I am working for a company that uses paypal nvp for its transactions. I am not sure if these are two completely different things, but if they are, what is the difference? There are so many different paypal account types and API's I am starting to get confused.
If anyone could help me out, it would be great!
Thanks!
The NVP API is part of the PayPal Classic API which includes PayPal Payments Pro. So to integrate Pro you could use NVP or you could use XML/SOAP.
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I am working for a company that is using Paypal pro. There are so many Paypal account types, API's, and SDK's that I am starting to get confused with it all. At developer.paypal.com, there is documentation for many different things. What API and/or documentation do I use to start integrating paypal into my website? What is the difference between all these different ones?
Any advice or help would be great, as I am stuck.
Thanks for your time!
Personally, I would avoid the REST API and stick with the Classic API for now. The REST API is very new and doesn't do (much) more than the Classic APIs do. In fact, the Classic API is much more mature has a lot more functionality, which is one of the reasons I still prefer and recommend it.
With PayPal Pro you will use one of two APIs depending on which version you have.
Website Payments Pro 3.0 - This uses the DoDirectPayment API
Payments Pro 2.0 - This uses the PayFlow API.
Payments Pro 2.0 is actually the newer version. If you're interested in more detail on that you can take a look at my article on the History of PayPal Payments Pro.
So those would be for direct credit card processing through your site / application from your own custom checkout page. To add PayPal payments to that, you would use Express Checkout APIs. Specifically,
SetExpressCheckout
GetExpressCheckoutDetails
DoExpressCheckoutPayment
If you are working with PHP this PayPal PHP SDK will make all of these calls very simple for you.
Does DoReferenceTransaction API work with any PayPal account? I'm trying to implement something similar to the one-click buy option seen in Amazon (not recurring billing). Finance still has to get back to me on the type on account we have (Standard, Pro etc). Does the DoReferenceTransaction API work with all types of paypal accounts?
Also, am a bit confused by the types of accounts PayPal has. On PayPal's site I see only Website Payments Standard and Express Checkout. But I hear a lot of conversation about Payment Pro and Payflow Pro and all that. Not sure which is which.
Any inputs/pointers would be appreciated.
DoReferenceTransaction will work fine with Standard PayPal accounts but only with Express Checkout. If you want to work with credit cards directly you'd have to go with Payments Pro.
If you are going to use DRT with EC then you'll need get it approved by PayPal before it'll be available, but it doesn't cost anything extra.
PayPal has recently made some changes to "Payments Pro" that are causing lots of confusion. "Website Payments Pro" is the "old" version that uses the DoDirectPayment API.
"Payments Pro" (without the Website at the beginning) is the "new" version and it works on the PayFlow Gateway.
Depending on how old your account is and how you go about applying for Pro you'll get put into one or the other. They're trying to get everybody on PayFlow now, but sometimes they can't depending on variables in play.
If you do get into the new version of Payments Pro you would actually have access to every API on PayFlow and the standard PayPal gateway, but you would have to get them to enable everything for you.
I have a site which runs smoothly with PayPal and express checkout. NOw my client wants a refrence transaction (billed directly from customer when he ordered via cellphone etc without involving him). He asked me to use payflow pro for this but I am really really confused how to use payflow pro with paypal API. Please Guide me . I already read their payflow guideness PDF but didn't get any idea from there. Thanks
Payflow Pro is an entirely different set of API calls, separate from PayPal.
Is your client sure he wants to use the Payflow Pro API, if he has already integrated with PayPal Express Checkout?
If all you want to do is a reference transaction, all you have to do is add 'L_BILLINGTYPE0=MerchantInitiatedBilling' to your initial SetExpressCheckout API call and call the DoReferenceTransaction API call to create this reference transaction.
I would know if PayPal provides the possibility to execute payments avoiding exiting from own website.
In other words, using PayPal API is it possibile to execute payments inside the own website without being redirected to PayPal servers?
Thanks
Yes. It is called Website Payments Pro.
You must handle all of the integration on your end, including installing an SSL certificate.
To supplement hztera's answer, here is some helpful documentation to accomplish integrating PayPal into your site:
Website Payments Pro
DoDirectPayment API Operation
Pay Flow
NVP API Basics
Sample Code
I am using paypal standard in my website and we are using recurring payment method for that,and i done it successfully. but now i wanting to know all the details of that recurring payment profile. i had googling for that and i got "GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails" API for get profile details.but as i know its working with PAYPAL PRO only.
Is anybody having solution the same for PAYPAL STANDARD..? i m stuck on that task from many days.please help me out.
Thanks.
GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails works for both Express Checkout as well as Website Payments Pro recurring payment profiles.
If you use Standard, you may or may not be able to use this API. Give it a shot I'd say!