good seller oriented questions. It seems there is uncertainty about the difference between a PayPal Business account and a traditional payment processor Merchant Account. I tried to answer them but will have to clarify better next time.

Basically with a PayPal Business account can do most everything you can with a traditional merchant account, but you don't have to pay setup or monthly fees as you would a traditional merchant account. And PayPal hosts everything so you can accept payments right away. Unfortunately, a PayPal Business account is not recognized as a valid merchant account by other payment gateways, but more and more ecommerce stores (like Kurant, StoreFront, Miva and other ecommerce shopping carts are PayPal-enabled.

Radio Interview with wsRadio

Today I was interviewed by Paul and Sarah Edwards of The Entrepreneur Magazine Home Based Biz Show.

Click here to listen: . More details to come.