I have a paypal business account and I possess non-Us/Canada business license. I run casual online dating site and pre-approved by paypal to sell monthly subscription digital goods.
The symptom is as follows:
In login profile -> overview -> my business type
If i add solution "digital goods(express checkout)", I cannot see it from dropdown or in any place. Instead, it shows just regular "express checkout".
I have tried adding all solutions in the "view all products", nevertheless I only managed to see 5 solutions instead of 6 in total.
I can conclude that i cannot add this solution.
anyone know how to solve above problem? I think 'Digital goods Express checkout is not enabled on my account'
It's going like this for almost 5 days.....
Related
Express Checkout Digital Goods is no longer available for new integrations. This feature remains available for merchant accounts that already have Express Checkout Digital Goods enabled.
What does this message mean. If i opened new account i cant use this method ?
A little late, but to anyone searching it in the future (if PayPal doesn't change it's mind):
PayPal has a few points in it's products that are a little weird and fall through the cracks. This is one of them.
I too was surprised by this note, but as a recently created account (less than two months), I can tell you: it still works.
The option to enable Digital Goods it in the menu wasn't working for me... the first time I contacted Paypal's support they sent me the same instructions (which didn't worked). They said they would fix it but I found the correct link online. Just to assure you: I a friend waited for support and they enabled it for him.
I used the link below to enable Digital Goods for my account (menu option present on account ended up in the PayPal home page after some redirects): https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=acct_setup/product_selection_page&fli=true.
Good integration (and good sales)! ;]
I've worked with WPP for about 5 years now, and it's really ridiculous how difficult it is to get some simple information. I know how to sign up for WPP: that's not what this question is about.
The question is, for an existing LIVE paypal merchant account, how do I tell definitively and quickly whether WPP has been activated? I can tell via API when I get the error code 10501 in response, but that is unacceptably late and cumbersome.
My clients can't navigate the byzantine paypal dot com, and I don't know what to tell them. It's making me look like an idiot.
One way you can ensure that the billing is live is to do the following:
Log in to your PayPal account.
Click Profile.
Click Manage Monthly Billing under "Billing" on the right side of the page.
You can cancel and reactivate your billing here as well (as long as PayPal did not deactivate your billing).
Here is where to find Manage Monthly Billing It also says if the products are live here, but you cannot edit the billing from this page. The Manage Monthly Billing Page allows you to cancel the billing or reactivate it.
Here's the Profile View for Website Payments Pro (not a Payflow Account):
If your billing is active it will look like this:
If you have a PayPal Payments Pro Payflow Edition account, you can log into PayPal Manager at https://manager.paypal.com
The home page of PayPal Manager once logged in shows the status of the account. This particular one is in test status. Here is the profile view
If you have a 1.5 edition of PayPal Pro this is an older setup.
Click on Profile
Click on My Money
Click Update next to My Pre Approved Payments
Click PayPal Monthly Billing.
If you have a PayPal Billing Agreement and it is Active it will be listed in My Preaproved Payments and also under More Financial Settings . If it is active then your Payments Pro 1.5 is active. If you do not see the billing agreement anywhere then you do not have an active PayPal Pro 1.5 Billing Agreement.
I just spoke on the phone with PayPal sales and here is what they told me. There is no way when you log into a general PayPal account to see if the organization has PayPal Payments Pro activated. The only way to find this out is to ask the organization if they have a "PayPal Manager" (https://manager.paypal.com) account. If they don't, then the organization doesn't have PayPal Payments Pro setup.
Once they apply for PayPal Payments Pro it usually takes about 5 - 6 days for the process to finalize and their account to be setup. They also told me that if you apply online please don't use Google Chrome, instead use Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I have a store running opencart which already has a fully functional shopping cart running, it is just requesting an API and authentication details.
So, how can I simply setup a API and be done with it, do i need to setup a sandbox account etc.
I just want a very simple setup for accepting payments via paypal and credit cards in NZ
Ive checked all the online guides and they are all for older layouts/designs of paypal.
Any help much appreciated!
Thanks
The only thing You need to is to install and enable (both if not yet done) the PayPal standard (or Paypal Express checkout) payment options in OpenCart administration - as far as I understand Your problem clearly.
Go to administration Extensions -> Payments and here scroll to find the PayPal payment options (should be three by default: PayPal Standard, PayPal Website Payment Pro and PayPal Website Payment Pro UK) - PayPal Standard should be Your bet. If Install action is available on the right, click on it and afterwards click on Edit action. Insert Your account information, select Enabled status and Your are done.
Now users should be able to select this payment option and after confirming the order they should be redirected to PayPal to pay for their orders.
