In our system, invoices are made with cronjob before few days (say 10 days) and are emailed to customer from system. Now our client need facility, that from email only, user can click on paypal button and proceed for payment. Can anyone let me know how to do that? I searched on paypal site and they said, you have to generate invoice from their system.
Thank you
Tejas Mehta
You could use the Invoice API's to send out an invoice from your account. You can find more on the Invoice API's here. There are also some SDK's and code samples on PayPal's Developer site as well that will help you get started.
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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.
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.
I have an app that is both Web and Mobile. I know what I am trying to do is a bit messy but I was hoping someone could help guide me through the options please. I have done some reading and check replies on Stackoverflow but I'm am getting confused.
The main criteria here is I do not want to have the users log in to PayPal every time, approve a transaction every time. So I guess part of the solution is to have them set up an Agreement to pay ?
I have a Business account.
a)
is it possible to transfer funds from a users bank account they have with paypal, to some other paypal account. In other words make a payment from their bank account to a specified paypal account they do not own (namely some merchant)
b)
is it possible to transfer funds from one paypal account to another. Lets say mine to someone else's.
c)
is it possible to transfer funds from one paypal account to another. Lets say someone else's to mine.
d)
is it possible to transfer funds from my paypal account to someone else's bank account.
e)
I guess PayPal IPN could be used for instant notification ?
All of the above needs to be done in the background without user involvement apart from them entering the amount, and say yes proceed. No passwords or bank account details to be entered etc.
I would preferably like to do the above on a web server rather than on a mobile device. So within server-side code.
thanks in advance
It is possible to do some of what you are asking using a Billing Agreement. In a BA, you agree that I can charge your Paypal account without a further login. It's a one-time setup.
You can use the MassPay API call to pay anyone. All you need is their email address. There is a fee to you to do this, tho.
You can make third party calls (where I make calls on your behalf) so it's theoretically possible for me to issue a MassPay on your behalf.
You cannot send money to a bank account (i.e. ACH-style). You can send it to their paypal and they can log in and move it from there.
All transactions will send an IPN if you have one specified.
Hope that helps
I developed a Web Application that accepts payments via the ExpressCheckout API, for users to become a members.
Everything works fine.
I now want to extend my Web Application Services and offer my users with the possibility to buy items which are sold by third parties (my members).
The principle I would like to implement is quite simple: for each order, let the user pay for the item they choose and then transfer a part of the amount I received to the item provider, and keep some money for me. I would like to automate this process so that once I received the payment notification, I compute the amount of money to transfer to the item provider who might or not have a Paypal account (in other words, this means that I could maybe need to transfer the money to a bank account, using the IBAN/SWIFT data) and then proceed with the money transfer.
I tried to find a solution reading your documentation and came across the "chained payment" but the latter does not seem to be used within the ExpressCheckout workflow.
Also, since my implementation of the ExpressCheckout flow works, I would not like to have to find a totally different solution but rather extend it... if possible.
Could you please tell me which is the best solution for me?
In advance, many thanks for your help.
You could do 1 of 2 things. You could use Express Checkout with parallel payments. This means you could split the transaction up between different accounts at the time of purchase. The other option would be to just receive all of the funds into your account, and then when you are wanting to send money to the other accounts you could either use the Adaptive Payments (Pay) API or the MassPayments API to send money to the other accounts. Keep in mind you would have to send it to their PayPal accounts, you would not be able to send it directly to a bank account with either one of these API's.
I had the same issue and I got an answer from PayPal that it is not allowed to use Express Checkout to transfer money to your PayPal account and - at a later point in time - transfer the amount minus your service fee (which stays on your PayPal account) via Adapative Payments API to the seller's PayPal account. PayPal suggested to use Chained Payments API instead. All works fine in the sandbox, but once you need a Live APP ID from PayPal they will review your business case and deny it. At least that what happened to me.
I know that is old question, but anyway, I tried to find solution and was enable to perform the simillar thing like described in question. So, then I asked paypal about this, and they gave me advice to use SellerDetailsType Fields that 's called PayPalAccountID, description for this field is Unique identifier for the merchant. For parallel payments, this field is required and must contain the Payer Id or the email address of the merchant. It wasn't clear for me to use this field for solving my problem. Here is link https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/SetExpressCheckout_API_Operation_SOAP/ I described field for soap request, for NVP it's called PAYMENTREQUEST_n_SELLERPAYPALACCOUNTID, but the idea is the same. I hope it will help someone.
I've got an enhancement from client and big trouble with answer if it is possible or not to do.
What I have is a web which provides seo service.
Client types phrase than chooses service option etc.
There are severals service options like:
single payment - service will be active per only 90 days
membership - client declare to pay a sum of money every 90days (recurring payment)
membership + extra support - same as membership but + extra sum of money
1) Suppose that client choosed first option and after 90 days decided to continue service.
Is it possible to set reccuring payment via paypal without need of client's interference* (we do not store any credit cards numbers in database).
2) Suppose that client choosed second option and after about 10 days decided to get extra support.
Is it possible to change sum of money which we are charging from client every 90 days, without his interference*.
* client don't have to fill up payment form (paypal side) once again.
I would be very grateful if anyone can help me with this issue. If it is possible which paypal accout do I have to get.
Thanks
Maciek
Thanks for reply. However I still don't get it.
Do you know how can I (as merchant) from my website/shop admin panel (not paypal profile site) cancel subscriber's subscription ?
In PDF "Recurring Payments API Overview" I have read that
"N O T E : There is currently no API access to allow merchants to modify or cancel a profile."
and in limitation:
"You cannot modify or cancel a recurring payment profile using the Recurring Payments API".
What can I do with this issue? Maybe there is another Paypal API that lets me to do what I want.
By the way reading PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide I found that without subscriber's log in it is not possible to upgrade his account. Is it possible to upgrade ( charge more money monthly) without his log in?
Thanks
Maciek
Yes, PayPal has a "subscription" mode to handle this sort of thing, including the ability to modify a subscription. See https://www.paypal.com/pdn-recurring.