Paypal billing plan description? - paypal

I want to do the following in paypal rest! api billing plan:
the description in the left, how do i do this in php rest api when it comes to billing plan?
For example, if it was just one ordinary item, i did this with the following code:
$item = new Item();
$item->setQuantity('1');
$item->setName('benny');
$item->setPrice('7.41');
$item->setCurrency('USD');
$item->setSku('blah');
// //var_dump($item);
$items = new ItemList();
$items->addItem($item);
...
$transaction->setItemList($items);
I don't see anything similar when it comes to the plans api:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#billing-plans-and-agreements
This is what i get when i do an agreement: (only description but i want items to be here too, just like the prev example)

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Adding a discount amount to payment request to PAYPAL through REST API

I am using PAYPAL Rest API for payment transaction. I am calling context(/v1/payments/payment) for authorization and passing the ItemList as part of Transaction object.
Requirement: To Display Discount/GiftCard amount as part of the ItemList on the Paypal authentication page.
Problem: The API doesn't allow to put negative amount to an item and validation error is thrown.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to display discount/gift card negative amount. (It is possible in Classic API though)
Negative amount are supported now.
For example in PHP SDK you can pass -ve values as line item.
$item1 = new Item();
$item1->setName('Ground Coffee 40 oz')
->setCurrency('USD')
->setQuantity(1)
->setPrice('5.00');
$item2 = new Item();
$item2->setName('Discount')
->setCurrency('USD')
->setQuantity(1)
->setPrice('-2.00');

Paypal REST SDK - Billing Plans no longer retrievable after being made ACTIVE

So I'm using the Paypal PHP SDK on Github, http://paypal.github.io/PayPal-PHP-SDK/ . Some strange behavior I've noticed which I'm not sure what's going on.
So let's say I create a billing plan, but don't touch it after creation, so that the state is simple CREATED. Everything is good, I can retrieve it from the list of plans. However, the moment I change the state to ACTIVE via a patch, I can see that it is in fact active, but only just once. Any subsequent attempts to see the list of plans no longer shows that plan. What's going on? I'm literally copy pasting the example source they give.
Edit - just to expand, I know the plan still exists, because I can subscribe users to it. Weirdly the paypal page where you click ok to subscribe is extremely non verbose... doesn't even say what the price is, just to approve paying my store. And yet the Agreement object that is returned by PayPal, which includes the approval url, has all this info. Weird.
If you are using the PayPal-PHP-SDK, you could assign more parameters to Plan::all() method.
As shown in the List Plan sample code, you could pass parameter 'status' as :
try {
// Get the list of all plans
// You can modify different params to change the return list.
// The explanation about each pagination information could be found here
// at https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/#list-plans
$params = array('page_size' => '20', 'page' => '98', 'status' => 'ACTIVE');
$planList = Plan::all($params, $apiContext);
} catch (Exception $ex) {
ResultPrinter::printError("List of Plans", "Plan", null, $params, $ex);
exit(1);
}
As in the case, you could change the status, and page along with page_size. This will help you get the active list of plans.
Actually, by default the list plan status is defaulted to CREATED.

What is wrong with my paypal process to receive webhook notifications?

