Craigslist eCommerce Tutorial
Collecting Payments From Readers, From Your Web Page
This lesson will assume that you have studied HTML at one or more of my recommended Design Sites ...if you haven't done that yet, go do it and return here
and I will show you how to use a web page to Collect Payments From Readers...
Craigslist allows users to use HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) in their ads (unlike many other classified web sites that do not)... HTML is the simple markup language that you must know and use to construct a web page... so this is a BIG Advantage to you as a seller... because readers of your ad on Craigslist can be directed (by you placing a HTML Link into the ad) to Your Web Page... rather than having them contact you via the funky Email System that Craigslist provides, or by contacting you from your Phone Number that you placed into the ad (not always a good idea unless you want to wait by the Phone all the time)... so instead if you build your web page (following the guidelines below), readers will find out where and when to contact you when they get to your web page, and they will also be given a Contact Email Form there, to contact you if they have further questions (after browsing your web page) ...
In addition and perhaps More Importantly (especially if you are a continual Craigslist Seller and have OTHER Items available), the readers will be shown other things that you have for sale at Your Web Page and perhaps purchase something else besides what they originally were interested in! The important thing to understand here is that you WANT the readers to go from Craigslist to Your Web Page...
And in this lesson I'll show you how to set-up another web page, to receive Payments from readers (an eCommerce page)...
Now first off, please Review My Craigslist Tutorial on building a Craigslist Ad...
Here is a PayPal page (you need to have a Merchants Account to get started with this at PayPal... it's FREE... so Sign-Up Now) which will help you to understand how to code the info for that Form Look Here ...Please SAVE the page for reference!!!
After you Study and Learn HTML, read my HTML Tutorial 1 to learn more about how to build a web page...
You can simply Search Google for "How to use PayPal Buynow Buttons" ... Look Here: FOR SEARCH Results
Finally, as a responsible Craigslist Seller... you MUST REMOVE any data when Items are Sold... this means being a WEBMASTER...of your page(s)!!!
Continue with help pages...use the links below...