Do PayPal's REST Api support Third Party shopping carts the way their classic APIs do?
Yes, take a look at this info about getting a token for 3rd party users: Obtaining a User's Consent.
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I would like my website to be able to process PayPal payments on behalf of merchants. The merchants will have their own PayPal accounts and will need to give me permission to do so.
Permissions API Deprecated
PayPal have a "Permissions API" which allows a third-party such as a hosted shopping cart to process on behalf of PayPal merchants. See: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/permissions-service/integration-guide/PermissionsUsing/
The above page says:
Adaptive Accounts and Adaptive Payments are no longer available for
new integrations. PayPal provides documentation for these APIs to
support existing integrations.
PayPal REST API
Are these things possible using the PayPal REST API:
perform a handoff from my site to PayPal, have the merchant grant my site permissions to act on their behalf,
process payments on behalf of the merchant using the credentials obtained from the first step
Every merchant can obtain ClientID/Secret credentials from the Live tab of a REST API App via https://www.paypal.com/signin?intent=developer&returnUri=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.paypal.com%2Fdeveloper%2Fapplications , and enter them into their config interface on your platform.
It's is possible to use the PayPal "Marketplaces and Platforms" API to achieve this:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/platforms/seller-onboarding/
I have a Java application that has just been updated with e-commerce features that use the Paypal REST API (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/).
I have multiple customers who run this application, each of them can log in to their own admin panel and manage their store and other features.
The Java client for Paypal REST API is working, I have tested it in the Sandbox of my own Paypal account and also in the live environment.
Question: Will each customer have to go into their Paypal account and activate the REST API to generate their key/secret for use in the Java app or is their a way for me to pay multiple PP acounts from the App/key/secret that is already active for my own PP account?
The only thing the Java app is doing with the PP API is creating and executing a payment.
If each customer has to create their own key/secret is there a quick way for them to do this from their PP admin panel? Currently the only way I know is to go into the developer.paypal.com section of the site, which doesn't seem very intuitive for a non techy.
At this time the PayPal REST API does not support third party payments in that way. The customer would need to use developer.paypal.com as you suggested to get their own PayPal REST credentials.
You can collect money and send it out using your own REST credentials but this would make you the liable receiver for the purchase.
PayPal has solutions outside of the REST API that might work for you here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/marketplace-split-payments/
The Classic API does have a subject option, the subject is the third party. You do need permissions for some of the API calls; however, the permissions API can ease that process.
I'm in third-party applications (like PA), now want to join up ebay, so need to paypal user authorization. Such as user already through paypal give me the authorization of the API (Add New Third Party Permissions), How to through the user's paypal account, I get the user is authorized to me?
PayPal has lots of different APIs depending on what you're after. I would take a look at this for a list of all the Classic APIs, which are what you would use when working with a client who has granted API permissions for you.
For more details about the different PayPal products which utilize the individual APIs you can view the integration guides.
I am looking at building a product that integrates with PayPal new REST API. I can't find any information on connecting to other PayPal users accounts to make requests on their behalf. All I can find suggests that all of my users will have to login to developer.paypal.com and create their own App, and plug those credentials into the product I am building.
It seems like their should be a way to authenticate to a user's account and make requests on their behalf. Is there?
PayPal does have a way to authorize a third party to make calls on another party's behalf. There is even an API that can do this. The most straightforward way is for you to provide them your API username and they authorize you to run calls on their behalf and you call with their email address as a parameter (at least in Classic, REST may have a different method)
PayPal has a guide to all this on the Developer page (it's too extensive to excerpt).
I am looking into implementing Paypal Standard Payment product. The basic reason being "offsite payment" (i.e. we dont want payments being captured at our own site, but on paypal's own payment page via redirection).
However, previously I used to get it done via (now called) Classic API.. I wounder if the new REST API supports this offsite / paypal redirect standard payment method? This is because there is no mention of these classic products names on the REST documents (instead, they are listed in Classic API section only)
Secondly, does Paypal Standard (even via REST) support Direct Card payments? or only Paypal Account payment?
Thanks.
REST does not encompass all Classic API features. It's mainly for mobile development (although not exclusive to that), using OAuth, which is more familiar to mobile developers. Payments Standard is not an API product at all but it can be used in conjunction with API calls to a limited extent. Classic API has the Button Manager that lets you set up custom encrypted buttons that can start a Payments Standard payment.
REST does support direct payments and supports almost everything Classic does in that regard.