I want to use reference transactions using Paypal. I am using Paypal Standard. But I didn't find any documentation of Paypal using Paypal standard. But found using express checkout. Moreover in reference transaction documentation, there was given the requirement for creating billing agreement between customer and merchant.
So is there any way of using reference transactions purely using Paypal Standard without using any other method in any of the steps.
Reference Transactions can be performed only via API's.So,it is not possible to do Reference Transaction in PayPal Payment Standard. It is a part of the Express Checkout flow.
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Is it possible to attach payment methods to customers when PayPal uses the card checkout? I'm asking this because it seems like in order to have the PayPal buttons on the checkout, trying to use PayPal's hosted payment fields seems to not support having external customers with saved cards.
My goal is to have it so I can have the PayPal button along with the PayPal hosted fields for cards, and then if a user does checkout with the hosted fields, it will save their card somehow. This sort of functionality doesn't really seem to be supported by PayPal's API according to the docs unless I'm missing something.
I'm just trying to figure out a way if you can use previous cards in paypal's hosted checkout if that is possible.
Saving payment methods requires a feature variously called reference transactions or vaulting (the v2 vault API, not v1). The feature is not enable by default. The business owner should contact PayPal's general business support (not technical support) or an account manager to inquire about the reference transactions feature and explain the business need.
If approved for the feature, PayPal can then guide you on which API to integrate.
I wanted to ask if someone knows a possibility to pay make PayPal payments without user interaction. I am currently working on a Project, where we want to make PayPal Payments on demand without the user having to login to PayPal.
What I found was:
DoReference Transacations
Recurring Payments
The 2 Options would work for my purposes, since its OK if the user has to log in once. Since both of these methods are deprecated I wanted to know if there is another option.
At Cheddar we use the DoReferenceTransaction method with a "billing agreement" to enable transacting against a customer's paypal account repeatedly on any schedule for any amount. We have some documentation in our KB regarding how to create the billing agreement token via your app. Section 2.1 of that article would be relevant to anyone getting started with setting up a billing agreement for purposes of executing reference transactions. The rest of it is specific to Cheddar.
We, too, are aware that this method is officially deprecated. Our inquiries with PayPal suggest that it will be supported indefinitely. The new REST api does not support a modern equivalent. In other words, there's no new replacement for the DoReferenceTransaction method of Express Checkout or any alternative that enables autonomous recurring billing for variable transaction amounts on a custom schedule. If there was, we'd be using it. Practically speaking, there are countless implementations in the wild using reference transactions so I expect it would be impossible for PayPal to stop supporting it without an alternative (new) method.
FWIW, I recommend using a subscription management service provider like Cheddar. There are others that support recurring payments via PayPal account as well. Recurly comes to mind. Recurring billing and subscription management is complicated and it's made quite simple by these services. I recommend against using PayPal's native recurring payments as it is unnecessarily restrictive and once you start using it, you can't stop.
I am using the PayPal REST API and would like to create a transaction that includes a combination of recurring and one-time payments in a single transaction.
According to the documentation for the NVP integration, it seems such a transaction is possible. However, I'm not sure how to accomplish the same using the REST API. I have searched the REST API documentation as well as the .NET SDK examples and cannot find an example of a transaction that uses a mix of recurring and one-time payments.
Our use case: We process transactions for downloadable software - most of the products are one-time purchases, but some of the products (such as anti-virus products) have a recurring billing component associated with them. As such, we need to process a single transaction where one of the items is a regular purchase, and the other is a part of a recurring plan. We plan to process these transactions using the "PayPal" payment method (i.e. not direct credit card). Specifically, we'll be using Express Checkout.
Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Based on what you're doing about, here's what I think your best course of action might be:
When you have a user checking out that may have some multi-month subscriptions, and some single time subscriptions, you set up a new billing plan with each item to be purchased. For the subscriptions, you set up an entry that is set to multiple months, and for a single payment you set a single month payment (see https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/create-billing-plan/ for an example of multiple entries).
Next, you need to execute that plan for the user via a billing agreement (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/create-billing-agreement/). Within the billing agreement you can set the start date to execute immediately, which should complete the checkout process for both billing orders right then.
Let me know if that works out for your scenario.
If you want to customise your store when using the payment endpoint, that's fine, you can create a payment experience and then pass the payment_experience_id to the payment endpoint.
But what if you're using the billing agreement endpoint? I notice there's no payment_experience_id field, so how do you customise the store? Can't find anything about this in the API docs.
In the PayPal standard & express payment payment reference docs, e.g.:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/merchant/SetExpressCheckout_API_Operation_NVP/
... see the fields PAGESTYLE for the direct equivalent of the REST payment experience (a group of setting that you set up at an account level and apply to the payment experience as a set), or the fields HRDIMG, PAGEFLOWCOLOR, CARTBORDERCOLOR, LOGOIMG, and BRANDNAME fto override any single piece of the experince for a particular payment.
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.