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Workflow for taking a percentage of a payment (PayPal)

I'm implementing a business model where the service takes 10% of a fee. For example, the user lists a product for $100. The buyer purchases it. $90 goes to the seller, $10 is collected by the site. Does anyone know offhand if this is feasible with Paypal. In theory all the money could go into our PayPal account and then a $90 paymen...

Paypal Unsubscribe return url

Hi, I have created a paypal Unsubscribe button in Java , when user click on it and after login to paypal account and unsubscribes , the paypal posts on the notifyurl successfully and i am able to update my database.But i want to return to my site after unsubscription. But not able to do so. Is there any way so that i can return t...

PayPal send payment programtically

Is there a way using the PayPal API to make a deposit into someone's account behind the scenes in code? ...

setting tax amount in Active Merchant / PayPal Express Checkout

Hello, I need to know how to pass a tax amount to PayPal Express Checkout using Active Merchant and rails. Everything is working (completing transations) except I can't figure out for the life of me how to set the tax. Thanks for your help! ...

how to implement paypal API for ebay style application

hi I'm working on ebay style application, many users and each can set his paypal account for receiving payments. Another users can pay via paypal to his paypal account. I would like to use paypal api (soap) for realizing payments to sellers. But I didn't find a way how to send money to another paypal account via api. I can receive paymen...

paypal api - send money to any paypal account

Hi, is it possible to send money using paypal API to any paypal account (not just to API credentials owner). I know that it's possible to do that using IPN, but I need to use SOAP. many thanks ...

Encoding amount in paypal payment

I'm having trouble figuring out how to prevent people from editing the amount in my shopping cart with tools such as firebug. How do I make sure users can't edit the hidden field? Can I encode the amount before sending it to paypal? Thanks! Francois ...

Experience with billing systems

It would be very useful to have feedback on the various API and services that let you bill the customers, so it's possible to compare : Security; Quality of API; Commercial reliability; Number of languages that can use it; General usage of them; Ease of set up; Economic price; Technical price. I thinking here of course of Paypal, Goo...

Getting strack trace error and don't understand why

Hi I am trying to do PayPal IPN method. So I thought since I am doing asp.net mvc I can just make a method view in my controller like this public void IPN() { // IPN code } So I tried this all on local host made my own form to post some IPN variable stuff and it worked fine. I uploaded it to my server and used the IPN simulator fro...

PayPal doesn't send me all fields to return url

I've setup subscribe form for PayPal. ... <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://mysite.com/success/"&gt; <input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2"> ... Then I make a payment in PP Sandbox and click to "Return to Merchant" button. I expect: all transaction data in $_POST, such txn_type and so on I get: [merchantReturn_x] ...

Paypal Integration holding money

I'm building a site that requires paypal integration. The way it works is I have buyers and sellers, the buyer requests the item, and pays for the item, but the seller needs to accept the money first. So the money is held in limbo until the seller accepts it. Once accepted the money isn't transferred until the item has been received. C...

Paypal HTML integration problems (sales tax not showing for recurring payment)

I am using the Paypal standard (HTML 'API') to integrate Paypal to my website. I have managed to display 'subscribe' buttons for recurring payments, using HTML variables as specified in the Paypal documentation. However, there is one serious "show stopper" problem: I am unable to get Paypal to recognize sales tax amount for RECURRING P...

Paypal IPN question (integrating with backend processes)

I am using the Paypal standard to integrate to my website, using HTML form fields. I have enabled IPN notifications on my (sandbox) account, and the Paypal server is able to successfully call my website, with IPN data. I want to be able to respond to the following specific events in my backend processing (i.e. using custom server side ...

Quick and Easy Shopping Carts

Can anyone give me the 411 on shopping carts? I have a client that wants to sell gift cards on their website but I would like to find a quick-to-implement solution (5 to 15 hours). The only thing we would sell is gift cards (just one gift card in different amounts - they are gift cards for the client's restaurant) but we don't want to j...

PHP Paypal Class

Could anybody recommend a up-to-date class (or payment system) for handling paypal recurring payments with PHP? Thank you! UPDATE: I ended up using the PaypalNVP class by Peter Reisinger. Unfortunately, that was a very long time ago and I can't seem to locate it online (the readme and class files had no URL - just the name). If you c...

PHP Paypal intergration with instant feedback

Is it possible to get an instant response from a paypal transaction and do they have to leave your site to pay by paypal? I am working on a site where the user needs to make a one off payment so I have been looking for donation scripts, but most of them are pay for and the only one I found does not give an instant response http://www.ib...

Does HttpWebRequest send 200 OK automatically?

Background: I am implementing Paypal IPN handler. This great article on Paypal states that I am required to send a 200 OK back to Paypal after I read the response. The processing of IPN request is as follows: //Send the request to PayPal and get the response StreamWriter streamOut = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), ...

Question regarding the creation of an credit_card object on Ryan bates Active_Merchant intergration video

I was going through Ryan Bates' video on Active Merchant integration video Railscast #145 and my question was regarding the creation of the @credit_card method that he defines within the Order.rb method. def credit_card @credit_card||=ActiveMerchant::Billing::CreditCard.new( :type=>card_type, :number=>card_number, :verifi...

How to Add Tax to Paypal IPN Checkout

I've tried adding the "tax" field, however nothing tax related shows up in my checkout. How do I add the tax amount to my checkout for Paypal? ...

What is the correct term for online fund transfer services?

Services like PayPal, NETeller, Click2Pay, Moneybookers? ...