i am integrating paypal recuring payment where Ist month payment is free. and after it is chargebal. my probleam is after making payment profile of user how i find if this month payment is done or not of this particular profile.
You can log into your account and view the profile, it will show you the payment history for that profile. If you are using IPN, you could set up a backend system for recording this information and viewing it. Every time a payment is completed, you will get an IPN, which you would just have your system write it to the database.
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On our website we have option to pay using PayPal. At the time of signup our sytem creates recurring profile in users PayPal account and then till the account continue we receive recurring Payments.
On every successful payment PayPal send us the notifications with transaction details and we updates our system.
Sometimes our system miss the IPN notifications due to outage and as a result our system goes out of sync and does not updates the payments.
I would like to know do we have any PayPal API which we can call to get the transaction details of missing IPN notifications?
How to handle these transactions which are not updated in our system and IPN we ave missed?
I'm creating a website using paypal recurring payments. Each month the payment happens automatically, but I need to know when this happens in order to update the user profile in my application, so I know until when the subscription is valid.
Using paypal webhooks, which events do I need to subscribe to in order to know when the payment actually happens (or fails) each month?
My PayPal recurring payment profiles have an initial payment.
My backend checks for canceled payment profiles. If the profile is canceled the subscription on my website ends at the canceled profile's expiration date (this is so people who pay for a subscription and cancel afterwards keep their website subscription until the subscription end date).
When the user doesn't have any balance or payment method bound to their PayPal, they can still create the payment profile. PayPal allows users to click 'Agree & Pay Now' and notifies my backend even though the initial payment isn't made (because the user has no paypal balance or valid payment method).
In my payment history I can see the profile has been created and canceled instantly without a payment made.
Is there a way to simply not accept payments if the initial payment hasn't gone through?
To capture the initial payment the best way is to call the doexpresscheckout API for the initial amount and then create recurring profile using the same token . In this way , if the doexpress checkout call is successful this means you receive your initial payment and their funding source also is good . Once this step is successful you can procees to create recurring profile .
I need to know if the following scenario can be developed.
I have a website where the mode of payment is pay-by-usage. So when the customer exceeds a particular amount, I need to charge his PayPal account automatically. Is this possible in the PayPal API?
You can use PayPal Adaptive payment and there is an option to charge user account automatically. It is called PayPal Pre Approval payment.
In the first phase the user has to authorize your app to perform payment onbehalf of user. During this authorization step, you will get and authorize pre approval key. Later you could automatically charge user PayPal account using this key.
We are using Paypal recurring billing service (using Express Checkout) at our website for monthly subscription.
Since we have an Australian account so we are not able use the DPRP (Direct Payment Recurring Payment) service offered by Paypal because it seems, DPRP service is limited
to only few countries (US, UK and Canada).
In Express checkout payment details are received at Paypal Website. So we do not have any information, whether the payment failed, user pressed the Back button in browser or He/She intentionally clicked the cancel payment.
After speaking to Paypal support team we get know that there could be multiple possible reason for Payment failure, and seller has to contact Paypal by themself. So we can
not provide any troubleshooting for that at our website.
So we want to know, Is there any possible solution to avoid this or atleast can we diffrentiate between the user for whom payment failed and who intentionally moved to
our website back without doing payment because this way we are not only unable to followup with them but also loosing a part of the customer base, interested in our service.
Any help in this is Appreciated.
Thanks
You should implement the Pay Pal IPN (Instant Payment Notification).
You configure the IPN url address on your PayPal merchant account settings. This page is simple HTML page with server-side programming that is listening for requests coming from PayPal.
There's no need to do something extra in the checkout process for making IPN work. Once you set this up, it will automatically work.
Every time something happens with a transaction in your merchant account, e.g. transaction completed/failed/canceled, PayPal will send an HTTP Post to your IPN listener URL.
Here you can get all the relevant information about the transaction, like the payer ID, the payment status. With this information you can decide what to do with your customer's order.