We have a company that designed our website and we have pay pal standard set up to take payments. It works great except for theres times where there is a double order because the notifications from paypal go to one sales person and another sales guy handles the website orders. The notifications could be from more than just the website so the sales guy doesn't think anything of it when putting in the order and the notification however doesn't update on our website if the order is filed by that sales person and vis versa. Also we run into the issue of the shipping and billing addresses being different and matching them since the website shows who its going to as the main name and the pay pal will show the billing name. Any suggestions on what we can do to make it easier on our sales team?
I would HIGHLY recommend you implement paypal-ipn and process the orders into your system that way. That notice would let you use a program to process the order data into your system and avoid issues like multiple entries, keying errors, etc.
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I am starting a business and I would like to offer Paypal as a payment option, but for my business it is essential to be able to block an amount of money, just like a car rental or a hotel does on a credit card. Would it be possible to block an amount from my users PayPal account and release it or book it for good later?
My business is of course an online service, and I want to do this pragmatically in a Spring based application.
I think what you are looking for is Authorization and capture.
I haven't used that feature from Paypal, but have used it elsewhere. What you are looking for is usually called card authorization, preauthorization, or preauth.
Yes it's possible
PayPal's REST API offer 3 primary ways to ensure you paid for product/services that you give to your customers
sale. Makes an immediate payment so you get paid immediately
authorize. Authorizes a payment for capture later.(this is what you see in a car rental or hotel)
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/payments/authorize-and-capture-payments/
order. Creates an order. - which gives you the flexibility to
multiple to do multiple authorizations and captures (these are for
complex use cases such as when you buy a computer from Dell you would
be authorized for the desktop, monitor, keyboard at different points
of time based on availability and then the funds captured when they
are shipped)
Does anyone know of a payment-processing service (2checkout.com, braintree.com or something like a transpact.com) or indeed a method that will allow you to refund the customer's payment, and also pay them back extra, to their CC or paypal account? "Refund" could be a confusing word here, so let me explain:
They pay €10 by CC, you pay them back €16.66.
So it would be an escrow-type system. Say 10 users set a goal for themselves (there will be a few goals to choose from), and put €10 each into the escrow (pay with CC or paypal).
Now there is €100 in the escrow.
4 users do not complete the goal, so they forfeit their contribution. This leaves the €100 to be divided among the 6.
The remaining 6 users will now receive €16.66 each.
Is there a way of paying each individual user who completed the goal their initial sum + the remainder of the escrow / by no. of users left?
Is their a service that will let you 'compensate' customers for instance?
Many thanks.
That would be a non-referenced credit, which allows you to push funds to a credit cards without refunding an original transaction, and you can set the amount to whatever you need.
If everybody has PayPal accounts you could just use the Pay API to send money to each one accordingly.
If you're working with PHP my class library will make this very simple for you.
Is paypal a suitable system for handling event ticket payments. All I want to do is create a page with event details, a list of hOw many tickets are left and a secure payment handling. Systems like eventwax seem to charge for use of there system and then paypal charges you too. I just dont get why people are paying twice. Also does anyone have any other recommendations for similar sites like eventwax
Google Checkout lets you do something that will work for you. Basically you create a Google Docs spreadsheet that follows a special format and contains the items that you sell and the quantities remaining. Then, you can make an HTML button that you can embed in your page. When a user clicks the button, it processes the selling of a specific item from that spreadsheet. Google handles everything else automatically - it subtracts one from the quantity field in the spreadsheet, processes the payment and sends you an email with the purchase and shipping details. Little to no programming required.
Of course, this can't work with PayPal.
First off, paypal comes in many different flavors. From the simple they host the order form and process payments way on up to all you do is pass them the credit card info and charge amount and they process it.
With that in mind I don't believe they support selling a limited quantity of items. This is something you would have to provide with your site.
Which leaves us with: are you asking a "how do I code this" type of question or something more general. If the former then please provide language and what you have so far. If the latter, then you might try at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com
Now regarding eventwax charging for usage, that is a perfectly legit thing to do. They are providing a service which allows people to sell a limited number of things, ensure that those things aren't over sold (which can be difficult depending on your db transactional experience), and handle payment processing.
All said and done there are really several companies which will get a piece of the action so to speak. Paypal is one, the credit card companies are another. If you are using paypal's payflow pro gateway then there is at least two other companies involved: your bank and the transaction processor themselves.
Which leads us to why people pay companies like event wax. Quite frankly, it's easy they don't have to screw around with programming something, and it works right now. There's a lot that can be said about doing things this way. Usually you just include all of this into the cost of doing business.
Here is what I need:
Let's say I have a hotel rooms rental website
People can come rent a room for some period and pay with paypal(first they pay, than thay get a room)
In some cases person might want to use some services when they are staying in hotel (like room service, mini bar, etc.) - So after person leaves I need to charge them with that extras..
How it works in paypal ? the only thing I found is subscribe options - but they are like per-month, per-day subscriptions.. And I need manually charge some amount from customer from my site
Does it possible ?
The standard way of doing that is to pre-authorize a charge for $200-$500 without completing the transaction. After person leaves you add up everything and finalize the transaction with the right amount. You can do that using PayPal API if you have Website Payments Pro ($30/month). Check "Authorization Payment Action" on page 93 in WPP Integration Guide:
https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/PP_WPP_IntegrationGuide.pdf
Why don't you total up all amounts for all selected services and then pass that total amount to paypal.
Another option is to send a 'cart-overview' with multiple items to paypal. This way you can seperate the rental price from the extra options prices (like breakfast, full pension, etc). Some info about setting up a multiple-items cart can be found here
I'm trying to integrate a payment mechanism to my site. The scenario that I need is not trivial and can be explained by the following example:
User pays upfront for a subscription program (i.e. receiving Netflix). User is able to make changes to the subscription (i.e. change number of movies checked out each time from 4 to 2)
User is able to buy additional one time purchases via the provider's site (Netflix) supplied by 3rd parties. These items (i.e. popcorn, snacks) get billed to the same credit card as the subscription without having to go through the process of resubmitting the credit card information.
Of course, my site takes also a small fee for the transactions :-)
I was wondering if this is supported by PayPal, Google Checkout or someone else.
Thanks.
The Paypal api can handle all of those processes.
I seem to have dropped the ball on what kind of answer you wanted so I'll leave it at that.
If you have some feedback, more direct questions I will try to answer as much as I can
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The money would best go through you first, unless somehow you can convince your customers its normal to bill them per item. Also if they pay by credit card you should only bill them once as you would incur fees on every payment. I don't know of anyway to bill once but distribute the payments.
As for the paypal docs..
Very good resource, there is also some sample code for most major web languages
Also this will get you started if you don't have a developer login
Their developer support is also pretty good. One thing a lot of people seem to screw up when starting out with the paypal api is not setting the latest version in the configs so don't forget to update that to the latest release. :)
Disclaimer..
Yea I know there is a lot of bad press about paypal and crazy stuff happening, but they do get the job done most of the time, its not my fault the customers love to use it.