We want to start insuring shipments over $100. Currently we calculate shipping based off the weight of the order. Is there a way to still calculate shipping that way, but then say, if order total > 100.00 add 3.50 to shipping cost?
This cannot be done if you are using the shipping profile within PayPal for PayPal Payments Standard. The only way to do so would be via custom coding your cart.
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For Express checkout, when I create a payment with intent=authorize.
after calculate shipping and tax, if the shipping + tax is greater than 15% of the original payment amount I got the error "AUTHORIZATION_AMOUNT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED".
It is very common that shipping + tax exceeds 15% of the original total especially for smaller and heavy items. What will be the way to go around it?
thanks,
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when I look at classic PayPal express checkout's first step, It's not required to set any amount to log in to PayPal in order to retrieve shipping address, how do we do this with REST API?
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECGettingStarted/#id084RM05055Z
That you may consider the PayPal InstantUpdate API, which allows you to update the tax & shipping calculation on the PayPal order review page (with AJAX).
Or alternatively, the common practice is to make the calculation before your payment request API call, on your website checkout flow (when customer fills in the shipping address and select shipping method), submit the precise amount to PayPal and then make the redirection.
You are not getting this error from DoEc, but later when you are later calling DoCapture on the authorization you generated in DoEC, right?
If so, then you are up against one of PayPal's protections for its consumers, which is that they don't allow merchants to get agreement for one price but then charge the buyer a much higher price. This is to avoid bad buyer experiences.
You basically have three options:
1) You can call PayPal CS and ask them to give you special permission to exceed the 115% limit. If you have enough history & volume with PayPal without generating disputes from users, then they may give you this permission. But this permission is usually only extended to large/trusted brands.
2) You can add an estimated tax, shipping and handling charge to the auth in Express Checkout. You would still tell the user that precise tax and shipping will be calculated when the item is shipped and their exact cost will vary. But your estimated charge should get you within 115% of the total. (Note: you usually should be able to get tax precisely at time of sale....)
3) You can decide on a fixed shipping and handling charge that allows you to cover your costs in aggregate and charge that in the EC flow. Yes, on one item that is larger/heavier than you expect you may loose $5, but on another that is smaller & lighter you will come out $5 ahead. This is what most people do.
I want to save credit card info of customers and later I want to bill them on different time period. Billing amount and frequency may change. Is this possible via paypal??
To do this you'll want to have Reference Transactions enabled on your PayPal account. This allows you to process future orders for existing customers who have 'stored' a Credit Card on a previous order. When processing new orders you/your customer will no longer need the originally used card, just select to 'Use Stored Card'.
However, you're cart/custom code will need to support Reference Transactions in order for this to work.
I've been working on a minimalist e-commerce website where I am trying to leverage Paypal's Add To Cart and View Cart buttons for the financial aspect of this website. However, I found out if you are not a U.S merchant you are restricted on Paypal's shipping calculator by not being able to calculate shipping by weight and region.
I am looking for alternatives to making a full e-commerce site, where the users do not have to register or type in their personal information or charge a fixed shipping rate for products.
I am curious on what everyone thinks regarding the user experience of a user entering their zip/postal code into an input box and being presented with a total price by estimated shipping prices (from UPS' API, Canada Post's API), and calculating taxes by region for each product. Otherwise, offer an option for the base product price plus a warning that the shipping and taxes are pending without specifying their zip/postal codes. If you have any other ideas, I would be glad to read them!
Thanks for your time!
That's what I typically recommend doing...gathering shipping directly from shipping carrier API's and then passing those values into the shopping cart / payment integration accordingly.
Any PayPal integration you choose would allow you to pass those details in be it Payments Standard, Express Checkout, Payments Pro, etc.
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.
I have a zencart web site in which I need to subtract some amount from the total value of the payment befor going to the paypal site to pay it. Can I do that in zen cart?
Is there any plug in for that?
Take a look at Group Discounts - this shows you how to reduce the total value of the cart by a percentage for certain groups; you could base your price reduction on this module.