I am developing a payment solution using the PayPal PHP REST SDK. Everything seems to work OK in the sandbox. I can make payments, and all the transactions show up on the dummy accounts for the seller and the buyer.
Now, I want to test with Payment Review, and have enabled this for one of my test users. According to this documentation
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/lifecycle/sb_payment-review/
all transactions initiated by this user, should be set to "pending", but this doesn't happen. Alle transactions go through as normal. I've tried setting the seller account to payment review as well, but also with no effect.
Another issue is that none of the transactions appear under "Sandbox transactions", even though they appear in the respective paypal accounts of the dummy seller and buyers.
Is there something here I'm missing, or are these features just not working for the REST api?
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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 a question related to the integration Paypal Plus to the shopping cart website in Germany.
I have done the integration follows these steps from here : https://developer.paypal.com/docs/paypal-plus/germany/integrate/.
For the testing sandbox account and sandbox api everything works fine. There are some payment methods show up.
However, when I changed to use the live account and live api. Only one paypal payment method showed up. I would like to expect more than one payment method in paypal plus like: paypal, credit cart, debit cart or bank transfer.
Here is the result when I used Paypal live API
But my expected result should be like that and work for Paypal sandbox test API
I am looking forward to your response and Thanks in advance.
this can also relate to the buyers billing address.
Based on the billing address country provided, buyers see PayPal's available funding sources for their country of origin
Most likely the live account is not enabled for this feature, which is not on by default. The account owner should contact PayPal's general customer support via https://www.paypal.com/smarthelp/contact-us to request it
If you are positive the account has the feature enabled, then you should ask PayPal's technical support to review the account: paypal.com/mts
I'm using the PHP-SDK to send REST requests to Paypal.
My transactions seem to succeed, both accounts get notifications, the seller getting "Notification of payment received" and the buyer "Receipt for Your Payment to xxxxx's Test Store" respectively. Both accounts' balances change according to the transaction. Yet there are no transactions shown in the transactions tab.
What's going on?
That's because they don't show up there (a recent change), only failed transactions show up there for debugging purposes.
You want to log into sandbox.paypal.com with your dummy buyer account to see your list sandbox transactions, it's that simple.
This question asked before but didn't got any answer.Maybe things have been changed.
When you click the Express Checkout PayPal button on any webshop, it redirects you to a specific paypal login link, for paying the order.
I have been searching high and low for 3 weeks for a simple paypal php curl script that logs you in from this step, and confirms the payment, but have not been able to find anything.
I found out it is not possible to use the API for this, so its gotta be done by CURL.
I'm asking for this because I run a dropshipping website, and would like to automate certain steps, like placing and paying orders. A working code for this would help not just me, but all looking to automate buying in some form.
Thank's!
You can't log the buyer into PayPal when you redirect them to the site. The buyer has to enter their own account credentials themselves.
If you wanted to bill a buyer without requiring they log into PayPal each time you would need to use billing agreements (reference transactions) through Express Checkout. If you set up a billing agreement with a buyer you can charge a previously successful sale to bill them again for a different amount.
You cannot do what you want with Express Checkout, especially since nobody will ever enter the paypal details on your website (that is the entire point of paypal).
You can use either preapproved payments (buyers preappove payments being taken out of their account up to a certain ceiling), or reference transactions (you reference a new transaction to an older transaction. PayPal will then use the billing details of this earlier transaction to bill the user).
Preapproved payments is part of Adaptive Payments. Documentation is at https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/integration-guide/APIntro/
You can find more details about Reference Transactions at https://cms.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECReferenceTxns
Note: Reference Transactions needs to be enabled on your account. This API call is not open to everyone due to the potential for abuse, so you may want to look into whether you're eligible for it before you start working on a full integation with it.
You can find more info here :https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Merchant-services-Archive/Does-Paypal-have-a-quot-Token-Payments-quot-concept/td-p/325794
Also google "token payments" as that is what you need and most payment gateways usually support them.
I'm just starting out with Paypal, so this is a newbie question.
I've been going through the instructions for setting up Paypal subscription service, but I think I'm looking at the wrong thing.
What I want to acheive is to get back some kind of response from Paypal so that I can update the database on my web site to mark a registered user as having paid. Basically I have a flag in the database that says if the user is subscribed or not. I want to ensure that the user is marked as paid so long as their Paypal subscription is maintained.
While the instructions linked above do say how to set up a button to receive a payment, there's nothing there about getting any data back from Paypal.
I know there are terms like IPN and sandbox that are related to what I'm trying to do, but I can't find clear instructions for how to get started on this process. I'm just circling around and not getting anywhere.
Where do I start on setting this up? Where is there a clear beginner's tutorial?
Also, I'm using PHP/Javascript/MySQL on my website.
PayPal's IPN service is what you want to use. I've used it myself to do just what you're looking to do.
Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is PayPal's message service that
sends a notification when a transaction is affected. Once IPN is
integrated, sellers can automate their back office so they don’t have
to wait for payments to come in to trigger order fulfillment. IPN can
send notifications for these transactions:
Instant payments, including Express Checkout and direct credit card payments
eCheck payments and pending, completed, or denied status payments
Pending payments
Recurring payments and subscriptions
Authorizations
Disputes, chargebacks, reversals, and refunds
You can also view notifications on PayPal’s IPN History page and
resend them if you need to. As PayPal’s interface for handling
purchase confirmation and server-to-server communications, IPN can
also be used to manage and customize a variety of APIs and
communications, including:
Customize your website's response to customer purchases in seconds
Track customers via IPN "pass-through" variables
Notify sellers who deal mostly in software downloads and other digital, online goods
Track affiliate sales and commissions
Store transaction information in your own database
For more about IPN:
Technical Overview (link to new html version of docs on developer central)
Instant Payment Notification Guide (PDF)
Code Samples
I'm not sure if its the same thing, but I just setup my friends website with Express Checkout, and I wanted to add all paid orders to an orders table in my database.
After I call SetExpressCheckout, and the user is returned to my site after going through the purchase flow on Paypal's side,
I used the information from GetExpressCheckoutDetails.
Then, if DoExpressCheckoutPayment
is successful (also called from the "callback" page) I then do the appropriate work in my database as far as logging the order details. For you in this case, it could be updating a record for the user in the database.
Hope that helps a little.