So this is what i did so far and it doesn't work, i will appreciate any help on the matter:
my goal is to post back any webhook event that occur in my paypal sandbox account.
So i have 2 accounts,
one that belongs to the receiver of the money, call it "facilitator",
one that belong to the "buyer",
Now in my account,there is a Sandbox webhooks configuration, so i entered the following:
https://csdieuqkzo.localtunnel.me
goes without saying that this comes from localtunnel.me.
So in my project, i do a simple sale using the api... this is the full create sale process:
$payer = new Payer();
$payer->setPayment_method('paypal');
//dd($payer);
$item = new Item();
$item->setQuantity('1');
$item->setName('benny');
$item->setPrice('7.41');
$item->setCurrency('USD');
$item->setSku('blah');
// //var_dump($item);
$items = new ItemList();
$items->addItem($item);
//var_dump($items);
$amountDetails = new Details();
$amountDetails->setSubtotal('7.41');
$amountDetails->setTax('0.03');
$amountDetails->setShipping('0.03');
$amount = new Amount();
$amount->setCurrency('USD');
$amount->setTotal('7.47');
$amount->setDetails($amountDetails);
$transaction = new Transaction();
$transaction->setAmount($amount);
$transaction->setDescription('This is the payment transaction description.');
$transaction->setItemList($items);
// echo '<pre>';
// print_r($transaction);
$RedirectUrls = new RedirectUrls();
$RedirectUrls ->setReturnUrl('https://csdieuqkzo.localtunnel.me/#/pricing');
$RedirectUrls ->setCancelUrl('https://csdieuqkzo.localtunnel.me/#/');
$payment = new Payment();
$payment->setIntent('sale');
$payment->setPayer($payer);
$payment->setTransactions(array($transaction));
$payment->setRedirectUrls($RedirectUrls);
// echo '<pre>';
// print_r($payment);
// dd();
$response = $payment->create($this->apiContext)->toarray();
Session::put('pay_id',$response['id']);
return Response::json($response);
After this there is a redirect to paypal, approval and when it comes back to my site, it excute with the following:
$payerId = Input::get('payerId');
$payment = Payment::get(Session::get('pay_id'), $this->apiContext);
//return $payerId;
$paymentExecution = new PaymentExecution();
$paymentExecution->setPayer_id($payerId);
$approval = $payment->execute($paymentExecution, $this->apiContext)->toarray();
return Response::json($approval);
Then an object is coming in saying the state of this transaction is approved, super, but i don't see any post to the webhook url i defined earlier...Now how did i test it?
I wrote a simple script to the post method of my root (in laravel):
Route::post('/',function(){
$myfile = fopen("bennyfile.txt", "a") or die("Unable to open file!");
$txt = "\nouterequested";
fwrite($myfile, $txt);
fclose($myfile);
});
Means whenever a post request is coming to the following url (in my case, a post to the root of:https://csdieuqkzo.localtunnel.me
I just want to add a line, that's it...but it doesn't update anything!...
for example if i do a post request from postman to the same place, all is good, but when a sale is approved, or any other action, nothing is happening.
Why?
This is a paypal document which helps you understand how webhooks works.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/rest-webhooks-overview/
webhooks is http call back mechanism, ideally, you will need a valid url as your webhooks endpoint to test the webhooks notification message posted by PayPal. If you did sale using paypal wallet, you should get PayPal's webhooks notification message in JSON format at your endpoint. webhooks doesn't support direct credit card case yet.
If you want to test your listener script on local, you can use postman tool to post the sample message to your local url and test.
Using "localhost" isn't going to work because when PayPal's servers hits that address they're just hitting themselves. You need to setup DNS to point a domain to a virtual server on your local machine instead so that you can use a fully qualified domain name instead of localhost.

Paypal IPN currency & response

I am using a paypal ipn script i found here
http://coderzone.org/library/PHP-PayPal-Instant-Payment-Notification-IPN_1099.htm
I am aware that I can send information to paypal and get a response. It states I can get the information back using $_POST . My query is how do I specify the UK currency?
Also wanted to clarify a minor point. Am I correct that this is how i can confirm it was a success.
if ($_POST['payment_status'] == 'completed')
// Received Payment!
// $_POST['custom'] is order id and has been paid for.
}
This might be a little late for you sorry, but just in case - I currently use "currencyCode" = > "AUD" and it is working in the sandbox.
There's a full list of the currency codes available at PayPal
For yours, I'm guessing it would be:
$p->add_field('currencyCode', 'GBP');
As for your question about the IPN itself, it looks like you're on the right track. It will depend on the data you're getting back and whether you're interested in the individual transactions (if using adaptive payments) or if you're reversing them all on error etc. The easiest way to determine what you'll need to do is to simply display or log all the post data so you can see how it's constructed.
You'll also need to set it up so that the script is accessible by PayPal. You'll then pass the full URL of this script to the "notify_url" parameter and send it off to PayPal. Once the payment has completed PayPal will send a bunch of information to your script so that you can process it.
Unfortunately I'm not from a PHP background so I can't give you the exact code you'll need. Also note that there are a lot of security issues that you'll want to look into before going to a production environment. Not sure if you already intend to do this with that validateIPN function, but you need to ensure that you can tell whether it comes from PayPal and not a malicious user. One way would be to pass a value using the custom attribute and have PayPal pass this back to you, however you'd be much better off using the API certificates etc.
If you haven't already, it may be worth checking out a few of the sample applications PayPal has done up, there seem to be quite a few PHP ones.
Let me know if you need anything else,
Use this, it works for me
$p->add_field('currency_code', 'GBP');
You need to use PayPal Adaptive Payments, IPN wouldn't help.
PayPal Adaptive Payments
Using PayPal PHP library then it could look like this:
// Create an instance, you'll make all the necessary requests through this
// object, if you digged through the code, you'll notice an AdaptivePaymentsProxy class
// wich has in it all of the classes corresponding to every object mentioned on the
// documentation of the API
$ap = new AdaptivePayments();
// Our request envelope
$requestEnvelope = new RequestEnvelope();
$requestEnvelope->detailLevel = 0;
$requestEnvelope->errorLanguage = 'en_GB';
// Our base amount, in other words the currency we want to convert to
// other currency type. It's very straighforward, just have a public
// prop. to hold de amount and the current code.
$baseAmountList = new CurrencyList();
$baseAmountList->currency = array( 'amount' => $this->amount, 'code' => 'GBP' );
// Our target currency type. Given that I'm from Mexico I would like to
// see it in mexican pesos. Again, just need to provide the code of the
// currency. On the docs you'll have access to the complete list of codes
$convertToCurrencyListUSD = new CurrencyCodeList();
$convertToCurrencyListUSD->currencyCode = 'USD';
// Now create a instance of the ConvertCurrencyRequest object, which is
// the one necessary to handle this request.
// This object takes as parameters the ones we previously created, which
// are our base currency, our target currency, and the req. envelop
$ccReq = new ConvertCurrencyRequest();
$ccReq->baseAmountList = $baseAmountList;
$ccReq->convertToCurrencyList = $convertToCurrencyListUSD;
$ccReq->requestEnvelope = $requestEnvelope;
// And finally we call the ConvertCurrency method on our AdaptivePayment object,
// and assign whatever result we get to our variable
$resultUSD = $ap->ConvertCurrency($ccReq);
$convertToCurrencyListUSD->currencyCode = 'EUR';
$resultEUR = $ap->ConvertCurrency($ccReq);
// Given that our result should be a ConvertCurrencyResponse object, we can
// look into its properties for further display/processing purposes
$resultingCurrencyListUSD = $resultUSD->estimatedAmountTable->currencyConversionList;
$resultingCurrencyListEUR = $resultEUR->estimatedAmountTable->currencyConversionList;

