SwiftCD has partnered with PayPal to help you ship your  on-demand CDs and DVDs!

Now you can set up your PayPal order forms to send CD/DVD orders directly to SwiftCD.  We will ship your CDs/DVDs directly to your customers within 48 hours, using the customized labels and packaging that you set up with us.

Click here for a more detailed look at our services.

Interested?  Here is an overview of the process:

-In the SwiftCD Vendor Area, create Products, Labels, and Packages.

-In the PayPal Vendor Area, create a "BuyNow" button to use on your web site.

-When your customers send payments through PayPal, SwiftCD is electronically notified, and we will ship your CDs/DVDs directly to your customers

-We will send you an invoice at the end of the month, which you can pay by transferring a payment to the SwiftCD PayPal account

Here are the details:

Step 1.  Sign up for SwiftCD services here.  

     a.  In the Vendor Area, create Products, Labels, and Packages.  

     b.  To set up your PayPal "Buy Now" button, you will need to record the following information from your SwiftCD account:

     PayPal IPN URL - This is your PayPal IPN URL, used with each PayPal "Buy Now" button that you create, used to insure that electronic notifications get sent to SwiftCD.  This item is found in the SwiftCD Vendor Area, Company Information/Vendor Info page, at the bottom.  Details for its use are below in Step 3.

     ProductID - For each CD or DVD product you create in the SwiftCD Vendor Area, you will be given a specific ProductID.  Each ProductID will be associated with a PayPal "Buy Now" button below.

     LabelID - For each PayPal "Buy Now" button, you will specify a CD/DVD LabelID which you set up in the SwiftCD Vendor Area.

     PackageID - For each PayPal "Buy Now" button, you will specify a CD/DVD PackageID which you set up in the SwiftCD Vendor Area.

(If you are already a SwiftCD vendor, skip to Step 2 below).

Step 2.  Establish a PayPal business account here. 

(If you are already a PayPal vendor, skip to Step 3 below).

Step 3.  Log in to your PayPal account.  Turn on IPN (Instant Payment Notification) by doing the following:

     a.  Click on My Account > Profile > Selling Preferences > Instant Payment Notification Preferences.  Click Edit.  

     b.  Turn on the check box at the top of the page.  

     c.  You can choose to have all sales notifications sent to SwiftCD.  You should only do this if all of your PayPal "Buy Now" buttons will be used for SwiftCD orders.  If some of your "Buy Now" buttons will not be used for SwiftCD orders, then you must configure each button differently.  Details:

          (1)  If you want all of your "Buy Now" button notifications to be sent to SwiftCD, then paste your IPN URL from Step 1 above into the box provided, then click "Save".  Don't worry about the note at the bottom, warning you about supporting IPN, SwiftCD will take care of everything.  

          (2).  If you only want some of your "Buy Now" button notifications to be sent to SwiftCD, leave the IPN URL box blank, then click save.  You will provide the IPN URL with each "Buy Now" button that you create, in Step 4 below.

     d.  If you do not see Instant Payment Notification Preferences under the Selling Preferences column, then you probably have set up a personal account with PayPal.  You must establish a business account with PayPal to use the IPN service.  There is an excellent PDF overview of PayPal Merchant Services here.

Step 4.  Create your PayPal "Buy Now" button for your CD or DVD product.

     a.  In the PayPal Vendor Area, click on Merchant Tools > Buy Now Buttons.  Fill out the form for one of your CD/DVD products, and specify ProductID, LabelID, PackageID from Step 1 above as follows:

     b.  In the Item ID/Number field, enter the three values separated by tildes(~).  For example, if you are selling ProductID softco-002 with LabelID 1 and PackageID 2, then the string for this box is:

softco-002~1~2

 NOTE:  For fulfillment items (not on-demand CDs or DVDs), simply add ~1~1.  For example, if your fulfillment item ProductId is 123456, your PayPal Item ID/Number would be 123456~1~1. 

c.  Click on Create Button Now, and use the resulting HTML for your web page.

     d.  If you chose to leave the IPN URL blank in Step 3c(2) above, then you need to provide a notification URL with the "Buy Now" button.  Syntax is:

<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="https://www.swiftcd.com/IPN.asp?ECID=xxxxxx">

where xxxxxx is the ECID from your personal IPN URL from the SwiftCD Vendor Area, as defined in Step 1 above.  Click here for sample button scripts. 

Step 5.  (Optional)  Specifying shipping methods

     If you do not specify a shipping method, our default is to ship your product by First Class/Air Mail.  If you would like speedier delivery, or a tracked delivery method, we offer a complete range of UPS shipping options.

     Shipping costs vary widely by package size and country.  IMPORTANT:  Be sure to collect enough money from your customers to cover shipping charges.  PayPal allows you to charge shipping as a percentage of the total cost, or allows you to charge shipping as a flat rate.  Details on PayPal shipping options can be found at Merchant Tools > Buy Now Buttons > Add More options button.  Note that PayPal shipping charges do not take into account the destination country.

     We suggest you simply add a flat shipping fee to the cost of your product, and tell your customer "29.95 includes US shipping" or "34.95 includes worldwide shipping".

     Here is a complete listing of the Shipping Methods that we offer, along with pricing.  We offer two techniques to specify Shipping Methods with your PayPal orders.

Shipping Method Technique 1:  Shipping Method integrated with a single Buy Now button.

The default shipping method is First Class/Airmail.  If you would like to specify a different shipping method, you must set up a separate "Buy Now" button for each option.  For example, if your product price is 19.95, and you want to charge 2.00 to cover First Class/Airmail charges, 7.00 to cover UPS Ground charges, and 16.00 to cover UPS Next Day charges, you would set up three separate "Buy Now" buttons for your web site.

     Here are the codes for the various shipping methods we offer:

1=USPS First Class/Air Mail  
3=USPS Priority/Global Priority Mail
4=UPS Ground (US only)
5=UPS NextDay Air (US only)
6=UPS WorldwideExpress
7=UPS 2nd Day Air (US only)
8=UPS 3rd Day Air (US only)

To specify a shipping method other than the default First Class/Airmail, simply add a fourth tilde-delimited field to the Item ID/Number discussed in Step 4 above.  To review, the following Item ID/Number specifies ProductID softco-001, LabelID 1, and Package ID 2:

softco-002~1~2

The following Item ID/Number specifies the same items, as well as Shipping Method 3:

softco-002~1~2~3

You can pick and choose any mix of shipping methods that you would like to offer your customers, and you can add new "Buy Now" buttons with new prices or shipping methods any time you wish.

Shipping Method Technique 2:  Shipping Method offered to your purchasers as a separate Shopping Cart item.

If you have set up a PayPal shopping cart, you can offer your purchasers the Shipping Method as a separate shopping cart item.

<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="SHIP[UPSG]">

Legal values are:

"SHIP[PRI]"	Priority Mail/Global Priority Mail
"SHIP[UPSG]"	UPS Ground (US only)
"SHIP[UPS3]"	UPS Third Day (US only)
"SHIP[UPS2]"	UPS Second Day (US only)
"SHIP[UPS1]"	UPS Next Day (US only)
"SHIP[UPSW]"	UPS WorldWide Express (non-US only)

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Click here to see a sample page of buttons and order forms.


If you have any other questions, please contact us.