eStore – different buttons for different payment methods

[jaspair]

I’m using eStore, eMember and Payment Gateway bundle to sell memberships.

Every membership can only be sold once. For each membership level I want to give a user the option to pay via PayPal or via creditcard (Stripe).

Is it possible to place two eStore subscribe now buttons with different button images (one for PayPal and one for Creditcard) on the same product page?

[admin]

For some shortcodes yes but for some no. The best is to make different eStore products (one for PayPal and one for Stripe). Then you can put them on your landing/products page. It is always better to go with different eStore products as that will offer you the better setup. You really have no reason to do one eStore product for this so why limit yourself to this.

[jaspair]

Thank you for your reply!

We are a dog rescue center and want people to be able to sponsor a dog. Once they sponsor the dog they get access to extra content. Every dog can only be sponsored by one person.

So to do this I setup a membership level for every dog. We want to give people the choice to pay by PayPal or by creditcard. So the idea is to also create an eStore product for every dog, set the quantity to one, create a page with the info of the dog and put two buttons there. One to pay with PayPal and one to pay by creditcard.

If I would create two different eStore products, one for PayPal and one for creditcard both with quantity of one, the same dog can in theory be sponsored twice right? Or is there a better way to do this?

[wzp]

We want to give people the choice to pay by PayPal or by creditcard.

If you have a verified PayPal business account (they’re free); you’d only need 1 button. The PayPal checkout would give them the choice of either using their PayPal account, or using a credit card.

[admin]

Think of the eStore products as just a placeholder here. Certain products give access to certain membership level (depending on what you have configured).

Lets say you have a membership level “Dog 1” and another membership level “Dog 2”. Now you can create two eStore products for each of those membership levels. So the TWO eStore products will both give access to membership level “Dog 1” for example. With the one estore product, you put a PayPal buy now button and with the 2nd estore product you put a Stripe buy now button. You can put both those buy/sponsor/donate buttons on your landing page of “Dog 1”. Visitors paying with any of those two eStore buttons will get access to membership level “Dog 1”.

Then do the same for “Dog 2” membership level and so on.

Alternatively, you can just accept the payment via a PayPal business merchant account which will allow your visitors to pay via credit card or their paypal account (like @wzp said).

[jaspair]

When I tested with a sandbox PayPal business account I had the option of paying by creditcard but I was still required to enter a password for a new PayPal account. Maybe this is different with the live version.

Thank you both so much for explaining my options!

[wzp]

When I tested with a sandbox PayPal business account…

Sandbox testing DOES NOT reflect reality (it’s like VR, fake). The primary reason that sandbox testing exists in the plugin, is to validate that IPN are properly being processed. It IS NOT intended as an end-to-end test of the buyer’s shopping experience.

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