cannot get full shopping cart detail using GetExpressCheckoutDetails

I am currently testing an online store using a custom cart within paypal sandbox.
I am able to go trough all transcation steps properly
setExpressCheckout-> pay -> DoExpressCheckout.
During the DoExpressCheckout step I think it would be the good time to update my database with the order. For that I use the GetExpressCheckoutDetails function to retrieve the content of the transaction.
Sadly this function return everything paypal has to offer but miss the content of my cart. All i can get is the detail of one item. If the transaction involve multiple items i would only get the details of the first one.
Here is my code (mostly taken from paypal samples) :
$token =urlencode( $_REQUEST['token']);
$payerId=urlencode( $_REQUEST['PayerID']);
$getExpressCheckoutDetailsRequest = new GetExpressCheckoutDetailsRequestType($token);
$getExpressCheckoutReq = new GetExpressCheckoutDetailsReq();
$getExpressCheckoutReq->GetExpressCheckoutDetailsRequest = $getExpressCheckoutDetailsRequest;
$paypalService = new PayPalAPIInterfaceServiceService();
$getECResponse = $paypalService->GetExpressCheckoutDetails($getExpressCheckoutReq);
$details = $getECResponse->GetExpressCheckoutDetailsResponseDetails;
// $details->PaymentDetails->PaymentDetailsItem this array should hold all items details
// sadly it always have 1 element instead of the full content of my cart :(
$orderTotal = $details->PaymentDetails->OrderTotal;
$PaymentDetails= new PaymentDetailsType();
$PaymentDetails->OrderTotal = $orderTotal;
//
Some stuff with payment details
//
$DoECRequestDetails = new DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequestDetailsType();
$DoECRequest = new DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequestType();
$DoECRequest->DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequestDetails = $DoECRequestDetails;
$DoECReq = new DoExpressCheckoutPaymentReq();
$DoECReq->DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequest = $DoECRequest;
$DoECResponse = $paypalService->DoExpressCheckoutPayment($DoECReq);
Do i miss a step or call a bad function. Because i tried to print_r every variable i came across and the full content of my cart was nowhere to be found. I find this strange since the 'orderTotal' of the transaction match with my original cart. I could store my original order during the SetExpressCheckout step but since paypal already have those values i find it redundant.
As a last resort I did found the content of my cart using $paypalService->getLastRequest() but seriously this is the raw XML returned by paypal and the api should be parsing it properly :(.
Thanks for reading
I had this exact same issue - while the XML returned by PayPal is fine, their PHP SDK doesn't parse it properly, so you can only ever see the last item in GetExpressCheckout.
I've posted a fix for this problem in an issue on PayPal's GitHub, please check it out:
https://github.com/paypal/SDKs/issues/37