Hi I'm creating a third party shopping cart using paypal for my client and i need retrieve some information after the payment is confirmed. I need to send an email to the seller with the product information like color, font-family, font-size, size of the product. But i have no idea of how can i retrieve the payment confirm information from paypal and then send to the seller this email.
Does someone knows how or just could give me a hint?
Thanks.
If you're not on wordpress, you can still use IPN data: have a read here: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/products/instant-payment-notification/
Note that Paypal's example code is not very good, and also that their IPN simulator is not currently working properly: Paypal IPN continually returns invalid from Sandbox
The PayPal IPN for WordPress plugin will make that very simple for you.
Just install the plugin and create a basic hook in your theme's functions.php file (or create a simple custom plugin file). The plugin has hooks so you can trigger based on any IPN, or based on the IPN transaction type or payment status.
Here is a link to the general dev guide and another link specific to the hooks available.
You could have the IPN solution working and sending an email within minutes, so then it's just a matter of building your email body the way you want.
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I used several plugins which enable to integrate paypal gateway and wordpress.
But I want to find a plugin which enable us to buy and comeback to same page with updated status.
For instance, he cancelled it or successfully paid it so that I can refer that response to that order.
How can I do this?
Easy Paypal Gateway, Wordpress Paypal not works.
I don't want static return url. Must back to same page with its transaction status.
I'm not sure what you're looking for that's special, but the most popular option for Wordpress seems to be WooCommerce, with their PayPal module: https://woocommerce.com/woocommerce-and-paypal/
I am not sure what this is called but here is what i am looking to do.
I am trying to make a php script that will create a link between our store account and paypal buyer, so that when they click our buy button it will process the payment without any future confirmations or user actions.
I have tried the paypal sdks and integration wizard no luck, Does anyone know of a working example of what i am trying to do?
Billing agreement(also called Reference Transactions) allows customer to agree the payment once on your website or app, then you call an API with the billing agreement ID to tell PayPal to charge the customer. Please see document here . You will need to contact PayPal to enable you to use Billing agreement, it's not easy to get approval:(
Integrating Paypal buttons are pretty straightforward.
Go to your merchant account.
Go to your Create Paypal Button page.
Choose whatever the button types you want. Configure it with Price etc.
Now just copy and paste the code generated.
It just works.
P.S
There is an option in your merchant account page to set the returning address from Paypal. You can set a returning page and catch all the transaction details via HTTP Post method when it is called by Paypal.
There is this Sandbox account type in Paypal which you can do a lot of playing with.
I am currently developing a WordPress plugin that allows users to accept paid guest posts. The scenario goes like this: someone visits the website of the plugin user, creates a guest post which is saved as pending and finally makes a one-time payment via paypal. Once the payment has cleared the post is published on the website.
Basically I need a solution where the website owner can specify just his or her email or merchant ID in the plugin options panel to start accepting payments.
The problem is I'm a little lost as to which paypal api to use and how to get started. There is a lot of information on the paypal website and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks
I would recommend using the Express Checkout API for something like that. Specifically, you'll be using SetExpressCheckout, GetExpressCheckoutDetails, and DoExpressCheckoutPayment as explained in that first link.
My PHP class library for PayPal will make those API calls very simple for you, and you could even take a look at my PayPal for WooCommerce plugin to get an idea of how to use the library within a plugin if you need to.
i have a client that provide a service on his website.he wants to automate the service orders.
the service has these steps:
1- user submit a form with request.
2- my client review the request, validate it and use the info in this request to :
3- login to another website
4- buy a product from this website using his paypal account.
5- downlad and send the product in email to the user.
i was able to automate all of this using curl.the only problem i have is the purchase process using papal.i didn't deal with paypal before.so i want to know if i can just submit the papal form on the purchase website using curl.or this will not work?
while searching i found something about papal IPN.but i don't know if my client have this IPN in his papal account or not? also, he does not want to give me his papal info. is there is anyway i can do this with fake paypal account to try it?
thank you so much.
First of all, sign up for a PayPal sandbox account: https://developer.paypal.com/devscr?cmd=_signup-run
It's a really slick system PayPal put together for developers to test out stuff.
Secondly, review the PayPal API's at:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_download_sdks
I believe all you need is the PHP Name-Value pair or Website Payments Standard interfaces.
IPN stands for Instant Payment Notification, it's a way for PayPal to tell you that a payment was made.
What you are looking for is either the PayPal NVP or SOAP interfaces.
I need to setup a payment method on my website that allows a certain user to pay another via two email address'. So essentially, user1 comes to a page, downloads an invoice and has the option to pay that invoice using a link which redirects to paypal with the prefilled details i.e. payeremail, receiveremail, amt, currencycode. Does anyone know which API call I need to make to do this? All I can really see in the API is for other users to pay my account which I already have setup for another function. Thanks in advance.
You need PayPal IPN, after the payment goes through you will receive following information https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_IPNandPDTVariables
Here is PHP handler for the IPN, http://www.boolcast.com/development/joomla-custom-paypal-ipn
You can also look at other sample code example on PayPal site.