I'm trying to create a custom form with the ability to process credit card direct donations, as well as paypal account donations, and the ability to select whether the amount paid is a regular monthly donation or a one time. I cannot find documentation anywhere on how to use the paypal REST API for donations. There doesn't seem to be an intent type for donation anywhere, or any option for monthly or one time payments. Does anyone have any experience with this? I understand how the commercial payment API works, but I'm not sure what options need to be changed for donations.
The easiest way is to add Buy Now button to your site. It is just plain HTML code, no server code is needed. When someone donated you recieve email with details including amount of payment and email of donator. So you can reply him "Thank you" :)
Please note, in some countries you should verify your paypal account before accepting payments. It can be done in "View limits" menu.
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I do all my accounting in Quickbooks Online and customers can pay invoices online. However sometimes I need to accept a payment that isn't tied to one specific invoice. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone can confirm which of these options are feasible and simplest/easiest way to implement. I'd like to avoid a PayPal Payments Pro Subscription as I will rarely need this functionality but if that's the only way, then so be it.
1) Send the customer a link to a simple payment form where either they can enter any payment amount or it pre-populates with the requested amount. (I'd prefer not to have to code a payment form on my site. I'd just like to do it with an iframe, framing in a PayPal hosted payment form.)
2) Create a payment request but email them the link to the request payment form myself rather than the request being mailed separately from PayPal.
You might have a look at the "Quickbooks Payment Request Wizard". it allows you to easily insert a PayPal payment button in e-mail versions of your QuickBooks invoices and estimates.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=xpt/Marketplaces/seller/QuickBooksPaymentWizardIntro-outside
A similar version of this tool allows you to embed a payment button into an Outlook email.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/sell/payment_wizard_intro-outside
Both tools are free and require only a standard PayPal Business or Premier account.
Can I improve user experience, e.g. show product description, and highlight "Pay using your credit card", with simple Paypal buttons?
I offer a paid service on my website, with monthly subscription, fixed amount each month. I don't need the user's address, and there's only 1 "product".
Currently I created a simple "paypal button", which works fine, but I want to improve it, and possibly make it even shorter, but didn't find out how to:
highlight "pay with credit card",
I don't want to force users into logging into their paypal account (users with paypal account get error: "You cannot use an e-mail address or card number that belongs to an existing PayPal account")
show the user the product details/descriptions as in the picture:
Although I'm a programmer, I prefer not to use any API calls, especially since it doesn't seem to be necessary in my simple case.
How can I add these elements?
Is there an option with paypal to send users directly to a credit-card payment screen?
You'll need to switch to the Express Checkout API to show item details and force the credit card option. Even then, though, if the user has the credit card added to a PayPal account they're going to have to sign in and pay that way rather than use the CC form. Also, if you're working with recurring payments they'll need a PayPal account anyway.
The only way to avoid that is to sign up for PayPal Payments Pro so you can tie the credit card form directly into your website with no redirect to PayPal at all.
You'll need to enable Recurring Billing on Pro, too, after it's approved and enabled, and then your users can choose to sign up with PayPal (where you'd use Express Checkout) or Pro (where they'd enter a credit card directly.)
If you're really that set on not using API's you could apply for Enhanced Recurring Payments for Payments Standard, but I haven't fully tested that to see about passing order item details to the review pages.
We are developing a website for a charity trust in India. For this we need to add a "donate" button to the website for anyone who wants to donate to the charity through a payment gateway.
However, both Paypal and Google Wallet / Google Checkout restrict the use of the "donate" button in India (Google, rather than a donate button, provide a "support" button).
Are either of these payment gateways possible to integrate into a website in India? Or are there any other alternatives?
Indian merchants cannot use Donation buttons through PayPal. If you tried to pass cmd=_donations in your button code the buyer would get an error.
If you want to allow buyers to enter their own amount during the checkout process you can do that with a Buy Now button. Leave the amount field blank to allow that.
Update (Dec 1 2015):
CitrusPay does NOT support donations as of Apr 2014
Original Answer below:
Yes we have few alternatives.
Here i have given one real time Example Payment gateway:
In India you can able to Integrate the Donation Button to your website for the Charity Donations through the Citrus Pay Payment Gateway.
Only thing you need to Contact +91 87677 09900 customer care of Citrus Pay. They will guide you based on your requirement Mail.
Citrus is the Quick responding payment gateway, comparing other payment gateway for small transactions. See the Citrus Customers
Also Citrus Providing the Mobile Support. You can integrate Mobile native apps.
Note : Once if you share your details. They will share their details like payments, Terms & Conditions, Support limitations & Integration tips and Guidance and Details.
You can make a "buy now button" and place a "donate button" in place of "buy now button". Also there are other configurations which you can find in, how to create donate button for indian website
Hope This will help you.
Why dont you use State Bank of India Collect OR create buy now button using paypal with price as blank (allows user to choose any amount) and then get code. Now replace a link from code https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif
to https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif
I need to allow users to pay via Credit Card on my site. I'm trying to find suitable API option but can't find it. I have implemented payment via PayPal so far, but now I need to allow users to pay via credit card without account on PayPal.
Anyone knows what specific payment type that is?
Here is one way:
First, you'll need a Website Payments Pro merchant account with PayPal. Then, become familiar with the DoDirectPayment API, which will allow you to
process transactions on your site with PayPal working in the background. Customers will be able to fill out their credit card information, etc., on your site without visiting PayPal directly.
This also means that customers will not be required to have a PayPal account in order to make a transaction on your site.
If you proceed this way, you will need SSL certificates, and are required to implement Express Checkout for customers who do not want to make their transaction on your site.
Sample Code to get your feet wet. Good luck!
I want to integrate paypal in my website. But my requirement is, I dont want my customers to go into paypal site for payment. (I know it is not a secure way, but it is my requirements) Is there a way such that I can do credit card checks in backend using paypal APIs ? If so, which method to be used? I want it for "singapore" country and SGD as currency.
Waiting for your suggestions!!!
Thanks in advance. :)
Are you trying to avoid your users having to navigate to PayPal or are you trying to 'hide' the use of PayPal?
The prior should be easy enough to resolve. PayPay provide several tools (and instructions) on how to build a "Pay Now" button, which you can manipulate server side to include a dynamic amount and order ID etc. This would forward the user to a PayPal page to login and confirm payment, then return them to your site (any page you specify) on completion. You can also link this to an IPN. The PayPal payment page can be skinned / branded to an extent.
What you are looking is called Direct Payment. Here is more info about it:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_WPDirectPayment
Maybe you are looking for this Paypal product