I need a flow where I can login once to my web application with paypal to save it as a payment method, and I can process the payments every time the user clicks the purchase button without having to login at every purchase.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/ , paypal support provided me the following section but I can't find the flow I require.
Additional information:
I plan to use laravel so I don't know if I would need the paypal php SDK.
and in the front VueJS
For Future Payments, also called Reference Transactions, the business owner of the PayPal account should contact their PayPal account manager or PayPal's general business support via https://www.paypal.com/smarthelp/contact-us , to explain the business need for the feature
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We currently have a website that uses eWay token payments and setup Auto Order for customers. They can manage what items are in the auto orders and at what frequency the orders will be placed.
After the first order we can save the users 'Token' with eWay and charge their card at each instance.
We would like to add in the ability to pay with PayPal, but cannot see a similar feature where future orders can be placed without the user interacting.
The issue is that the price may differ from original payment, as discounts for the item may change or the user could add in other products to the auto order. So we don't want to have a repeat purchase setup in PayPal, rather automatically charge the users account when needed.
Been looking through paypal API docs and nothing is jumping out as the correct way to proceed.
We have tried payments through eWay to PayPal however they are not supporting paypal through their gateway anymore so are not much help.
Our website is PHP, Mysql driven and we currently use PayPalExpress checkout API for single orders.
For PayPal, the receiving account needs a feature called "reference transactions". This is not enabled by default in the live environment (though it is in sandbox). It requires business approval, so the PayPal account owner should contact PayPal's general customer support or an account manager (note: not technical support) to discuss the business need for the feature.
Once approved for the "reference transactions" feature on a live business account, PayPal can guide you on which API to best integrate to make use of this. Something like v2 or v3 vault and that API's payment tokens are a possibility that sounds exactly what you are describing, though there are other (older/legacy) APIs that use something called a "billing agreement" as what's effectively a token as well.
I have website on which I want to sell subscriptions. Here is the scenario:
In the pricing tables there is button purchase. When user click on the button I am sending him to the form where he can enter his details (name, email, password) . When visitor click on the submit button his account is created and I want to redirect him to the pay-pal page, where the user can make the payment.
Can anyone point me to some article on pay-pal page where I can read instructions how can I do that, and which model/api/gateway/whatever I should use for that? I know how to create subscription buttons, but using them doesn't seem to fit in my scenario-flow. Please note that I need help to FIND information how this can be done, I will find my way with the coding.
PayPal supports multiple ways to sell subscriptions.
You can use one of these depending on type of complexity you can handle and features you want:
PayPal WPS Subscription Buttons
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables/#recurring-payment-variables
This is a button integration, you can specify your subscription terms and PayPal will take care of making recurring payments. You can also maintain inventory, profile & loss tracking. This will require very less coding effort from your end.
API Integration: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/billing-plans-and-agreements/
This is an API integration: Here you need to create a Plan and redirect the buyer to paypal to get buyer's approval. Then you can do recurring payments via API calls. You will need to maintain a secure database of approval ids, buyer details and the agreement details. Also you will need a daemon which should call PayPal apis on subscription dates.
You can also refer to this guide to get more info on different flows supported by paypal: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/directory/
I want my PHP web application to have the ability to save the user's PayPal details in their user account.
When they go to purchase items, rather than going through the standard PayPal form, it will automatically grab the user's PayPal details from their user account, and make the payment directly from my website. There is definitely a way to do this, as I have seen this feature on sites such as Freelancer.com
Thanks for the help! :)
No, you don't need Payments Pro for that. That would only be if you want to do it with direct credit cards. What you're after in general is called Reference Transactions, and when done with PayPal Express Checkout it uses Billing Agreements.
You'll use Express Checkout and/or Payments Pro (optional) to process an original authorization or sale transaction. Then, you can send that ID you get back in that original transaction along with a new amount in the DoReferenceTransaction API and that new amount will be instantly processed without any redirection or further authorization required.
I am trying to integrate Stripe on a Symfony2 project, and the only payment method I see on their documentation is the "Pay with card" button https://stripe.com/docs/checkout which creates an embedded popup on my project. But the problem is that I need the users to insert their credit card number on Stripe's website, just like Paypal does. Is there any payment method that Stripe provides, and get all the user's informations from a form that is on their website?
Thank you.
Stripe doesn't offer a redirection to its site to collect card details. (source)
In most instances, buyers don't even know they're using Stripe to pay.
To collect card details and turn them into a token, you can either:
use Checkout, a premade form with some customization options, or
make your own form using Stripe.js.
If neither of these is an option for you, you can check the list of Stripe third-party integrations to see if something fits your needs.
This is now possible.
Stripe customers are now able to use Client-only Checkout feature which is currently in beta. Flow is the same as with PayPal - users will be redirected to Stripe-hosted checkout website.
Directing customers to Stripe to make payments online
im building a site where 2 user groups exist: sellers and buyers. The buyers buy stuff and should pay to the sellers via PayPal.
So, its not a kind of a web shop where users are paying directly to me ( as a website owner/online shop), BUT TO THE OTHER USERS (sellers). So i need to forward a PayPal transaction from one user on my site (buyer) to the other one (seller).
I read some PayPal API Descriptions, but its assumed there that i want to process the PayPal Payments to my PayPal account, what's not my case.
An idea would be that sellers pay to me, and i then pay to buyers, but that's not what i want to do.
So , what I want is: the buyer should process the PayPal payment directly to the seller's PayPal account, and i should then receive the payment confirmation and inform the seller about it.
Does anyone have an idea, expirience or suggestion with this stuff? Thanks in advance!
You have a lot of options for how you can handle that.
One, you could use the Express Checkout API to build the checkout system, and you'd use the Permissions API (optional) so that users can easily grant your application permissions to make API calls on their behalf. Note that users could also do this manually through their PayPal profile until you get the Permissions part integrated.
To get your payments, you could have your users create a preapproval profile using the Preapproval API. This will allow you to submit payments on their behalf automatically at any time. As such, you could use the preapproval key within Pay calls directly in the checkout flow or within IPN (which is what I would recommend) to submit payments to yourself from the user's account.
Another option is to use a parallel payment within Express Checkout. This would handle splitting the payment for you automatically between the seller and yourself, but the buyer would see that split during checkout.
Another option would be to use the Pay API for the checkout which would allow you to create a chained payment. This is the same as a parallel payment except that it hides the split from the buyer, and you could actually delay the payment to secondary receivers if you need to for any reason.
Hope that helps.
if you have a buy now button or similar, use the sellers' email address as below
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="sellers#email.com">
and it will pay the user with that email address. If that's not their paypal address, it will prompt them to either sign up for paypal to receive or add it to a current account.
Then use PHP mail() or your CMS/Admin system to notify you when the successful payment page has been loaded after a referral back from Paypal.