Well, I decided I didn’t like the two-click buying. It was possible
for a customer to click “Buy Now” and take something out of stock, but
never follow through with the second click, which sent out the
confirmation e-mails, etc.
I’ve switched back to one-click buying, but added a double-check to
the database which should cut out any overeselling. If you do have an
item oversell, or any other issues, please don’t hesitate to contact
me.
Thanks to a suggestion from Christina of Baby Bloomrs, I have added an
extremely useful feature — order numbers for tracking purposes. I had
never thought of this because I sell in such small volumes, but from
now on, when you sell an item, an order # will be attached to that
sale. It will be in the subject of the confirmation e-mail as well as
the Paypal payment (assuming the customer pays via the Paypal
buttons). In addition, you now have an “Orders List” link at the
bottom of your vendor pages which will show you a listing of your
orders. I’ve retroactively entered items into this database based on
any past sales you had in your product tables. Hopefully, this will
make it easier to correlate sales and payments.
Finally, I hope to code up a payments page that I can link through the
customer’s confirmation e-mail, in case they don’t click through to
the payment right after they make their purchase. That should be
implemented in the next few days.
If anything in the code is acting unexpectedly, please feel free to contact me.