I've been searching Paypal's products and docs and I can't seen to confirm or deny if Paypal is a solution for what I need, so wanted to ask the community.
I run a web platform for creators to spin up websites. One common request is to create a page for them to sell their merch. I don't want to re-create Shopify/etc.. so have been telling them to go use that and link to their store from their website. But I'm wondering if there's an easy way to give them a very basic store experience using standard Paypal Buy Buttons.
My ideal approach:
Create a ShopItems model and users add items with price, description, shipping cost.
User adds their Paypal merchant ID
I generate a Buy with Paypal button that simply sends info to Paypal about the product being sold, how much to charge, etc..
I dont need any shopping cart functionality, and I dont want to have anything to do with the payment. I just want the end customer to feel like they're purchasing something (not sending someone $ via venmo), and have a place to add their shipping info, etc..
Currently, I see how a user can create accounts in their paypal account and then they're given a specific button for that item, but I'm trying to make this a little simpler where the user creates the product in my system and I just use Paypal for invoice/payment.
Would love any thoughts / ideas.
Integrate a version of PayPal Checkout: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/
Some sample demo code here: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/client (use the server version if you need robust payment completion notification -- this requires implementing two routes on your server, one for 'Set Up Transaction' and one for 'Capture Transaction', documented here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/reference/server-integration/ )
If you know the merchant ID you're processing transactions for, this can be specified when loading the SDK: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/reference/customize-sdk/#merchant-id
Whether or not you specify a merchant ID on the SDK line, that same or some other identifier needs to be specified in the purchase_units payee object when setting up the transaction: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/integration-features/custom-payee/
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In Paypal, I m trying to implemen t a Auto payment system using paypal. Where user can save their card details then whenever the invoice is generated using card details invoice can be paid automatically.
I read the document of paypal but not found regarding that.
Please let me know how can I implement Auto payment system using PayPal.
There's quite a bit of information on the Subscriptions page, but most of that is a generic overview. However, there is link to the Integrate Subscriptions page that gives more links to specific API and SDK instructions.
Follow through the step-by-step information to get all this set up. It'll take a while to get everything correct, so definitely use their testing APIs so you aren't doing a bunch of tests on their production APIs and spending your own money doing it.
Once you get the subscriptions created and someone subscribed, PayPal does the rest. You just need to create the subscription and allow people to subscribe.
Also, PayPal keeps track of credit cards and other payment forms for you, so you don't have to go through all the PCI security procedures for storing that information yourself. That gets real involved and can cause you to get in serious trouble with fines and lawsuits if you aren't certified. It's much easier to use a payment processing gateway such as PayPal for this than create your own, especially since you are going to be using PayPal for processing the payments anyway.
I'm currently using Stripe Connect to allow sellers on my website to sell products to other users. I don't want to be a man in the middle and hold the money and then pass it along for legal reasons, so stripe connect works quite well for me, whilst still allowing me to know when a charge went through fully or was refunded, etc.
I'd like now to offer sellers in my marketplace the option to get paid by Paypal. This could be as simple as storing the seller's Paypal email and rendering the PayPal button on their shop, however, it seems now I wouldn't be able to track if a buyer actually finalized a purchase or abandoned the sale. I need this info for various reasons.
My question is how can I do this with PayPal?
All current PayPal checkout integrations have a "Capture" step, so you can know if a payment was successfully captured or not. Since you want to track this information on a server, you should use a server-side integration.
Implement two routes, one for 'Set Up Transaction' and one for 'Capture Transaction', documented here.
The best front end to use for approval is: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/server , paired with the above two routes you created.
Oh and since you'll be sending the payment to an account other than your own, specify this in a payee object when you set up the transaction.
I am building an in app purchase shop for my companies pc game.
I know that in android and ios you create the items in your developer account and then buy them through there.
Is there a way to do something similiar in Paypal?
P.S. I have already developed the connection with paypal's rest api and am able to charge users through paypal. But Instead of passing the price of the item and it's description etc.. to paypal I would rather pass an item code and have paypal show the user the correct price in his currency. Plus I want to be able to pull this data from paypal and display it to the user from there.
My server is gamesparks which works with a node.js and mongo db.
PayPal does not offer anything like what you're wanting. You can pass through the item_name variable so that the order invoices show the item name, but you can't set up any items with prices/description. Usually that process is taken on by the developer on the project side, not processor side.
The most effective and safest way to retrieve information for PayPal payments is to set up an IPN. Here is the documentation if you are unaware.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/products/instant-payment-notification/
I'm interested to see if anybody is looking to integrate Woocommerce with the PayPal Here payment App? More so the importing of products from Woocommerce to the PayPal Here App. Be a great addition.
I haven't looked into that specifically, but I will be adding a "virtual terminal" / POS functionality into my PayPal for WooCommerce plugin before long. I've got it planned for the next full version release.
It basically gives you a section in the WP admin panel where site owners can easily put together invoices using their WooCommerce inventory and then process those orders accordingly. I will be including the Invoicing API's so you can create an invoice from the Woo VT order page, or you'll also have the ability to swipe a card using a USBSwiper card reader. Of course, you could also key in card data if you needed to do it that way.
The cool thing about that is even when you key in the transactions you still get your 2.2% - 2.9% rate depending on your volume because it would be processed over Payments Pro in that case. Same with invoicing or swiping.
Back to your original question, though, I'm unaware of any API or tool that allows us to interact directly with the Here inventory. They do have the Sideloader API for PayPal Here, which would allow you to send inventory (or a specific order) into the Here app from your own app in order to complete an order, but I don't think it lets you push inventory directly into the actual Here app.
On that note, what I could potentially do is build a stand-alone app that does nothing but pull in current WooCommerce inventory, and then from there you could create orders through the Sideloader API using that inventory, but it would use the Here app to actually complete the order. Seems a little clunky, but in theory, that should work fine.
If you want to contact me directly we could discuss getting this done for you.
Right at this time PayPal Here is designed to be card present, so you cannot import your products from Woocomerce into the PayPal Here App.
Here is a link to an FAQ on PayPal Here:
PayPal Here FAQ
Here is the current list of PayPal Here Partners:
PayPal Here Partners
I plan to create a page on my website that lets others upload games and apps they've built, then sell them via PayPal. Please forgive me if this is a simple question, I've never used PayPal for anything other than purchasing things. I need the button to dynamically change who it's sending the money to. I understand that in order to split who the money is going to, I would need to set up a business account, but if I wanted the creator to keep all of the money they charge for their virtual goods, would it be as simple as changing one of the tags within the PayPal form?
I'm experienced in PHP, SQL and Javascript, so dynamically changing any of the forms elements wouldn't be an issue, but would the payment actually finalize?
Yes, if you're working with Payments Standard it would just be a matter of updating the business parameter with the email address or PayPal merchant ID of the person you want the money to go to.
This isn't the best way to do it, though, because people can see the HTML, copy it, adjust it, and submit payments that are for less than what you set the price at.
In order to protect that sort of stuff you could generate your button code using the Button Manager API, or better yet, go with Express Checkout and the Permissions API (or manually granting permissions) so you can make API calls on behalf of 3rd party users.
My PHP class library for PayPal would make this pretty simple for you.