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Limiting # Of Sales Automatically With Paypal?

by Zeus66
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I know there's gotta be an easy way to do this, but it's never come up in my business before. Someone help me out here please...

My core business is selling my info products, so the more the merrier. The last thing I want to do is limit sales! So this has just never come up before.

But I'm launching a month-long coaching offer soon to a very limited number of people (15 max). I need to be able to set up a payment system that will automatically stop allowing payments to be made after the 15th sale.

I use e-junkie and Paypal for my other stuff, so ideally the solution I follow here will involve one or both of these. There must be a way to do this within Paypal, right? I just can't seem to find it on my own.

The coaching starts on Feb. 1, so I need a quick solution here please. I can always keep a close eye on it and cut it off manually, but since I'll probably do a WSO on this there might be some overseas Warriors who jump on it and it could well go over 15 while I'm sleeping... or trying to sleep in my case. That's another story.

Anyway, any help you guys can offer will be most appreciated!

Thanks,
John
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Why not use e-junkie's Inventory Control? Just set the "Limit product sales to" field to 15 and that should do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Um... Duh! Thanks Dan. See, there was this forest in front of me. And, like, I just didn't see that tree. LOL
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    • Profile picture of the author John Atkins
      Thanks Dan, I've been looking for that myself. Just a quick question if
      you don't mind.

      Will it display the amount of copies left to the users in the checkout?

      Cause that would be very great since the buyers will see the actual amount
      of copies left themselves...

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        Originally Posted by IM Headlines View Post

        Will it display the amount of copies left to the users in the checkout?
        I don't know. You'd have to ask e-junkie on that one. If you try to add an out of stock item to your shopping cart, it won't let you. So, it does do an inventory check when you click the button, so I would think there ought to be a way to grab the available quantity as a variable and display it on the page before they try to add an item to their cart. But, whether such a feature can be implemented on an e-junkie site, I don't know.
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      • Profile picture of the author FrontpageContent
        Originally Posted by IM Headlines View Post

        Thanks Dan, I've been looking for that myself. Just a quick question if
        you don't mind.

        Will it display the amount of copies left to the users in the checkout?

        Cause that would be very great since the buyers will see the actual amount
        of copies left themselves...

        Thanks
        Make a little PHP script to update a text file on your server with the amount left.

        The php script would be on your thank you page...

        and the text file with the number left can be displayed anywhere you want with a simple include
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