I have a prolem with PayPal, maybe anyone has experienced the same problem and knows the solution.
I'm using VirtueMart that has built in 2 PayPal payment methods Legacy and API. I'm using Legacy.
I read how to set up VirtueMart for PayPal (before that I had done it myself because it's very simple), only put the email, rest are optional.
The result I want to get on the PayPal page is let customers pay without registering - but I can't get it working. I'm always getting Log-in or Register.
I read the manual for PayPal - it says for Business accounts, like mine, there's a radio button Account Optional that has to be ON. I have it - but it still doesn't display Pay without Registering.
So, maybe someone can help me out with this one :)
The problem is the Country, as far as I could figure out. Paypal lists my country in the official Manual - but it's still not avaliable.
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I'm trying to let my customers get recuring billing membership on my website based on this tutorial.
The button work, evverything is fine, except one thing. I need to validate that paypal really went successfull, to prevent anyone to go directly on the success page and get free membership. I noticed that it return a token=VALUE data to the success / cancel redirect.
I cannot find any $_POST or any others $_GET than that and I wonder, nor anything that could solve this in the Paypal doc (which changed a lot since last time I used it).
How can I check if the membership really went trought paypal using this token=1RXXXXXXXXH484112Y.
The return of such an integration may never happen. Reliable notification that a subscription has been created can only be done with a separate, server-side integration.
For the old HTML subscription button integration in the tutorial you reference, you can implement the old Instant Payment Notification (IPN) service.
The current solution would be to use a smart subscribe button with server side API calls to create the subscription and activate it -- with this, your server immediately knows it has been activated (because it did so itself and received the response). You can find some details on that solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63908112/2069605
so I need to ask a question, I need to setup a simple paypal express checkout system, that one can allow users to change currencies, and two can then update the page with the updated currencies.
Then I need a way for me to get the order information. As I will be selling website templates so I need a way for me to get their email address, so I can then email them with the link to the template file download.
So my question is what data do I get if I set up an express checkout system. And what code do I need, Do i need to create a database to get the returned data back from paypal? Or do I just get an email or can i see that when i log into my paypal account and check orders and see their details that way, but the main important detail i need is their email address?
Can I also say that this is the first time I have looked into express shopping carts. So I am a complete novice in this field, So I will struggle with the coding aspect. But I think it is the route I need to go down.
Also I want to make it all in php as well. But also I don't want to use ready made systems. I just need the back-end code so that I can then just implement it into my current design. Not sure if paypal give you the code when you click the express shopping cart option in All tool section. I did notice though it redirects to a page that lists many partner sites. I couldn't find anywhere for any implementation advice or tips or code.
EDIT: Also I know I will also need to use either IPN or PDT but the documentation I read is highly confusing and just is making me unsure if I can even set a system up. I also read that you should implement both systems, but I also read that that had a risk of doing the payment twice. So yeah i am kinda a bit unsure how to even go about implementing a system I need.
Thanks in advance.
I use payment via paypal and I need the customer to enter secure payment information on my webpage.
After reading tutorials, I need to set action to paypal => "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" and the customer to complete their data on paypal website.
Is it possible to have customers enter card data on my own website? Can you offer any advice or manuals on how to implement this?
Thanks. Sorry for my English
Is it possible to have customers enter card data on my own website?
Yes it's possible. Is it advisable? Not if you don't have to.
If you are passing the user to PayPal to complete payment, there is absolutely no reason for you to collect the CC data on your own website. All you do is add to the customer's risk as well as your own (since there are certain legal ramifications if you screw something up).
If what you are asking is how can you do the entire process on your own site, then that's a different answer and a pretty involved one. PayPal has options for this with different plans and each of those options has plenty of documentation on how to setup and configure the process.
As #butlerblog mentioned, there are different levels of integration for ecommerce. If you truly want to stay away from paypal but are considering your other options for third party integration, you can check this site to start getting an idea of how involved with ecommerce you want to get.
I'm designing a database system, which sells courses to students. This is all done within PHP. I want to take Paypal payments on my website and having done some research I need IPN.
I've been reading docs/guides on how to achieve this from www.x.com but its quite confusing to find info I need as there seems to be more than one way of doing something. The IPN stuff looks pretty straight forward, paypal just needs the unique Invoice number, which the notify script uses to retrieve the record and post the appropriate response into a database and if all goes well, redirect page to a thank you.
The thing is which method do I initially send my values across to Paypal, I don't really want to pass on quantity and shipping data as all of these pieces of data are irrelevant I don't want my end user to see. Do I have to start looking at using the paypal api?
Thanks for the advice
Since your question seems to be "where should i start looking for a good paypal integration with php" i'll give you some general "advice". I had the same problem just a couple of months ago.
Yes you've to read paypal docs, and unfortunatly they don't have the gift of clarity.. very complete but i didn't find them very clear.
However this php class has been very helpful for my similar project: https://github.com/Quixotix/PHP-PayPal-IPN hope can help you too.
Also these articles/classes/docs has been helpful (but at the end i'm not using them) to clear my mind about PP integration:
http://drewjoh.com/wiki/code/classes/phppaypal
http://www.geekality.net/2011/05/28/php-tutorial-paypal-instant-payment-notification-ipn/
set up a sandbox account https://developer.paypal.com/
then go through some of the tutorials
you will also need to set up some test accounts, pay attention to the nav on the left (from the developers page). It has everything you need
I'm trying to set up a website that allows users to sign up at various membership levels, each at their own price, using PayPal Subscriptions. I have searched Stack Overflow and gotten numerous very helpful answers about setting up the IPN script, which I have done successfully. (Thanks!)
My question now is, how does a member cancel their account within my site? If they cancel using PayPal, my IPN will detect it and act accordingly, but there must be a way for my users to cancel their subscription on my page, right? Or at least provide a more direct link than simply telling them "log into PayPal, go to this page, and cancel it there"?
I've found scattered references to generic ideas like "have your script send a cancel request to PayPal" or some indication that maybe only the Pro (Advanced?) membership with PayPal allows you to do this, but I haven't found a straight answer that says definitively yes or no, and if so, how.
Can I have my members cancel and/or upgrade/downgrade their PayPal subscriptions through my PHP website, and if so, what code samples or other considerations will I need to make that happen? Most helpfully, is there a tutorial that can walk me through it? I'm fairly familiar with PHP/MySQL, but APIs and such are still new to me...
Thank you!