I've been trying this for few days. I've created some seller accounts, one of them I created early this year and it was working fine. Then when I return for this project this March, Paypal changed the API from x.com to developer.paypal.com. The old seller accounts were still working fine and can still accept the digital goods payments from the payer accounts that I created recently, however the new seller accounts, with BUSINESS type, suppose to be able to pay and accept payments got some issues. These newly created seller accounts receive the following warning:
You are not signed up to accept payment for digitally delivered goods.
Doing some research with google, I released I have to set the paypal business account for digital goods. But I can't find where to set it from the new paypal developer control panel. Even when I tried to log in to the sandbox version of paypal.com, using the seller accounts I created in the sandbox, I still can't find where I can set it. In my business setup, there are only two options for me, one is Paypal payments pro and other other is "Virtual Terminal". Any idea? Please help....
I've found the way to add express checkout for digital goods in sandbox, but I think Paypal should pay attention to this because the way I used was very clumsy.
First sign in to sandbox and choose a business account to log in to the sandbox by using the url provided in the Application/Sanbox Accounts. Then use the account that you want to set to accept digital goods checkout to log into the sandbox url, it should be www.sandbox.paypal.com/us/home
After logged in, go to my business setup and pay attention to the setup my payment solution. Click the view all products and you will be redirected to a new page. Please note the url now, the "sandbox" is missing. Now click on the express checkout button, or whatever you want to add to the payment solution, you will be redirected again. Now pay attention to the url, insert "sandbox" to the url, e.g www.paypal.com you have to replace it with www.sandbox.paypal.com, the rest of the url remain the same. Then press enter you will be redirected back to the business setup page. Now you can see your payment solution has become express checkout. It is stupid and I hope paypal can let us choose this directly from the control panel in the near future.
An alternative hides in Profile > My selling tools > API access > Update > At the bottom - Enable Express Checkout.
When I later go to My Account > My Business Setup I see: "Your payment solution: PayPal Digital Goods (Express Checkout)"
Had a nice little custom button with a few parameters I was POSTing to PayPal (and getting POSTed back via IPN) a few years ago working fine. Payments were disabled for several years, but now my client wants to resume subscriptions with their new campaign.
I switched back to the sandbox hostname/merchant accounts, did a sandbox transaction with a test Visa card, and all was well.
Switched it to the live hostname/merchant account, went to do another test with a real Visa, but noticed that not only has the real PayPal site been completely rebranded/redesigned, they now seem to be forcing you to create a PayPal account: on the sandbox, there's a blurb with a link that says "continue" which takes you right to the credit card/billing information (this is identical to what the live PayPal site used to look like a few years ago).
NOTE: The merchant account has changed; I'm not sure if that matters or not and/or if there's any settings in there I need to change.
Question: is this the way it is now with PayPal? I can't seem to find any official information that says yes/no. Besides the Express, is there any other IPN method that'll work here or is this a policy thing at PayPal? I'd hate to rewrite my working/tested code, but this isn't going to fly with my client.
Yahel's answer is incorrect: I called PayPal, and they explained that the following conditions must be met in order to accept non-PayPal payments:
The business email address must be confirmed. You can check by going to Profile > Email.
PayPal Account Optional must be checked:
Go to www.paypal.com.au and log in to your Business account.
Click 'Profile icon' near the top right of the page (next to "Log out" button)
Click "Profile & settings"
Click ‘My selling tools.’
Click ‘Update' beside 'Website preferences.’
Select 'On' under 'PayPal Account Optional' near the bottom of the page.
Click 'Save.'
Yes paypal has been forcing users to create an account for a long time now. Before that you could use a credit card up to 10 times and then it would force you to create an account anyway.
The reason you are seeing the old branding in your sandbox is probably because it is you old sandbox on an old paypal server.
Last I tried there was no way around this new policy.
But djechelon is right, they have an excellent customer service, give them a call.
PayPal does force people to create accounts, even when they want to just make a single payment. I was puzzled by this situation too: I was choosing the option to pay without a PayPal account, but still was forced to provide all the private details enough for PayPal to create an account for me against my wishes. Very sneaky of PayPal! Then I found this page and that explained a lot.
This is the message I received in my PayPal Account:
PayPal Account Optional
When this feature is turned on, your customers will go through an optimized checkout experience. This feature is available for Buy Now, Donations, and Shopping Cart buttons, but not for Subscription buttons.
So you cannot provide a regular "Subscribe" experience to non-PayPal customers. I believe you must pay the $19.99 a month "Enhanced Subscription" for this.
PayPal Has a Purchasing Limit of $3,000 for "Guests".
I ran into this issue as well and #gravyface was bang on with setting your account preferences. However, my customers were still having issues paying without a PayPal account.
I called PayPal and it turns out they have a $3,000 (cumulative) purchasing limit for "guests". My customer's invoice was for $7,000 so even though my preferences were set to make the PayPal account optional, it still would not go through.
Hope that helps others.
JP