I integrate PayPal Express Checkout in a Java web project and I want to know if before a transaction processing it need to be checked if the buyer has sufficient means (funds) in the account or PayPal does this automatically? If so, where can I set the redirect link in case the account balance is less than the amount to be paid?
Cause for example I have 2 sandbox accounts, one Personal (where I have 100$) and another Business, I tried to make a transaction of about 200$ and all went fine, the money were transferred, and I'm afraid because of that.
What? No...think about what you just asked, if a merchant had access to buyers balance that is a huge privacy issue. Paypal will deal with balance issues, eg a back up source must be selected.
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Is this the real behavior of Paypal. I am using the Paypal REST api (payment api's), and it is working fine and customers can use it. The only problem is when a new customer (one that has not visited paypal.com once) tries to buy our product, paypal seems to require him to create an account.
Here's the procedure:
First time to visit paypal.com (meaning no cookies / not cached or anything).
Customer Buy Product (Our website creates the payment transaction then redirects him to paypal.com)
Customer click Pay with my credit or debit card (He does not want to create a paypal account).
The country set is Philippines (I think paypal detects this so it is initially set to where I am) and I can proceed paying with my credit card
I tried changing the country to somewhere else
Here's comes the problem, on some countries, I am shown a different form, a form for creating a new account in Paypal.
Hope you understand what I am saying. Thanks.
It’s important to remember that guest checkout is not guaranteed for every transaction. PayPal runs a risk check to determine eligibility for guest checkout. There will be times when guest checkout is not available. This is intended. Here are a few things to make sure guest checkout is offered as often as possible.
-Verified PayPal account
-Confirmed email address
-Guest Checkout enabled - To see this, log in, go to Profile and click 'My selling preferences', click on Update next to Website preferences - scroll down the screen and find "PayPal Account Optional" section - you can enable/disable PayPal Account optional here.
-With Express Checkout their cart must pass “SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole”
Unfortunately, there are few parameters which are still incompatible with REST API including SOLUTIONTYPE which works only in Classic API.
If all of these are met and it’s not available then our system has decided to disable the guest checkout option for risk reasons. This is not a permanent decision and it will be available in the future.
My problem is very similar to this
How i can credit my customer from their online balance deposited by them on our website.
We are using Braintree API. It has marketplace services too. But escrow is not what i'm looking for. I want to know whether Braintree API/ PayPal ACH API is capable of crediting our customer.
How about Balanced API. Can this solve my problem?
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
To transfer funds to user local bank account, you can use Braintree's Detached Credit Feature.
But, the biggest problem is that in order to use this feature you must request send a request to have this capability enabled via an email to Braintree; at this point they will enable it temporarily. Once the transaction is completed, they disable it within 24 hours, at most.
I am trying to receive payment entirely on my website.
However, my biggest concern is that for tax reasons, I cannot receive that entire payment myself. In fact, what I will be doing is selling tours for other companies and I need my cut to come to my account and the balance to go to the tour company's account.
Can you help me with how I can do the entire transaction on my website (without being redirected to PayPal's account) and still disburse that amount automatically to the right accounts?
PS: I am familiar with Adaptive payments but it keeps requiring "Express Checkout" which requires you to be redirected to the PayPal site at some point, so that is not a good solution.
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 am using PayPal PreApproved payments for my crowd funding website, where project backers are only charged if the project is successfully backed.
I am worried that high rate of payments will fail when the PayPal API tries to collect the funds when a project is successful:
a backer might not have any funds in their PayPal account
a backer might close their account once the project is successful (to intentionally stop payment)
a backer might remove/cancel their preapproved payment
etc...
There are a number of ways that the payment could fail which would mean that the project owner would not get their funds.
Can anyone suggest a way of tightening or securing payments. Please note, that PayPal will only allow you to use PreApproved payments for crowdfunding. Please also note that project owners need to be able to receive the funds from my site. Sometimes, these funds can be as small as $10 or up to $10,000 so we need to use PayPal to pay them as there is not other method of getting the funds to the project owner
I've implemented Paypal Adaptive payments and used them for payments at http://www.wethetrees.com and we had the exact problems you are describing. The capture rate is almost random, we were down to 35% with one campaign and had to manually send all backers invoices.
When capturing we had backers with closed/unauthorized accounts, insufficient funds, unavailable payment methods etc. We switched to just doing direct capture for a while, which is great since we get 100% of all pledges, but Paypal closed our account without notice when one of our campaigns mentioned the word "Cuba".
The solution in the end was to scrap Paypal so now we're using Wepay and Dwolla, and we're considering Bitpay (Bitcoin) as well. Seems to like Paypal wants to kill crowdfunding or doesn't understand it. Anything less than a 90% capture rate is totally unacceptable and will cause projects to fail.
Preapproval isn't the only thing they'll allow you to use. That's just one part of the Adaptive Payments API, but you could go with a delayed chained payment, too.
This way your account can be treated sort of like an Escrow. You can use the Pay API to create payments in the system that are split between receivers accordingly. Only the primary receiver would get paid at first, though, and then you can call ExecutePayment to submit the secondary payments from the primary account within 90 days.
This way the primary account holds all of the funds so they're available to pay out when the goal is reached. If the goal is not reached the payments could be refunded.