I am setting up an online store using PayPal.
My issue is that I can only choose a fixed price for shipping (og percentage based which isn't relevant)
I am based in Europe, so shipping one item to europe or one item to the US is a huge difference, but I can't find a way to differentiate between them.
I'm aware that this is on the verge of being non-code related, but I'm thinking that there might be a way around this using an api or something along those line?
You could calculate the shipping on your side, and pass that shipping about over to PayPal as the amount to charge for shipping. There are several different ways to do this, some of which would depend on how you are currently integrated with PayPal.
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I want to create a "personal finance" app with Flutter.
I want to access my bank account stats from my app in order to keep track of the money I spend and/or I earn.
Is that possibile? (which I think it is 'cause other apps seem to do it)
And if it is, what's the smartest & safest way?
Well, flutter can help you achieve this based on the following:
Your financial institution permits you to carry out such actions.
Your financial institution provides necessary API's for such developments.
I am trying to build buying store. Therefore, it is opposite traditional website. I need to create coupon which gives bonus to customer who sell product to me. However, Discount code don't allow to do that. Do you know where i need to change phtml,xml, or php file or files need to change.
For example,
If customers sell their items using promotion code, we will give extra 5$.
But I want to know which code they used.
you need to use custom extension for that. either you need to create or purchase from third party. if you have that one already then please mention.
We're offering Paypal checkout as a way to purchase items on our website, and offer our goods internationally. Our problem is that when a user selects Paypal there's no easy way to set a shipping cost based on their location...
For instance if a user is from the USA, his/her shipping cost will be $3.85
If a user is from the UK, his/her shipping cost will be $5
Aside from having users pre-select their country (which seems pretty flimsy because they could just select domestic, then change their address to something international) is there a way for Paypal to adjust shipping based on user's shipping address??
Does https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/shipping/EasyCalculateShipAndTax-outside help at all? It describes a way to (within PayPal's interface) pre-set shipping costs for different destination countries.
It looks like this article and thread may have fallen into the abyss but I thought I might chime in and give my two sense.
The challenges I have struggled with around international sales are really two parts.
First, and I won't dive too deeply as its more related to the merchant service and credit card processing side of the business, but merchant services and payment gateways have yet to deploy a system that roots out fraud. The unfortunate fact is that assuming a customer abroad uses a fraudulent credit card it will almost certainly slide through the gateway and merchant services as a good sale, then deposited into the retailer bank account, only to be identified as suspicious weeks later. Naturally the banks reach in and extract the fraudulent funds and leave the retailer holding the bag.
The other side of it the logistics, and more precisely the competitive or noncompetitive pricing leading to sales.
Amazon.com has been a steamroller throughout the marketplace and many would argue the vast benefits it has brought with it byway of competitive forces. Amazon has been a God send to many particularly small businesses who without the Amazon marketing advantage would be little more than a doodle on the back of a napkin at the looking drinking hole. They are great at reaching a domestic consumer and their impact in the larger international space is growing fast.
But for those of us who try to sell through our own website, foregoing the massive commissions paid to the behemoth, it can be a little daunting to tackle the international shipping.
First, the rates. Getting rates that compete is tough. Have you seen the retail rates from Fedex, DHL, or TNT? They are insanely expensive and unrealistic for a retailer. I negotiated rates with UPS, TNT, and DHL, but the results were not good. Not enough volume to drive real discounts. This is when competing with Amazon makes you feel really really small.
I'm measuring the percentage of lost business against incremental increases to shipping rates and its extreme.
Frankly, as a seller who has evolved through the past decade of Amazon ups and downs I've learned through heartache and loosing lots of money, whether through BiG Bank Merchant Services who take no prisioners or the hefty costs for international shipping. Where I have moved my inventories is away from Amazon and FBA and into fulfillment centers capable of handling all my logistics issues.
