Android Paypal One time Payment

Question

Hi All,

Does any one know, or is it possible to do one time payment, with paypal in android ?

Consider the senario.

• Buyer purchases installs free application.
• Clicks on paypal module and makes in-app payment, purchases feature successfully.
• Buyer deletes application. All information including the feature purchase enty in database is deleted.
• Buyer reinstalls the application.

Here is the catch, if he wants to use the feature he will have to do a re-purchase. Which I wann to avoid in my application. This is taken care in iPhone in-app purchase. That is if a buyer has already purchased an feature or in-app item, and if he trys to repurchase it (item has been set to one time payment), the in-app purchase transaction will succeed without the user actually having to repay for the item.

Is there an solution for this can anyone help.

Answer 1

Currently PayPal doesn't seem to support this, you'll have to implement approptiate logic with your own server side (register purchases in a table and query it before performing new purchase). All items in PayPal are 'consumable' to use Apple's terms.