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How does Etsy (a website collective for sellers of creative products) know the payment was made through Paypal? Is it possible with PayPal Express Checkout to use my accounts API, but send the payment to another account, purely by specifying the accounts email?
When you buy something from Etsy, the payment goes straight to the seller. It appears Etsy use PayPal Express Checkout to achieve this, using its own API details (i am assuming). As soon as the payment is made, Etsy is aware of this. It removes the item from sale and sends you a confirmation email. How does Etsy do this when the payment goes directly to another account?
As far as i can tell, PayPal will only send the payment to the account for which the API is linked to. When you make the first call to setup the Express Checkout with Paypal, is there a way to pass through the email address of the account you actually want the payment to go to during this process? I cannot seem to find this field anywhere. Or maybe it is done in an entirely different way. Anyone have any ideas how this process actually works in Etsy ?
Notes: I know that when you setup a seller account in Etsy, you only have to give your paypal email address that you want the payments to go to, not give them any API access of any kind. I have tested this.
This is all in the context of setting up a website that essentially does the same thing, allowing a sellers to have their own mini shops on our site. The payment needs to go directly to the seller, and we need to confirm payment has been made by the buyer. I dont want the sellers to have to setup anything in the PayPal account or anything like that. So if you have any other ideas/suggestions how i can achieve this, I would love to hear them.
it knows this because of the success callback url.
On how to get confirmation of a transaction between two other parties, look at this question
So I guess not with express checkout, but certainly with Instant Payment Notification.
The only way I can think of doing this with Express Checkout is if each receiving party has a separate merchant account. As one answer by netom in this question
I don't believe Etsy uses Express Checkout, but rather, uses PayPal Adaptive Payments.
Using Adaptive Payments, you can change the receiver of the funds simply by specifying a different email address for the primary or secondary receiver.
See also my answer at Online payments for a middleman
As for the Etsy confirmation; since Etsy is the one making the API calls the PayPal - and only changing the receiver on a per-transaction basis - they can just specify an ipnNotificationUrl in order to be notified via PayPal IPN whenever a transaction completes.
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I'm using a custom php Paypal nvp API for express checkout.
When people pay with their paypal account I have no problem in my php script, I insert the order, order details and I send the email to the customer. When people pay with their credit card without paypal account I don't receive the transactionid.
The strange fact is that when I use the sandbox, I generate a fake visa I do the payment, in my database I have the transaction id and I receive the email.
Someone had or is having my same problem?
There are different ways to manage payment with and without account?
For both I'm checking the payment status = Complete.
Happy to help your query,
Firstly, PayPal NVP is deprecated implementation. There wouldn't any support for new merchants who willing to add PayPal as a payment option.
Please go through the below recent products which run on REST APIs. I suggested two options of accepting payments so, hence choose the best one suits you.
Standard Integration Link.
Advanced Credit & Debit Card Link.
Thanks.
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I want to integrate Paypal Recurring Payment, so that I can get Payment from my customers on regular basis, I checked there are several methods,
Paypal Subscription Button (xclick-subscriptions)
In this method, I tried both Hosted and Non-hosted buttons, But I don't want that user redirects on Paypal completely (Paypal should open in Browser window or Popup),
How can I achieve this?
Paypal NVP/SOAP API
I tried this API with checkout.js, but it is deprecated now, don't want to use it any more,
EDIT: also I can created agreement with Payment Payment method, but when tried to pay with Credit Card, it shows me DPRP is disabled for this merchant, after a lot of research i found that for Card, Payment Pro must be enabled for merchant account, and it costs around $30-35/month, don't want to Pay this much amount,
Paypal Billing Plan and Agreement API
I tried this API, and faced the same issue just like the NVP/SOAP API (DPRP is disabled for this merchant)
Paypal Payflow
I tried this API, It provide a different login called Paypal Manager, But when I tried to complete my profile, but it is asking $10 for enable Recurring/Subscription Payment,
Apart from above these, You can suggest me good method which suites my
requirement.
The only way that you can get or the product that available for Recurring Payment for the merchant in India is the option 1 (Paypal Subscription Button (xclick-subscriptions) and option 3 (). But option 3, it needs to be specific.
Option 3 only allowed if you set the payment_method = paypal and not credit_card.
As far as i know, the option 2 using checkout.js are not compatible yet with Recurring Payment.
I have an issue right now that is killing me, I have implemented several payment options but never used paypal, I don't know why is it so complicated.
The website already exists and wasn't developed by myself.
I don't know the ammount of the order it is dynamic, so the "create payment buttons" on the paypal website doesn't work for me, at this point i developed a solution using
PayPal developers
But it turns out that i only have the option to pay with a PayPal account or register a PayPal account, I do not want to force customers to do this, it has no sense. is there any relatively easy solution out there using the same PayPal API?
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The whole site code is in PHP so i need the solution in this language
As you have mentioned that you are aware of one payment method i.e. Express Checkout ( in which user needs to have a valid Paypal account) so the other method which I think you need is the Direct Payment (i.e. a user can pay with credit cards directly without any Paypal account) API.
For this direct payment api you need to enable Website Payment Pro WPP , here you can get info about WPP.
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.
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ok heres my problem, im creating a site where people sign up first then pay straight after, my problem is what if the customer who signs up uses a different card to pay so for example, his wife. im trying to work out how to match the sign up info and the payment info without having to store the card details and get an ssl cert.. i need this so i can tell if they paid.. im writing it in php, it currently sends me an email when they sign up rather than straight into a database, any help?
Simplest thing that comes to mind would be to have options on the payment screen that let you:
(1) Use the billing info you supplied during registration
(2) Specify the name as it appears on the card (as most sites I've ordered from include)
Does this answer your question?
If you are concerned about matching the account to being paid if they use a different name, you most likely have some kind of $Session going on I would think. Use the user's login information from the Session() and then you can tell.
We use Authorize.Net for our payment processor. They have two different APIs which give you different levels of control (AIM - Advanced, SIM - Simple). From your description of not desiring a SSL Cert, SIM would be the best way to proceed.
We have designed our system to collect as much information as possible from the customer and then pass (via POST) to AuthNet's SIM method where they only need to enter in their card-specific information (number, expiration date, and CID). If the transaction is successful (and also in some failure cases), they notify us by a pre-defined 'silent-post' transaction and also redirect the user to a 'relay url'. We provide AuthNet with an order/invoice number as part of our original post data, so we can use it in their silent post to match up their payment with the appropriate order.
The SIM interface has worked well for us over the years and we now have it tweaked via CSS so that it closely resembles our site despite being hosted elsewhere, saving use far larger PCI-DSS compliance issues by doing everything locally.
im trying to work out how to match the sign up info and the payment info without having to store the card details and get an ssl cert
In that case the best advice is to use something like PayPal, Amazon Payments, or Google Checkout. Other than that, your question was a bit hard to decipher.
i need this so i can tell if they paid.. im writing it in php, it currently sends me an email when they sign up rather than straight into a database, any help?
Most 3rd party payment processors (PayPal, Google, Amazon), provide a way of checking payment status. Most also offer pinging a callback when the payment status changes.
PayPal IPN
Amazon IPN
Google Notifications
Many credit-card processing options will send a response to your server containing crucial information about the user that you can use to verify that they have successfully paid. For example, PayPal has an IPN (Instant Payment Notification). You can use the data returned in this to automate a process on your server that states the user has paid.
My advice is to contact whoever is processing your credit-card transactions and ask what options they provide for relaying information back to your server to verify which users have suffessfully paid for the products/services.