I need to do order processing upon confirmation of payment. Using PayPal Standard, is there a way I can get an order ID (that my site specifies) and a flag for whether the payment is received or not?
It appears that CMS's like Joomla have been able to do what I'm describing, but I haven't been able to find anything in PayPal Documentation that indicates how. Of course, I'm sure the answer is in there, and I will ontinue looking, but if someone could save me some time by pointing me in the correct direction, I would really appriciate it!
Just a little more information, I am developing this site in ASP.NET MVC with C#. I have also been researching PayPal IPN feature, but after talking to other developers in the office, they strongly recommend steering clear of IPN because of it's asynchronous nature.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for any help.
There are many ways to get information from PayPal. Essentially they break down into two categories, "push" and "pull".
"Push" is when PayPal pushes information to you. There are two ways that PayPal pushes information
Information sent in the URL when the customer returns to your site.
The IPN notifications.
"Pull" is when you request information from PayPal. PayPal provides a variety of APIs that you can use to get information about your transactions. So, for example, you could set up a job that runs every X minutes and asks PayPal for information about any orders that you know were sent to PayPal, but for which you didn't receive information on a return URL.
Here are a couple of links to get you started:
https://www.x.com/community/ppx/transaction_information
https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1372
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One of my clients have a situation to pay their website user directly from platform account to user. I can do it by using their transfer payment API.
But, my client want to pay to user's email so that user can have option to perform rest of the action.
I went through their API documentation but don't see anything related to do that. Does anyone have similar experience or know anything related to do that?
Stripe's API doesn't have anything like that, but it is something you may be able to build into your application.
I think you might want to contact Stripe Support and fill them in on your use case and see if they can offer you some specific suggestions.
I'm a fairly new developer and this is my first time integrating a rest API with an app. The goal is to implement a subscription process where a user can select from a choice of 4 subscriptions and then submit a payment through Paypal or stripe, but I'm struggling to understand how PayPal's rest API works. I've read their documentation and looked at some examples which gave me an idea of where to start. However, I had a few questions that I couldn't seem to find the answer to online:
Are subscription plans that are created through the rest API permanently associated with the account they have been created on?
If they are permanent, how can I avoid hardcoding the Plan ID? This seems like bad practice even though it is done in some of the examples.
When should I be generating new tokens? Every time they expire? Every time a user wants to subscribe to a plan?
How do I automatically execute agreements after they have been created? (I assume executing the agreement is what makes it active and begins the collection of payment).
Thanks, it would be nice to get some clarification on some of this stuff.
Usually if I want to make a payment via PayPal through a Rails app, I prepare a payment form in a view and after clicking that is a user redirected to PayPal, where (s)he pay and is redirected back to the app.
I would need send a regular form with data to controller, then to save them there and then according to what's in the sent data to redirect user to PayPal, where (s)he would pay.
But how to do something like this? Is even this approach allowed to make a payment with using PayPal?
Thank you
You will probably want to consume the PayPal API. This may provide a better experience for your user since you won't have to bounce them out to PayPal and back.
It looks like there's a gem that may help you out: paypal_adaptive
I haven't tried it, so your mileage may vary.
Ok so there is this feature that I would like to implement on my site. Users can choose to donate money to a specific nonprofit (let's say Wikipedia). So they click donate and they choose the amount on the website, get redirected to PayPal website, complete the transaction, and then get redirected to my website AFTER I get some Instant Notification, with which I track that donation in my website database with the users info.
I looked up some Railscasts video about PayPal, but they were all mostly about e-commerce. How can I set up the system to wire the money directly to Wikipedia's PayPal account and how can I get the notification back? I really could appreciate it if someone could assist me with this.
P.S I am running the localhost server for now, will that be a problem?
What you're trying to do is called a "third party transaction" since the first two parties to the transaction are the donor and the recipient org (eg Wikipedia).
From my quick search of PayPal, I don't think it is supported. Even if it is supported, you'd need approval from each of the recipients to set it up. Eg see this Paypal 3rd party shopping cart article
Amazon Flexible Payments Service does support third party payments. Again, you'd need the co-operation of the recipients.
You could have the donors pay money to you which you would then turn around and donate to the non-profits. But to do so, either your donors would lose the tax deductions or you'd need to become a non-profit yourself. In addition, there would be two sets of transaction fees, yours and the recipients.
I am building a marketplace app for a client and need to be able to both send payments and receive payments. I am currently using ActiveMerchant to handle incoming payments, but I don't see anywhere in the documentation if it is possible to SEND payments. I've read elsewhere that it may in fact be possible to send payments using one of Paypal's many API's but I'm not sure which one I should be looking to use.
If anyone has ever had to SEND payments within a rails system I would appreciate some insight, where to start looking, gems, etc.
Thanks!
I would look into Adaptive Payments it seems to offer something similar to what you are looking for. There is also a gem for it over here which seems to be actively developed.
If this wont work for you for any reason let me know and I can look for something else.
PayPal supports it with MassPay. Not sure about ActiveMerchant.
(To get MassPay enabled on the live PayPal site, contact CS. For Sandbox, log a ticket at https://www.paypal.com/mts/).