A bit late in the game but just in case it helps anyone. If you are testing using the Sandbox and on the payment page you want to test payments NOT using a PayPal account but using the “Pay with Debit or Credit Card option” (i.e. when a regular Joe/Jane, NOT PayPal users, want to … Read more
In order to go live, you need to register your application with PayPal to obtain an application ID. When you submit your application to PayPal for review, the application is quickly scanned for the requests to PayPal operations. If no “advanced” operations are found, PayPal issues an AppID for the production servers at the time … Read more
Iten_number hidden variable don’t work in my application. But i found that custom hidden field works fine. Just add this field to the form, generated by paypal: <input type=”hidden” name=”custom” value=”YOUR VALUE FROM DB”/>. After, you can read this value to identify, for example, what product have been purchased. (Java code): String custom = request.getParameter(“custom”);
PayPal returns data back to your site via what they call IPN. Its really just a callback to a URL you specify. You can set this URL via the variable notify_url you can send to PayPal. Example: <input name=”notify_url” value=”http://yourdomain.com/notify_url.php” type=”hidden”> The notify_url.php in the example above receives some POST variables from PayPal when the … Read more
The current PayPal for Business interface only provides a way to access IPN History if you have manually configured IPN in your PayPal account settings. In this case, you’d go to [your name] > Account Settings > Notifications > Instant Payment Notifications (click Update here), then the explanatory text there will include a link to … Read more
You’ve got two main options: use the MassPay API or Adaptive Payments API. Note: Adaptive Payments is not available for new integrations. PayPal provides documentation to only support existing integrations The Adaptive Payments option gives you a lot more control over the payment and is the future direction of the Paypal APIs. It supports SOAP, … Read more
subscr_eot is sent when a user’s last paid interval has expired. subscr_cancel is sent as soon as the use cancels the subscription – for example: User signs up on day 1 for a subscription which is billed once a month. subscr_signup is sent immediately, subscr_payment is sent as soon as payment goes through (usually immediately … Read more
Stripe fits a lot of your criteria — you can accept credit card payments without a merchant account. You also get to control the payment flow without having to worry about PCI compliance. A clean and well-structured REST API The API is based entirely on REST — you can even use curl to charge cards: … Read more
The APIs for PDT and IPN are similar. The main difference is when you receive the notification. For that reason I would recommend implementing both. With PDT you get the notification instantly and can do any additional processing required and show the user a confirmation page. With IPN you are guaranteed to be notified that … Read more
You have to enable auto return in your PayPal account, otherwise it will ignore the return field. From the documentation (updated to reflect new layout Jan 2019): Auto Return is turned off by default. To turn on Auto Return: Log in to your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com or https://www.sandbox.paypal.com The My Account Overview page appears. … Read more