I have been looking everywhere for a solution. Hoping someone else has a solution.
Here is the scenario, I use ClearCheckbook.com to keep track of the inflow/out flow of my accounts. I use their API to add transactions when I get a Paypal IPN I have a script that creates the transaction in clearcheckbook.com. It works great from when I receive money. However if I pay with my paypal account or more commonly when I use my paypal debit card, it doesn't notify me. I would like to be able to do the same, where I have some sort of webhook/notification that. Any Ideas?
At this time, our Webhook and IPN systems do not support notifications for purchases (send money or debit card purchases). Both of these systems only support notifications for payments being received into your PayPal account. The only exception to that is the Payouts API, which is technically considered sending money to other accounts. The Payouts API is supported by our Webhooks system but no other purchase (send money) transactions are supported by our Webhook or IPN systems as of now.
An alternative option would be to use our Sync API to get your account reporting data. You could then implement a solution to parse that data and use the ClearCheckbook.com API to add the purchase transaction data into their system.
Here is a link to our Sync API for further information on how to use that API.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/sync/
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I am having a very hard time figuring out whether it is even possible, but here is the task I want to do. Whenever an invoice that is created by my merchant account, I want PayPal to send a webhook to my webserver notifying that the invoice has been paid for. I can find full documentation on how to do that for simple payments, but there is literally nothing documented on how to do that with an invoice.
Instant Payment Notification (IPN) can be used for this.
When a PayPal invoice is paid the PayPal server will POST transaction data including the PayPal invoice ID and any custom invoice ID you supply with the original invoice. That way you can automate procedures based on the transaction data.
IPN works with all payments, refunds, disputes, etc. on your account. It's a very useful tool.
I am looking for information on how large resellers collect payments and pay the people who sell on their site. (e.g. Redbubble.com, a company that pays artists a commission for their work)
Specifically, I am looking for different solutions that cover a few key functions at minimal cost (like Paypal fees)
Ability to take payment from credit cards and paypal (others a benefit)
Track sales for each merchant as payments are processing
Collect payments in central account
Payout all processed payments on a monthly basis
P.S. I imagine there are a few ways to do this, I am hoping to gain some insight on what solutions have been proven.
P.P.S. This is not a technology specific question. Whatever APIs or third party solutions you know of are fair game.
Thanks for your knowledge!
Try PayPal adaptive payments.
Paypal Adaptive payments
You can also try Stripe to collect funds to one account and to trasfer them to third party acccounts but this only works in the US.
Stripe Payments
You could use the Adaptive Payments API and that would allow you to split the payments up among multiple receivers in a single transaction in real-time. If you go that route the API calls that you'd be interested in are...
Pay - This setups the actual payment and the receivers on the payment.
SetPaymentOptions - This allows you to provide more details like items, shipping, etc.
ExecutePayment - This actually processes the payment in the system after it's been setup with the previous calls.
PaymentDetails - This obtains details about a completed transaction.
Preapproval (possibly) - This allows you to get a Preapproval key for a user that will allow you to trigger payments on that users behalf at any time in the future with the use of the preapproval key.
PreapprovalDetails (if you use preapprovals) - This obtains details about an active preapproval profile.
To get all of that working in the live environment you'll need to submit an application through your PayPal developer account to obtain a Classic API App ID. For development on the sandbox there is a global App ID that can be used.
Another option would be to take payments on your site using any PayPal product like Payments Standard, Express Checkout, Payments Pro, etc. and have all the money come to your account, and then use the Pay API to distribute those funds out to people accordingly. This could be automated with an IPN solution and possibly the use of a CRON job on your server.
This is the method I like to use, and I typically go with a full Payments Pro / Express Checkout integration for payments on my site and then I distribute via the Pay API within an IPN solution or CRON job like I mentioned.
Im new in PayPal and I just want to ask, what is functional diference between API calls dononreferencedcredit and direct payment?
I understand it, that both send money to credit card, is it correct?
EDIT:
Is it possible to send money from my paypal account to credit/debit card or bank account of someone else using Paypal payments Standard? Or is it possible using PRO version? Exists any API or anything else for it?
DoDirectPayment takes money from a card and DoNonReferenceCredit issues a credit to a card.
In most cases you'd be more interested in DoDirectPayment and RefundTransaction, as the RefundTransaction API call will refund whatever type of transaction, charged via whichever funding source (be it card, bank, PayPal balance, et cetera).
DoNonReferencedCredit would only apply for a limited set of use cases; e.g. if you wish to disburse funds directly to someone's credit card. However, even this can already be handled by the MassPay API call where MassPay disburses it to the PayPal balance of the receiver, and the receiver can do with these funds as they please.
To me it seems that dononreferencedcreditissues credit to a card, while it's not being referenced in the original transaction. See this page for more information.
DoNonReferencedCredit is definitely the way to go if you do not want or do not have a reference to the original transaction. PayPal accounts do not allow NonReferenceCredits by default, you will have to contact business support to have this option enabled on your account.
You will receive the following error if NonReferenceCredits are not enabled on your account.
"Invalid merchant information: 10002-You do not have permissions to make this API call"
I am using the adaptive paypal payment console here: https://apigee.com/console/paypal to make payments to people. I can't find a way to send money out to individuals without granting them permission (from me). I want to be able to send out payments to people automatically when they request it. How would I do this?
You mean you would be the sole 'sender', sending money to different PayPal recipients?
Simply use the MassPay API. This is not part of Adaptive Payments but rather the normal PayPal API's.
If you use Sandbox, you can request for MassPay to be enabled on your Sandbox account by filing a ticket with PayPal Merchant Technical Services at https://www.paypal.com/ or starting a thread in the appropriate forum at https://www.x.com/ (PayPal's developer community).
If you use the Live PayPal site, you can call / email PayPal Customer Service to get it enabled on your Live account.
For the API documentation, see https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_nvp_r_MassPay
I'm looking to implement a very simple Paypal integration whereby I can enter a valid Paypal Email address (recipient) and a dollar amount, and click "Pay." Ideally, it would send the money from my paypal account automatically via my API key.
I currently have Mass Pay set up with PHP, and it's working fine, except that it charges me 2% on every payment, and doesn't pass back the Transaction ID. It also kinda seems unnecessary since I don't need to pay multiple people at once.
Since I only need to do one transaction at a time, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a simpler Paypal API for single outgoing transactions from my account.
I've been reading the documentation all day and I've yet to find what I'm looking for.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
PayPal has sample codes for integrating various PayPal features on it's website. This includes PHP take a look at the list of features and I'm sure what you are looking for is there.
Also from the paypal site:
PayPal receives the MassPay request and returns a response indicating
success or failure. If PayPal returns a successful response, then
PayPal processes the payments and, if you have Instant Payment
Notifications (IPN) enabled, PayPal sends a notification to the Notify
URL specified in your account profile. If you do not have IPN enabled,
you can view the details of the MassPay transaction in your PayPal
account.
This implies that in the case of mass pay you need to provide a URL where paypal sends payment notifications. Your program can probably check this url to figure out whether a payment has been made or not, I would suspect this would be the case for all payment integration. That being said I would print_r the the response from paypal, I'm sure something like a transaction id will probably be in there. In the case of DoAuthorization it does return the transaction id
In the case of mass pay it does return the transaction id if IPN is enabled