Examples for coding against the PayPal API in .NET 2.0+?
Can anyone point me to a good introduction to coding against the paypal API? ...
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PayPal versus Amazon Honor System
I'm currently planning to integrate a donation system into a web page for a project that I manage. Currently, there are two services I'm looking at using - PayPal and Amazon Honor System. I want the system to be as easy-to-use - basically, if people choose to donate, I'd like them to have to do so in as few steps as possible and in a ma...
Which should I implement first, PayPal or Google Checkout, on my eCommerce website?
Paypal and Google Checkout will take some time to implement so I'm wanting to know if anyone in the community has installed them and has a recommendation on which to do first. We use the .Net environment. Verdict - Start with Google Checkout. Great customer support, Great multi-language libraries, Simple, fast web interfa...
Advice on mixing legacy ASP site with .NET 2.0
We've just been tasked with updating an e-commerce application to use PayPal's PayFlow product. The site was originally written in classic ASP except for the credit card processing portion which was a COM component. Our plan is to replace the COM component with a .NET 2.0 component. I'm looking for tips, gotcha, etc. before we embark....
Why are my PHP sessions dying? And why can't I restore them?
I have an app using PHP and the PayPal API. The basic way it works to get a payment is that you do a web service call to PayPal to get a token and then do a browser redirect to PayPal with that token for the user to pay. After the payment details have been confirmed, PayPal redirects back to the URL you originally set in the service call...
How do I stop users circumventing payment?
Hi I have a site that uses paypal to collect payments for electronically displayed data. Variables can't be passed with the URL through paypal (or I can't get them to work) so I have used cookies to pass the item number. However, a crafty user could, after the cookie writing part, enter the paypal redirect URL directly into the address ...
How many users will choose Paypal on an average ecommerce site given a choice?
Want to know how valuable Paypal is on an ecommerce site ($20-$80 average orders). Anybody want to run SELECT COUNT(*), PaymentMethod FROM Orders GROUP BY PaymentMethod for me? Any thoughts on what pecentage of orders we might lose if we dont have Paypal. My instinct is to say 'a lot of people will probably not order if they have to...
Paypal Website Payments Standard with a Ruby/Rails application
Hi. I would like to implement a payment solution with my Rails site using Paypal Website Payments Standard. (See https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_standard_home.html). I don't want fancy gateways, and I don't want to go through the hassles related to storing credit card information. I also want to use Paypal IPN for notificat...
Integrating PayPal checkout
I have a shop system that integrates PayPal in the usual way, i.e. the user is redirected to paypal.com to log in and confirm the payment after which the user is directed back at a confirmation page in my shop system. Now my customer is asking if the entire process can be run inside the shop itself. I have two or three ideas about this...
Has anyone found payment processor documentation very poor
Does anyone else find that the documentation of a lot of payment processors have poor or incomplete documentation as to how to use their API? Or it's just plain confusing? Recently I have setup both PayPal and Beanstream and found that both are either confusing or don't include full documentation. For example, in the BeanStream documen...
Recurring Payments in PayPal
Hi All, I am trying to use the Recurring payment API offered by PayPal. I have a scenario which I am not able to address directly. It goes like this. We have a website where we sell some services. Now the services are charged per user license. A user can buy/cancel user license in between. We want to offer the customer a recurring bill...
Integrating Paypal Into HTML Page
I have a client selling a t shirt. She wants a potential buyer to be able to choose size and color with a quantity option for each. I have found some code that tallies the order total, but does not have the quantity option. I have attached the code below. Can anyone steer me in the right direction on what to do with this? I am fairly n...
How can I charge a recurring monthly subscription fee for my website?
My business is setting up online billing using PayPal and Google checkout. I'm looking for the best way to charge a recurring monthly service fee for my website. My site is subscription based and I charge X amount of dollars per month. I want to bill the customer's credit card each month for that monthly fee. The subscriber to the si...
Can you force PayPal Payments Standard API to show credit card fields first?
I'm using PayPal Website Payments Standard. Whenever the user lands on PayPal with the variables I sent, it shows a PayPal Login form and at the bottom it shows "Don't have a PayPal account? Use your credit card or bank account (where available)." I want it to default to always ask for credit card and maybe say "Have PayPal? Use that!...
Paypal and reseller commission
I have a web site that is a customer to customer (C2C) service. Example, a user is looking for a hockey card of Gordie Howe and another customer wants to sell a Gordie Howe hockey card. If they sell the card 100$, I'd like to have 90$ that goes to the seller and 10$ that goes to me for providing the service (some kind of a reseller commi...
Why does this code only work when I use a break point?
See code below, for some reason it only works when I put a breakpoint on line 2 (*) is there some delay? Is it starting the next line before it finishes the 2nd one? dp.SSLCertStoreType = nsoftware.IBizPayPal.DirectpaymentSSLCertStoreTypes.sstPEMKey *dp.SSLCertStore = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("\cert_key_pem.txt...
How to Handle Cancelled Recurring Payments
I'm using Paypal to handle automated recurring payments for my website. Users pay to subscribe to my website so they can get periodic newsletters. So let's say a customer cancels their membership a few months later. They do this by logging into Paypal and cancels future automated payments. How should I update my website to reflect th...
How to create a secure credit card gateway using paypal / ruby on rails / active merchant.
I am creating a store using Active Merchant and PayPal sandbox right now. It seems to be working fine, but I don't think it is even remotely secure. I don't really know too much about HTTPS and how to implement secure connections. I am currently passing the credit card and billing information in the session (probably not the smartest i...
eCommerce GoogleCart PayPal eBay integration
Hi I'm looking to write a some code that can integrate with some of the major online processors. This will be a basic bit of code that depending on a condition will affect the sub-total on check out. I understand that I may have to code it differently for each payment process but is this possible generally speaking? I want to provide t...
Website Payment Pro outside US
My current online shop use PayPal express checkout (for credit card too) to charge users. Our surveys (and A/B testing) showed that they are willing to make am order in a fewer step and without going to Paypal website. We are based in Hong Kong so Website Payment Pro with DirectPayment can't be used. Do you any other solution that could...