I'm not so rich, but I'm amazed by all of the excellent devs on Stack Overflow.
I wonder if some of you are giving them money via PayPal, when they help you so nicely?
This question belongs on https://meta.stackoverflow.com , but it certainly seems that developers are allowed to let people donate to them via user profiles: Linking to "PayPal Donate" in your About Me?
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As a developer, I want to know what are the advantages of using PayPal API?
I know there are a ton of APIs out there to use, but if I will use the PayPal API specifically, what are the benefits of it?
Typically people use the PayPal API if they have a business that wants to process payments via PayPal. It's not a developer question.
Your question becomes, really, what are the advantages of processing payments with PayPal? And there may be interesting answers to that question but this isn't the place.
Edit:
Ok I did think of something that can be added from a developer and solutioning perspective
Look at the demo code here
See how easy that is. Now actually click one of the buttons. See how the window emerges, and how quick and natural the payment experience is for the user--with the originating website staying loaded in the background.
Think also about the security of this payment experience. All the buyer's financial instruments are saved and stored at PayPal; nothing is shared with the (potentially new/unfamiliar) ecommerce site they are paying, whereas PayPal is a relatively trusted name by many millions of buyers.
So, TL;DR : it's very easy, it's very quick (no retyping things) and secure, and people trust it enough to actually send you money and hope you will deliver on the new product/service you are offering
We have our own custom products that we sell. We are entering into a partnership where someone will be using their website to send customers to us. Their customers will pay with our Paypal button on their website, once we receive payment we ship out the product and pay a portion of the profits to them. On paper this sounds good but we have no idea how to execute it. How will we know the sale came from their website? How do we set this up without them needing access to our Paypal account?
Any ideas on where to start? Thank you, it's much appreciated!
Please, hire a developer to set this up for you. As it is, you're basically asking people to complete a project for you completely for free - that isn't what this site is about.
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Is there any alternative for using PayPal Mass Payments that is both worldwide and automated?
I am to create a periodic payouts functionality on a set day of the month for an online marketplace. It should be as automated as possible, preferably only requiring admin action if the payout can not be completed for some reason.
The code worked fine in the sandbox, but when we tried to test it with live credentials we got the following error though:
:Errors => {
:ShortMessage => "User is blocked",
:LongMessage => "We're sorry, but your PayPal account isn't currently eligible to send mass payments. Please contact either PayPal Customer Service or your account manager.",
:ErrorCode=>"10329",
:SeverityCode=>"Error"
}
When the client got in touch with PayPal he was told they do not enable Mass Payments for new accounts any more and the feature is in maintenance mode only, which leaves us in quite a pinch.
I took a look at Adaptive Payments, but from what I gathered from the docs it looks like it would require interaction from the person issuing the payment, which in this case would be us - we would have to have an admin click through the PayPal confirmation page on each payout day. It'd be manageable for a beta period, but not when we go out in the public.
Is there anything else on the market that fills the same niche as PayPal Mass Payments? Or maybe I am wrong and Adaptive Payments does have a hands-free mode I missed in the docs?
Or do we have to contend with manually going through PayPal confirmation process with Adaptive Payments?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
I'm using Ruby and Rails, but non-language-based answer or an answer with a sample in any programming language will suffice, I can work out the Ruby code myself given some pointers.
There's a new way to get Payouts and Mass Payments turned on, on your account. There's also a new REST based Payouts API, which is related to Mass Payments.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/payouts-overview/
Head over to My account to get started with your Payouts application.
Full disclosure: I work at TransferWise.
Have you considered TransferWise's payouts solution? We offer an API that let's you fully automate payouts globally (50 currencies available and growing).
We're offering a similar solution, but we pay out straight to the payee's local bank.
We're also a whole lot cheaper than Paypal for international payments. Price comparison research we did here: https://transferwise.com/us/blog/transferwise-vs-paypal-savings
Marketing page here
http://transferwise.com/payouts
Api documentation here
https://api-docs.transferwise.com/
I'd recommend looking at Stripe, Braintree and Worldpay.
Stripe would be my preference.
You'll have to take users card details, store the token provided by Stripe, then write a module that allows you to take the payments in one go.
Take a look at VerifyValid. They do mass payouts.
First i am not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question , but i found couple of donation questions here. So i thought i should ask it on stackoverflow, but if i am wrong please refer me to the correct stack exchange network site.
We are a group of people who are creating web scripts and applications for free downloads, we never charge anyone. But sometimes it's really hard to spend on a project we are not going to earn. So is it a good idea to use paypal donate button on our site or not.
Apart from me and some of my fellows we have some other volunteers as well who have been creating these free web applications so we need some way to encourage them and pay them some little amount for their hard work. As we have no earnings from the site it is not possible to pay them directly.
Can someone suggest a better way to encourage all the contributors as i found that donate button will be helpful . Still i am not sure and do not want to take any wrong steps
Thanks Everyone
I'd recommend Flattr. It's something between PayPal for small donations and a Facebook Like button:
If a user clicks on it, Flattr will remember that website and, at the end of the month, all people "flattred" by that user will receive a certain financial donation from that user. The benefit of this system is that your users only would have to click once to show their support (both morally and financially). Also with Flattr all money a user wishes to spend will reach you (and hopefully also your volunteers), fee's are paid when putting money on your Flattr account.
Due to its (rather high) fees, I would only recommend PayPal if you expect larger donations.
I'm really having trouble finding out how to set this up. Their documentation is horrendous at best. I called Paypal and told them what I need:
have my own custom shopping cart
client doesn't want to pay monthly fee
I was told that I could use Website Payments Standard to send my cart contents and the user can choose to sign in/pay or simply pay by CC without an account. Every link on their documentation sends me to the silly HTML button creator. I don't need hand-holding through the coding, I just need to know where I can find the proper documentation. I don't want Paypal buttons that send customers to a paypal cart page every time they add something.
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_cart_upload
This is what I was looking for. It only took 3+ hours to find, so congrats to you Paypal. You've stolen my money in the past, now you've stolen my time. Hopefully this helps someone else who was looking for the same thing.
Thanks! I'm looking for a way to implement paypal in my java (spring) server so my clients (or I) can easily setup their webshops. I totally agree that implementing PayPal in a web application should be simple and in reality is a total mess.
So thanks a lot for posting this here, I guess you also saved me some additional time!
Best wishes,
Jochen