The paypal express checkout API docs state that the 'Total cost of the transaction to the buyer' (PAYMENTREQUEST_n_AMT) cannot exceed 10,000 USD. See here...
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/merchant/SetExpressCheckout_API_Operation_NVP
I was hoping to implement Express Checkout for a luxury e-commerce website where many items do exceed 10,000 USD.
Is there anyway to increase the Paypal Express payment limit? Presumably, many items sell through paypal on eBay for over 10,000 USD.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Contact Paypal Customer Service. If the account qualifies, they can raise the limit.
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I am beating my head against the wall with this one. I am setting up a payment using the PayPal Adaptive Payments API, where one of my platform's users receives a payment from their customer. I need to be able to see the amount of the PayPal fee related to that transaction.
I'm familiar with and have tried using the PaymentDetails API operation, but unfortunately, the only quasi-relevant information that method (and the IPN) returns is fees_payer (who paid the fees), not the amount of the fee.
I've also looked into the GetTransactionDetails operation, but that appears to be only for Express Checkout and Website Payments Pro APIs, according to this document.
Any ideas how I can determine the fee amount on these transactions?
With Adaptive Payments the IPNNotificationURL specified in the Pay request would be an app specific IPN that won't provide much info about that payment itself.
If you setup IPN in the receiver account profile, then an additional IPN would be triggered that would be transaction specific and would include the fee.
I am having nightmare figuring out which payment sdk to follow to charge my customers on daily basis for the due outstanding to them from my application which varies(metered charging my customer).
the recurring payment only helps to pay the fixed amount for certain billing cycles.but i have variable amount to charge daily.
Is there any best approach to charge my customers on daily basis for the amount due to them from my software for the digital service i provide to them.
Thanks in advance
any suggestions and comments are welcome.
PayPal offers 3 integration types:
1. Express Checkout (the most common)
2. Adaptive Payments
3. PayPal Payments Pro
You're trying option #1, which lacks support for variable pries.
Both Adaptive Payments and PayPal Payments Pro offer recurring charges with dynamic amounts, but require PayPal's approval and quite a bit of paperwork. If you're approved, the APIs are pretty simple in both cases.
May I suggest some easier alternatives?
1. Use Recurly who are already approved for #2 above (adaptive payments). Other good alternatives are BrainTree and Stripe.
2. Change your pricing policy to a monthly charge of $X, granting a set of tokens. The user can upgrade to a higher plan to get more tokens every month.
I'm working on a software project in a group of developers and we plan to sell the product via an electronic payment system such as PayPal. In this connection, we wonder if it would be possible to set up a business account with PayPal (or any other payment system) in a way that makes any received payment split according to a certain ratio and the shares automatically transferred to other accounts?
If it's possible with PayPal, how we do it or where do we find any help docs on this subject?
If you are wanting to split payments, you can use PayPal's Express Checkout or Adaptive Payments to split up the funds into different accounts. Using Express Checkout with parallel payments, you can split up the transaction up and the receivers of the payment will pay the fees according to the amount they received. The buyer will see the different receivers that were involved in the transaction. If you use Adaptive Payments you can set who pays the fees, and it can be set up so the buyer does not see the other parties involved.
I'm mulling over using Paypal express as an option for a new ecommerce site. I've searched for an answer to this question but can't seem to find an answer. My question has to do with exactly how you would checkout using Paypal on Etsy, for example. Let's say the total sale price is $20, when the buyer is being redirected back to Etsy after logging on to Paypal so their information can be collected, at what point would Etsy collect their commission? Would Etsy just collect their commission and the remaining payment goes directly to the seller, without Etsy touching the seller's portion? For my site the $20 (for example), needs to go directly to the seller while at the same time my company collects our commission without any part of the sellers portion of the sale being in my Paypal Express account for any amount of time.
It depends on how they are processing payments. They could be using Express Checkout with Parallel payments. Basically when the DoExpressCheckoutPayment API call is executed the transaction would be split up into the different accounts.
Using Paypal's Adaptive Payments API, I am selling physical items that require a ship to address - on the Paypal purchase page I inform Paypal to have the customer select an address. If I have sales tax rules set up on my merchant account, how do I get Adaptive Payments to add sales tax to the order - I hand it the subtotal, and based on the state in the address the user selects, it calculates and adds the sales tax to that subtotal for a grand total?
Isn't this the entire point of Paypal - customer provides this information to Paypal, and then provides me only the information I need for the transaction?
You're right but AFAIK, since PayPal does not want to keep tax rates which differ for countries and type of goods you ship. So, you can either try using
GetShippingAddresses
api call before executing the payment, and add
totalTax
information during
SetPaymentsOptions
call..
Doesn't seem to be able to compute this on its own - I ended up keeping a hack of a solution in place. Prompt the user to provide the state to which the goods will be shipped to, and then calculate the tax on my own before sending the order total (subtotal + tax) to the Paypal workflow. Disappointing, IMO.