They do the exact method I'm looking to recreate on http://sellfy.com/
What I'm looking to do is be able to setup autopayment systems for people. I'm going to use the dynamic notification URL( notify_url ) in the HTML form code. But what I don't understand is how once a persons buys a product, the sellers account sends 5% of the transaction back to sellfy?
They probably don't send 5% back. Sellify is probably using Adaptive Payments, which has something called Chained Payments as part of it. It allows you to make a payment to one person, but take a cut yourself.
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I've puzzled by this question for quite a while, but never had the need for it. Now I do.
What I currently need is a Credit Card payment option for my website that does not rely on services such as Paypal. I want something like Name.com or Hostmonster.com have. You simply enter you credit card number, expiration date and the three little numbers at the back of the card. How can I achieve the same effect on my website?
I'll be programming the website in PHP.
Answers would be appreciated.
You need to signup to a payment gateway. It's a service that allows you to process credit card payments. I know you don't want to use PayPAL to accept payments, but PayPAL offer two solutions:
PayPAL Payments - That is the button and people pay through PayPAL
PayPAL Payments Pro (Payment Gateway). That is when you use PHP or anything else to connect to PayPAL with the credit card information. The customer never knows you used PayPAL, and they never leave your site.
When choosing a payment gateway these are the four most important things you should consider:
How easy is it to implement (PayPAL has a lot of documentation)
How much is the monthly fee.
How much do they charge per transaction.
How much do they charge to setup an account.
There are other options, and one of the most common is Authorize.net, but the is more setting up and a larger deposit to open an account.
Most accounts will require a background and credit check.
Well, you'll still need to rely on a Merchant Services company for card processing. There are many companies that boast an API that can then be accessed with PHP. One that I have recently learned of is Stripe. However, there are many competitors and you can research other companies further, but companies like Stripe will allow you to generate payments programmatically without having to leave your site to visit the black-box that is PayPal.
I'm currently creating a system that lets admins create events and allow individuals to register for those events. Each registration has a fee associated with it, which registrants pay using PayPal. When an event is created, the admin inputs the PayPal account for which the money will be deposited. I then charge a set price per registration as the fee for the service. Is there a way to automatically take my cut of the fee when the payment is submitted to Paypal?
I've looked at the Mass Pay option with PayPal, but that means all the money has to go into a central account and then get divided out from there (if I understand it right). I would rather stay away from all money going into a central account, as there gets to be a lot of liability involved there.
Now, I'm not 100% tied to PayPal, so if anyone else knows of another service that would work, I would be glad to hear about it. I'm sure someone else has run into this before...
Look into Paypal Adaptive Payments. It allows for payments to be sent to two parties.
I have a website where I need to reward users for their involvement by paying money into their paypal account. I have a paypal business account, and would like to know if it is possible to put money into their account automatically from just having their paypal account email address.
I am developing my website using php. Ideally, I would like to have a script on my server that when executed transfers money from my business account into their paypal account.
I am new to paypal, and having looked around I am getting confused as to all of the different APIs that are in use! MassPay keeps coming up but if possible I would rather I didnt have to pay the 2% charge on each payment - is there any other options?
The payments are not for goods or services and so could be classed as a personal transfer, would this eliminate any fees?
So my questions are:
1) Is this possible?
2) Which API is most suitable?
Thanks
Yes, it's possible but you're going to end up paying a transaction fee. I would recommend you do a batch process (that is, do one large payment request scheduled at a certain time of day) through PayPal's Mass Payment API.
You can read more about this API and how to use it here.
The way PayPal stays in business is by collecting these transaction fees. If it didn't collect them, it wouldn't be nearly as successful.
If you're looking at having more options on the transaction, including some ways to try and shift around who pays the fee, you may want to look at Adaptive Payments.
The best way is to generate a paypal button in the following URL:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_donate-intro-outside
and place it at your page... You'll still have to pay some fee (although it's a low one)
I'm working on a project where users will be allowed to send donations among each other.
I'd like to integrate it with Paypal instead of reinventing the wheel and building my own donation system, but due to the nature of the system, I will need to verify that a donation of X dollars was sent from person A to person B.
Is this possible with Paypal, or am I out of luck?
You will need to look at PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN).
Within the call to PayPal to handle the donation/payment, you can specify the URL for a "Listener", which is a script which will be contacted by PayPal with details on the payment, and can then authenticate that payment against PayPal to ensure that it is accurate/confirmed/not faked.
Within the data passed back to the Listener is the email addresses of the Payer and the Payee, along with the amount paid, fees charged, etc.
If you are acting as an intermediary to the two parties, and so long as the payment are made through the form/site you control, then you should be able to use the IPN to get details of those payments and then use that data however you wish to.
Hi is possible to split a paypal online donation to different paypal account letting user paying only 1 time?
i mean , user pays 30€ i would like to send 50% of them to 1 PP account and 50% to another PP account...
any idea guys? :)
You can use paypal's mass pay system after the payment has been made to the main account. You can get the data in and out using the API.
General overview docs:
https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchant/mass_pay
API docs:
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/mass_pay
The trick in a system like this, is trying not to get soaked on fees, giving too much money to paypal. Mass pay has no fees for the receiver, and low fees for the sender. Its also easy to process programatically.
The other way to do it would obviously be to just use the API and code it up to do the split and send the $ to each party using standard 'send a payment' though the API. But you'll wind up giving a lot more money to paypal that way, mass pay is usually the better choice.