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Anybody ever used PayPal Website Payments Standard with SESSION variables?

Note: Our site is built in PHP and uses MySQL databases. I already manage another site with shopping cart in its entirety using Authorize.net so please dont respond with suggestions to use another provider. A new product/service we are releasing is classified as "High Risk" to the merchant providers and they want to charge us out the a**...

How to validate PayPal account?

I want to integrate paypal to my website and ask users to enter paypal account for commission pay out. How can I check if their account exists on paypal? I prefer NOT to send them $0.01 or it's the only way to check account? It should validate it automatically while user sign ups to the website. ...

PayPal - Subscription Button Problem

Hi all, This is my first post here. I hope somebody could help me. I am facing a strange problem. My client created a hosted Subscription button and gave me following code to apply in our website: <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> <input type="hidden"...

Paypal IPN failures - IPNs sent to the following URL(s) are failing:

We are getting this message from paypal and payments are now failing (although everything was working fine for the last month) Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN). IPNs sent to the following URL(s) are failing: http://[www.OURCLIENTSURLISHERE]/shop/paypal/standard/ipn/ If you do not recogni...

How can I have Google Checkout charge a subscription every 2, 3 or more years (longer-than-yearly)? Can PayPal do this?

Is it possible (and, if so, how) can I have Google Checkout charge someone for a magazine subscription every 2 years (or 3 years or 5 years). The idea is someone pays for a 3 year subscription in 2010 and then is billed again for the next 3 years in 2013. How can this be done? If Google cannot do it, can PayPal? Thanks! ...

Magento 1.4 paypal bug

hi folks! i try to get the paypal payment run in my magento 1.4 but there is a serious problem with the workflow. after i select paypal and get routed to the paypal account to send the money you normally come back automatically into the magento shop to finish the order, but in my case magento tells you there is aproblem with the adress ...

paying for multiple items (at once) via paypal

I have a list of products that i'd like to add a "pay now" button to so that i can allow my customers to pay via paypal. I've gone through the documentation and can't find how to do this. I can add multiple items, but this is no good as i already ahve the list of items to process. I also need the checkout process to itemise the order, s...

Rails - Paypal security Question

I'm trying to process a payment for a transaction. Currently I'm redirecting to a paypal url in a controller's method and passing in the variables in the url. Paypal seems to convert this to secure it - https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=lUAK-18U7c_uxbs0wYsKTqcO7tDjb9M4O2A0hqd4gsKhEyhlC0xCxFabBL8&amp;disp...

Recurring Profile and Bundled Item

I have a subscription service that people pay monthly for, so I’ve setup a “Virtual Product” with a Recurring Profile. At the same time, I want to have it so they can add different one time products. To accomplish this I’ve tried creating a “Bundled Product” with all the different one time products and adding the “Virtual Product” to tha...

How to get past embedding a html form for paypal buttons asp.net

Hi, I have some experience of using paypal with an asp.net website, however this issue has me really stumped. Root of the problem: You cant embed the html form for the paypal button inside your page form. Original solution: Originally my website was using multiple aspx pages so I could simply arrange my form tags so that they weren't...

What do I need to know to build a charity website?

My friend is starting a microfinance website and he wants my help with the site development. Obviously I would want to get some knowledge in HTML and CSS, but I'm not quite sure what else I should learn. I'm not clear on the advantages and disadvantages of using perl, asp, javascript, php, etc. are. Also, I need to create a payment optio...

Unable to successfully decode paypal IPN

I am building a subscription site. At its current state, the user would be able to pay the subscription but my handler cannot handle the IPN correctly. Here's the flow: Signup -> Subscribe -> Pay -> Return to site -> My handler -> Home. The user cannot login until my handler activates his account from the database. Here's my code: <?ph...

Django, PayPal IPNs & User Names - concept issues

I'm trying to sell virtual goods using PayPal (already implemented Zong+) in Django. I decided to use django-paypal to handle the IPN for me (decided that IPN was the best fully automated option.) I've currently made a buy-now button using the PayPal button wizard on their website, ie it's secure and saved on paypal to protect against t...

paypal api processing transaction despite of wrong billing info and wrong credit card type.

paypal api processing transaction despite of wrong billing info and wrong credit card type. All it does is even though avscode== x or n a or z, it is seeing for ack==success and if yes the transaction is being processed. How do i stop this? i want it to check ack==success and avscode==y `$post_str = 'USER='.urlencode(PP_API_USERNAME).'&...

Is PCI Compliance required with Payflow Link?

I have tried calling PayPal themselves, and the rep on the phone didn't even know Payflow Link could work this way, so I don't trust his advice. All my searching has encountered mixed answers. I am building an ecommerce site using Payflow Link, where the CC processing is handled on Paypal hosted pages. However, I am consider implementin...

PayPal Website Payments Standard API

I assume the answer to this is in the PayPal documentation somewhere, but I've been reading it for two days and my eyes are beginning to whirl. For Website Payments Standard, I create a page on my site (let's call this page A) which contains a dynamically generated form which contains a bunch of hidden fields detailing the content of th...

PayPal error messages on PHP 5.3.1

Hi all, I'm integrating PayPal in an application written in PHP and running on PHP 5.3.1 (using Zend Engine 2.3.0). Every time I require a PayPal SDK file or use any of the methods it prints out an enormous amount of error and warning messages. I obviously want to keep error message reporting at the maximum level possible (at least for ...

Micropayment processing using Paypal or other payment processing service?

Currently, I use PayPal for payment processing. Almost 90% of the items are sold for $.99 and would like to use Paypals's Micropayment account, but PayPal states "support for Micropayments to merchants for US to US, GB to GB, AU to AU, and EU to EU transactions". My company is located in the US but the customers are very global. Does th...

PayPal IPN returning a shopping cart or order ID for post-processing

I have successfully posted my custom shopping cart to PayPal -- it processes the order just beautifully, and when the payment is received, it posts data back to the URL I specified in the config. The code is based on the library found here: http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2009/02/php-payment-gateway-library-for-paypal-authorizenet-and-2chec...

Online donations for charities

Hi all, I am doing a website for a charity and we would like to accept donations. We would also like to display the amount received to date. I wonder if you are aware of any systems such as PayPal Donations that provide both widgets: The Donate button The Total amount received to date. Thank you ...