I have spent all day on something that should only take a couple of minutes.
I need to add a subscription service onto a website, the user needs to enter their full name and email address as part of the subscription, paypal should then take the payment and redirect back to the site while passing the full name and email so accounts can be created.
I am at a loss here as their documentation is all over the place and conflicts with itself. How do I create a subscription button with the additional fields and get it all working.
And how the hell do I test it? I have attempted creating one with the subscription button on the paypal site but when the checkout is completed it doesn't go back to the site to create the fields unless you press the button and when you do there is nothing no post data no get data nothing!
You could try using PHP-Payment it allows you to redirect to a page upon success. https://github.com/phpfour/php-payment/tree/master/src/php/Rbs
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Okay so I've setup a website with a basic paid subscription using Paypal. Here's the general flow of things:
1) A person fills up a basic subscription form and click subscribe
2) They get forwarded to Paypal who handles the payment
3) User clicks on "back to website" button
4) Account gets activated and user is forwarded to splash page
The thing is that if the user decides to close the window instead of clicking "Back to website", then his account will remain locked even though he paid (and yes, I'm aware you can skip the "back to website" button, but my client wants to keep it).
So, what I'd like to do is basically implement a form that will query Paypal's REST api to check if the user's receipt number actually exists and if so, complete his subscription. The problem is that most of the users pay through credit card, not Paypal... so all they have is a receipt number.
I've searched through the documentation and I can't seem to find how to query Paypal's REST API using the receipt number. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I use the IPN service provided by PayPal. With this, I pass a custom field along with the transaction containing the user's account number (you could use receipt number as long as you have it stored). I have an IPN Handler script that receives the verification from PayPal that the transaction completed successfully. This script receives the custom field, which can then be used to locate the user's account and update their subscription status.
Well, I was wondering if it is possible to automatically logins the user in paypal everytime they checks out?
Given the scenario a new user registers in my site.
New User->Logins to paypal->get permissions(etc..)->approve->gets back to my site
So, everytime the user checks-out it automatically logins in paypal.
I would like to link his paypal account to his profile in my site thus easier check out
I saw the documents but it is just too much for me to comprehend.
It sounds like you are referring to reference transactions. With PayPal you can create a billing agreement, and you would save the billing agreement ID to the local user record in your database.
In the future when they are logged in and checking out on your site you can pull the billing agreement ID and pass that into a reference transaction request to PayPal. This will immediately process the new payment without any approval necessary, so you can simply display the order complete page to the user.
Their experience would be choosing their saved payment method, clicking to buy, and the complete page would show up immediately. No checkout forms or login (other than logging in to your site) necessary.
Depending on whether you're working with the Classic API or REST the specific calls would be different, but "reference transactions" and "billing agreements" are the terms you're looking for.
I'm trying to understand for a couple of days how is working the PayPal payment through IPN and all this things but I think my PHP level is not that high.
I am just trying to make a script like this.
Registered user on my website wants to download some content wich is allowed only for VIP User group and I need to add the BUY VIP function so… I set up sandbox, created Buy now button added to my website, created success and cancel page, created http://mysite/ipn.php page to recieve notifications the thing is that I'm not sure what should I write in ipn.php for execute next function after purchase:
UPDATE users set user_group='VIP' where id='$buyerid'
I've ran into a problem. Basically, I have a website that users can hire someone to tutor them. Each tutor has a small profile with a video, bio and rating. The user fills out a form with information such as their name, email and the most important one which is the date and timeslot (Dropdown) they want. When they fill out this information they can then click "Buy Now" which is a PayPal button I've setup. There are no variables here, each time slot is the same price all round.
The problem I'm having is I don't know how to collect the user information when the PayPal button is clicked. Can I pass this timeslot to PayPal who then return it to me? I can set up simple form that will send this information to me in an email, however I don't know how I can trigger that PHP script when the PayPal buy now button is pressed.
Any help? I've been Googling for a while, I can't seem to find anything! Maybe I'm wording it wrong. Anyway, hope you guys can assist.
I would save all of the info in your database prior to sending the user over to PayPal. That way you can include the invoice number (or record ID) in the invoice parameter in payment requests.
If you're working with Payments Standard the parameter is called invoice. If you're working with the Express Checkout API it's called INVNUM.
Hi you can use Ajax in this situation. The ajax will prevent the redirect of the form to paypal for awhile but executes another process in which you will save and capture the information of the form to your database. After the process the redirection to paypal payment method will continue.
You can view this good tutorial in here.
http://anytch.com/save-html-form-post-to-database-before-redirect-to-paypal/
I am currently developing an E-Comm site that uses Paypals express check out system. The express checkout system works fine, I send the payments amount, the user logs in to confirm the shipping details, and returns back to my page where I confirm it and the payment is completed. The main issue I am having is that I have the username (email) saved in the session. Once the user clicks checkout with paypal and confirms his/her paypal account, my session is cleared. So I cannot keep a record of who purchased what item (unless I use the users paypals email address which could be different from the one the user used on my site).
So my question is, is there any way that I can preserve the session state throughout this confirmation action? Or is there another way to keep the users information? is this a documented problem (I have not seen it anywhere)?
If any more detail is required let me know.
Thanks for your time.
No, once the user leaves your domain the session will terminate.
Instead you can store the email address in a table before user leaves your site and pass the ID of the inserted record to paypal. As this ID is a custom field it will be returned in the call back url once the user completes the payment. You can get the ID from URL and retrieve the corresponding email from database.
Even if your PHP session didn't terminate (there is likely a different reason for it closing), it still isn't a good idea to depend on the session being unmodified between the time the user leaves for PayPal and returns. Consider a user with multiple tabs that starts poking around your website in another tab before finishing Express Checkout.
Instead, store everything that is important to your checkout completion in a database, and pass a unique identifier through the Express Checkout process via the CUSTOM or INVNUM parameters. Those will be juggled through the checkout process. Once the callback returns to your site, you can very easily identify which "incomplete" order in your database it is referring to and mark it "paid."