For instance, reverse logistics. For those of you who may be new to the term, it refers to the process of returning merchandise from end consumer to merchant. Managing this with international customers can be complex. Additionally, fulfillment centers offer volume rates I'm not able to get on my own with the aforementioned carriers; UPS, FEDEX, DHL, TNT. Rather, the fulfillment operations I work with tend to be flexible and understand the cost correlation associated with international sales.
The fulfillment companies I have used are:
Good - Amazon FBA
Better - Shipwire
Best - Newgistics
I won't ooze over any of them, but I'll say that as my requirements have evolved FBA was incapable of keeping pace. With the other solutions I have full EDI integration by and between me and all my distribution partners. Partners that make life a lot more manageable.
As for international shipping rates that beat retail published rates, check out these international shipping calculators:
USPS
DHL
MyUS
American eBox
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These will at the very least send you in a direction that makes sense.
I hope this personal recount provides help to those who are transitioning through differing stages of growth.
I have a website where people do simple cognitive psychology experiments. Currently, people volunteer. To increase numbers of responses, I would like to offer micropayments in a manner similar to Mechanical Turk*.
My question is, What would would be the best system to use to make these payments? I would guess that both paypal and flattr would be options. Has anyone with experience with setting up a micropayment system like this be able to offer advice?
cheers,
Mark
*I am not thinking about using mechanical turk itself, just because I do not think I would be able to control the web based studies exactly I would need.
Flattr would work in your scenario:
Each person doing the test would need a Flattr account.
They’d need to login with their Flattr account on your site (like on fundd.de) or connect your site with their Flattr (easy with OAuth).
Once they’ve taken the test you manually Flattr them and by controlling your monthly budget you control how much each click is worth.
Our API makes setting this up fairly easy and straightforward http://developers.flattr.net/
Downsides:
Required to sign up with an additional service.
Flattr currently caps monthly spending at €100 so if you have lots and lots of testers you’d run into problems of making the payment high enough. We are reconsidering this, at least for users in good standing.
Monetary incentives for testers bring in a different crowd and can influence the results of their tests but you probably already know that.
Cheers,
Teller
PS. I work at Flattr.
we are using Paypal Pro's Hosted solution for payments and finding that a lot of orders aren't completed when customers go to the payment page (one customer complained that they could only select Australia and United States for the shipping country!), we've found a lot of inconsistency with Paypal's service and 25% of orders aren't complete.
Worldpay seems like good alternative, does anyone have experience of both Worldpay and Paypal, is Worldpay more reliable?
Is Worldpay's documentation any good? Paypal's is terrible.
Are there any other alternatives?
We're trying to keep it simple by having the IMA and gateway all in one and process around £3k-£4k of payments a month.
Take a look at Avangate - www.avangate.com
This question is a few months old, but I'll answer it anyway.
PayPal's documentation is quite bad, but WorldPay isn't much better. In fact, they have documentation in place for somethings they don't yet support, and it can be difficult at times to figure out whether it's your code or that the service does not exist. This applies, in particular, to recurring payments.
We used to have PayPal, but we switched to WorldPay. My personal view is that PayPal is more flexible. WorldPay has its limitations - especially if you are selling SaaS and need some real flexibility, and as things get complicated for us, we have to get creative to work with it.
But at the end of the day, WorldPay support is a million times better than PayPal. For us, they are slightly cheaper (and will become cheaper this year hopefully as we have done some volume with them). Support responds to emails pretty regularly if not a 100%. Plus you can call. They're even happy to look at server logs and tell you why or how something got lost if it got lost.
To sum up and answer your question:
On Documentation - they are almost the same as PayPal.
On service, they are MUCH, MUCH better.
On price, they will eventually get better and hold money for only 48 hours before it hits your account (this is negotiable, btw).
Depending on what you want, there are other options available. If you want recurring payments and your IMA and PSP to come from one source, WorldPay is a good alternative, especially if you are based in the UK.
If IMA and PSP being the same is not important, I suggest checking out SagePay (UK) and Authorize.net (US) - IMHO they are both quite good. SagePay has its limitations, though, especially if you want recurring billing.
Please note, the above is based on my experience of selling customized, subscription based SaaS, not an online store.