I would like to get User billing information from PayPal so that I can compare the billing information the user would have inputted in my site with those which the user has in PayPal.
I did try to access this information using the response which PayPal gives using
getECResponse.GetExpressCheckoutDetailsResponseDetails.PayerInfo.Address.Street1
but these are all null.
Is this possible? I am using Express checkout and these are digital goods so the user would not be inputting any shipping details himself.
Thanks
GetExpressCheckoutDetails returns Billing information if you had passed REQBILLINGADDRESS = 1 in SetExpressCheckout. Before doing this, you will need to get billing address enabled by contacting PayPal customer/Business Support.
A sample GETEC response :
TOKEN=EC-6CW49061US796703X
BILLINGAGREEMENTACCEPTEDSTATUS=0
CHECKOUTSTATUS=PaymentActionNotInitiated
TIMESTAMP=2014-11-06T09:29:59Z
CORRELATIONID=ac2e59af86d9c
ACK=Success
VERSION=109.0
BUILD=13630372
EMAIL=vimalbuyer#gmail.com
PAYERID=ZK5AUW8MWY9CW
PAYERSTATUS=verified
FIRSTNAME=vimalbuyer
LASTNAME=ravichandran
COUNTRYCODE=US
SHIPTONAME=J Smith
SHIPTOSTREET=1 Main St
SHIPTOCITY=San Jose
SHIPTOSTATE=CA
SHIPTOZIP=95131
SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE=US
SHIPTOCOUNTRYNAME=United States
BILLINGNAME=vimalbuyer ravichandran //Billing information starts
STREET=1 Main St
CITY=San Jose
STATE=CA
ZIP=95131
COUNTRY=US
COUNTRYNAME=United States
ADDRESSID=PayPal
ADDRESSSTATUS=Confirmed
CURRENCYCODE=USD
AMT=0.01
SHIPPINGAMT=0.00
HANDLINGAMT=0.00
TAXAMT=0.00
INSURANCEAMT=0.00
SHIPDISCAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_CURRENCYCODE=USD
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT=0.01
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPPINGAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_HANDLINGAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_TAXAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_INSURANCEAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPDISCAMT=0.00
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_INSURANCEOPTIONOFFERED=false
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTONAME=J Smith
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTREET=1 Main St
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCITY=San Jose
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTATE=CA
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOZIP=95131
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE=US
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCOUNTRYNAME=United States
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ADDRESSSTATUS=Confirmed
PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ADDRESSNORMALIZATIONSTATUS=None
PAYMENTREQUESTINFO_0_ERRORCODE=0
The GetExpressCheckoutDetails API call is only going to return the shipping information, and you are correct that if the buyer is going through the flow for digital goods there are not going to be any shipping details. There are a few different ways to get some of the information that you are wanting.
You could use the AddressVerify API. This would need to be enabled on your account by PayPal. The AddressVerify API operation confirms whether a postal address and postal code match those of the specified PayPal account holder.
You could use PayPal Identity (formerly PayPal Access), to get some of the user's information back. The basic account information that will be returned is:
Name (First, Last or Full)
Email Address
Address (Street Address, City, State, Postal Code, Country)
Phone Number
Another option, is you can contact PayPal and request a feature to be enabled to return the billing address for Express Checkout. This is feature that does need to be approved before it can be turned on as well.
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Our company has clients who have PayPal accounts. We also have their PayPal emails.
The issue is how to get client's business_name and country by providing its PayPal email?
Is it possible to make it using PayPal API?
Thanks in advance!
When a user makes a payment (Set up standard payments), you'll receive their shipping address country code as part of the v2/checkout/orders capture response.
If you need to the country of a PayPal account separately from such a payment capture's shipping address, then you might need to implement Log in with PayPal requesting the scope address, and have the user log in.
However, the capture response might also have a "payer" object with the billing account country (which can be different from the shipping country in some cases).
Whenever our service initiates an express checkout and redirects the user to PayPal page the user sees the cart on the left and the following on the right:
Note that even the address and the phone number are required while we're an online service and don't need shipping information - once PayPal confirms the payment we'll happily "ship" over the Internet, so all we really need is a PayPal payment confirmation and I guess that requires just a credit card number, expiration date and the CSC.
Yes, I know that users who have already registered with PayPal can switch to "my PayPal account" option but that doesn't help people who don't have a PayPal account and those are forced to see this page with 12 fields.
Wait, that was the form for people who have their "country" identified as the USA. Here's what people tracked to Colombia see:
Even more fields and we only need a payment confirmation.
Is it possible to make PayPal limit the set of fields on that page?
Looks like you can avoid user to enter Billing and Contact information on guest checkout only if you properly transmit REAL shipping/contact data by your own in your SetExpressCheckout call.
&METHOD=SetExpressCheckout
&RETURNURL=https://...
&CANCELURL=https://...
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT=10.00
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_PAYMENTACTION=Sale
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTREET=1 Main Street
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCITY=San Jose
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTATE=CA
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE=US
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOZIP=95131
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_EMAIL=jsmith01#example.com
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOPHONENUM=408-559-5948
If you set random data above with invalid city/state/zip PayPal will display Billing and Contact information inputs.
I need to read the email of the buyer that has completed a transaction on my eCommerce site. Paypal does send me an email of notification, but does not contain the email of the buyer (Instead, it returns just the transaction-id - which takes me to my account.)
I was looking through the PayPal for Developer API, but I can't find an example to get this level of detail. Is this even possible to retrieve, and if so, how?
Paypal ipn returns the address. When you post to PayPal, they request an address by default. (Source)
no_shipping =2 is the prompt for requiring an address.
We are using PayPal Express checkout (it's API) to let customers checkout products in our shop and add the delivery address at the same time.
We only ship to Germany and when a customer checks out, returns to our page and we get to know vie the PayPal API his address is not in Germany, we don't capture the authorized payment. Sometimes however, customers try to trick us and write AT-1234 in the zip field, to indicate they want shipping to austria. They let the country field with the "Germany" value.
Is it possible to let PayPal validate the Address during Express Checkout, such that invalid zip codes cannot be added?
You could the AddressVerify API to check the postal code and postal address. You can find more on this in the developers guide at https://www.x.com/sites/default/files/pp_nvpapi_developerguide.pdf on page 25. Another option that I have seen merchants implement is the Callback API along with Express Checkout. Information on this is found in the same guide on page 55. This allows you to update the PayPal Review page with shipping options, insurance, and tax information during the checkout. You can also generate a message that gets displayed that states you do not ship to that location. Some merchants will also tie this in with 3rd party shipping provider API, so that they can calculate real time shipping charges based on the type of shipping the buyer selected.
Hope this helps you out!
Is it possible to get the country using their email? Or validate user's country.
In our system, the user submits their email and country. We need to check whether the country is correctly specified.
Sorry for my English.
Thanks.
you have to force users to login paypal (you don't want to allow transactions by who doesn't have a paypal account)
See SetExpressCheckout SOLUTIONTYPE = Mark
after the user completes the expresscheckout, in order to confirm it, you should check if its street address is confirmed and if it is of the country you require:
GetExpressCheckoutDetails
PAYERSTATUS must be "verified"
COUNTRYCODE must be the country you require
if these two values are ok, you can confirm the payment with "DoExpressCheckoutPayment"
since you are new, if you like my answer don't forget to set it as "accepted"
An alternative solution to verify customer's PP account country with out initiaing a transaction, is to implement "Login with PayPal" with your own customer login/register managenment.
It's based on the PayPal REST identity APIs, and will be much easier for you to get & manage customer account info (with user consent).
Here's the developemnt resource for your reference: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/identity/