I'm using Website Payments Standard account and I have integrated Add to Cart button and Subscription button in my website. Few payments were made by my clients. But upon downloading my transaction history, I cannot view/retrieve the Receipt ID for certain payments, no matter if it is through Add to Cart or Subscription. Few transactions shows blank field for receipt ID. Can anyone guide me in finding out the problem? Is it anything related to my Website Payments Standard account? Or anything related to my client's account?
The PayPal IPN variable reference states the following for the receipt_id parameter.
Unique ID generated during guest checkout (payment by credit card
without logging in).
Sounds to me like you must have some payments coming through via guest checkout and others coming through as actual PayPal payments, so those wouldn't have a receipt_id.
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we are trying to add a pre-approval paypal process to our website before a user can bid on any of our items for sale. We currently accomplished this using Authorize.net but want to now integrate paypal as well.
I have been doing some research and am trying to find out if paypal even offers such a solution. The main reason for adding this verification is of course to make sure an individual actually has the money to purchase the item, some items can range from $100-$100,000. Does paypal offer a pre approval process for those types of transactions?
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/adaptive-payments/Preapproval_API_Operation/
The Preapproval API gives your application permissions to trigger payments on a user's behalf without further approval (no login required to submit payments with a preapproval ID). There is no guarantee funds will be available when you submit this payment. A transaction with a preapproval ID could simply fail like any other transaction.
It sounds like what you're looking is the Authorization and Capture process, which is probably what you're doing with Auth.net, too.
With PayPal you can run Authorizations from credit cards directly (exactly like you do with Auth.net) and you can also do it with Express Checkout, which would be PayPal login payments.
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'm building functionality in which product payment is divided into two parts -
1. service charge
2. actual payment
service charge payment will be done thr' stripe api (as client wants this gateway)
actual payment will be done thr' any type of gateway as per user selection.
But, crucial part is, both parts of payment should be done on one click.
On one click, it should go to stripe and other gateway that user has selected.
Can it be possible?
If yes, what will happen in the case where one of the two parts of payments is successful and other one failes.
Where can I redirect success url for both types of payments? on same page or another page?
As card details will be given only once by user in one form and submitted, can these details remain secure while processing of two transactions?
I have thoroughly searched for this, but can't find answer.
Thanks in advance.
Assuming this is a credit card payment only (and not a wallet such as PayPal or WebMoney, etc) all you need to do is store the credit-card details at your servers. Just make sure you are PCI compliant for that.
In this case, you will charge the service fee via stripe and the actual payment via the 2nd payment gateway. Just make sure you refund one if the other failed. Also ensure that the user is well aware that he will see TWO charges on his card. I would advise showing that nicely in the invoice page.
So it's not that complex of a flow for stored credit cards, but if you lack the credit card data and let the user pick an online payment option such as PayPal, then you'll need to ensure this online payment is successfully completed before charging the service fee via stripe.
So in my website I have in-game features which you can buy
I have a miniature store made and paypal buy now buttons included
What is the best and most secure way of automatically giving users there in-game bonus. When they have paid through paypal you have an option to put in a link when the payment is successful and i could have a form so when they are on that link it adds there bonuses but it also means anyone could just go to that link and get the bonuses for free.
A couple of options (this sounds like Payments Basic)
Have them enter their PayPal account email address into their game account profile. When you get your IPN you match those up and issue the bonus
Add the custom field to your HTML buttons. Associate that value to their user profile in your database. When you get your IPN, match the custom field up and issue the bonus
I am doing paypal integration in my website in a section called stores where an user can sell his products from my store. And i am storing the paypal accounts of my sellers to pay him directly when customer purchase something from his store in my website. Is it possible to put my logo on the paypal checkout page where the seller email id i'm passing will not be mine(Since each sellers will have their own Paypal Business email id)?
Yes, you can make it using PayPal Express Checkout. No need for upgrading to Pro, and paying a fixed monthly fee.
When setting up the express checkout transaction, you have a parameter that tells PayPal which images to show for branding.
https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/ebook/PP_APIReference/expresscheckout.html#1144280
The parameter name is called cpp-header-image which make sure it's delivered through HTTPS otherwise the browser may ask the user is he/she want to see only the securely delivered content.
There is something called "PayPal Payments Pro", which allows you to have many options over a typical PayPal account. From X.com (a great resource for learning about the Paypal API Stack), I was able to pull the following link for you (which explains what you are wanting to do)
https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/products/paypal-payments-pro