I'm new to paypal i had used balanced payments in past.
consider the following scenario
I'm running a business of renting vehicles when a customer registers
to rent i have to deduct the rent amount(no of days * rent amount per day) from his account and have a
hold for the deposit amount of the vehicle which will be returned to
customer when he returns vehicle
i went through paypal documentation but could not find how to create this hold manually
I'm looking for something equivalent to CREATE HOLD and RELEASE HOLD of balanced in PAYPAL
I believe the most appropriate mechanism in PayPal for the functionality you describe is authorization/capture.
You can let user authorize payment using PayPal Express Checkout API for the deposit amount and for the rent eamount. When customer returns the vehicle, you can capture the payment using DoCapture API call.
This model also supports multiple captures for the same authorization. Using that feature you can, for example, capture rent payments daily.
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I would like to ask you about regular payment in paypal using billing plans. I use the PHP library from paypal (REST API) to create billing plans and agreement for users but I have some problems:
I have two plans: STANDARD and PRO. What when the user buys a standard plan and after some time will be want to switch to another? What with the old subscription? I don't see the option to cancel subscription via REST API. Should I create a personal billing plan for every user and in this case update this changes?
My plans include some additional parameters like: ,,How many people can use one account" - and this parameter influences on the final price. I don't know what I should do to get regular payments with flexible parameters.
Should I create a billing plan for every user and then create an agreement for this personal billing plan? What if user paid for 12 months and after 9 months will want to change some parameters - then I should upgrade price in the billing price (for stability in the next billing cycle) and to get this difference in plan costs I should create the normal payment by http://paypal.github.io/PayPal-PHP-SDK/sample/doc/payments/CreatePaymentUsingPayPal.html?
Cheers!
I am looking for alternatives to stripe's per-user pricing subscription : I need :
to charge my user a recurring payment which depends on the number of user accounts he has
to be able to change the number of users via an API, with customer validation is ok, but ideally without changing a plan nor creating a new type of plan. Check status, cancel, etc. via the API too.
Ideally with no up-front charge = fee + percentage of transaction
I found out that stripe might be a good option (see per-user pricing here https://stripe.com/docs/subscriptions) and unfortunately Paypal does not seem to offer this kind of feature (plans can only be increased by 20% each 180 days or you need to cancel previous profile and create a new one). Or am I mistaking about Paypal ?
What alternatives would exist for such needs?
What you want are Reference Transactions, in which case you run an original authorization or sale transaction, and then in the future you'd run DoReferenceTransaction with the original transaction ID and any new amount you need to process. It will process immediately without any redirection or additional authorization required at that point.
If you use reference transactions with Payments Pro (direct credit cards) then all you need to do is save the original auth or sale transaction ID to your database so that you can pull it out for the user when you need to process a future payment using DoReferenceTransaction.
For PayPal payments you'll use Express Checkout w/ Billing Agreements, which will give you back a billing agreement ID. In that case, the billing agreement ID is what you'd pass into future calls to DoReferenceTransaction.
In either case you'll need to build your own system to lookup payments that need to be processed each day and loop through them making a call to DoReferenceTransaction for each one.
I have a site that bills variable monthly amounts based on the subscriber's usage (typically $3 to $60). Currently, the 200 or so subscribers set up a monthly PP subscription that may or may not match their usage. I would probably use IPN to collect that info, but currently do it by hand.
I would like to use an API to request and receive the exact monthly amount. Which API? I have read elsewhere that Adaptive Payments may be the one to use, but is that appropriate/accessible to my business size?
Additionally, where would I post a request for a programmer for such?
You would need to utilize Reference Transactions for that.
Basically, you setup a billing agreement with the user an then you can use the Billing Agreement ID that you get back with the DoReferenceTransaction API any time in the future to process any amount necessary without further approval.
So you'll need to create your own system to automatically process payments on a daily basis as necessary, but this method will allow you to handle variable amounts.
If you're using Payments Pro you can do the same thing, but you don't do a "billing agreement". What you can do instead is run a $0 authorization, and then you would use the transaction ID you get back from that in the DoReferenceTransaction request instead of a Billing Agreement ID.
Is there a way to create postpaid subscription with paypal ? Basically what I want is to charge some amount at the end of the month from user paypal account.
That amount of money depends on how much minutes he spend on our service during that month...
With Payments Standard Subscriptions you can't change the amount billed. Using Recurring Payments through Express Checkout you're able to change the amount but only by 20%.
If you set up a billing agreement through Express Checkout you can use the Reference Transaction API calls to bill a customer whatever amount you need to. There are additional features that need to be enabled on an account to allow you to use Reference Transactions.
In the SetExpressCheckout call you define the billing agreement terms and when you submit the DoExpressCheckoutPayment API call you define the exact same billing terms that you included in the first API call.
I am trying to use the Recurring payment API offered by PayPal.
I have a scenario which I am not able to address directly. It goes like this.
We have a website where we sell some services. Now the services are charged per user license. A user can buy/cancel user license in between. We want to offer the customer a recurring billing option. We have to notice here that the amount may vary each billing cycle based on the number of user licenses the customer uses during that cycle.
Is there any way I can achieve this using PayPal recurring Payment API's.
I realize this is a very old post, but it still shows up for Google searches, so I thought I'd add:
Paypal does allow you to do this now, using their new adaptive payments api.
Authorize.net also has a service that might work called Customer Information Manager.
The recurring payment option is a fixed amount that the customer pre-agrees to pay each month (or period). To do what you're trying to do, a customer would have to pre-agree to pay whatever amount you decide to charge at a later time. This means pre-authorizing an unknown payment amount, which will not be allowed by any payment service.
Your only options are:
Bill the variable amount each month (i.e. no subscription).
Set up a subscription where the monthly amount is the maximum that could potentially be billed, and then refund the difference each month.
Good luck with #2 - I would never agree to such a thing as a customer, personally.
What you're looking for is covered in the UK by the Direct Debit system, however given the potential for abuse it's very tightly controlled and there are a lot of restrictions and regulations governing it.
I'd strongly suggest you just set up a monthly invoicing system that just bills the client each month.
I don't know its meaning full or not as it is a very old post.
Instead of creating recurring profile on PayPal Server, You can store the customer's credit card on the PayPal using REST API: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#vault then every month you can fetch it and charge it like recurring Payment Or When client is no longer with the services then just remove its card from PayPal.
I suppose Authorize.net SIM method also does the same.
Hope this make sense.