My client wishes to keep customers within their site when making PayPal payments. I understand they need to upgrade to a PayPal Pro (or Advanced) account to achieve this. However, before I advise them to do this I want to be sure it won't break their existing website between now and when the new code is implemented. Does anyone know if it is "safe" to upgrade from Standard to Pro without breaking the current implementation or should I advise they create a new account for the Pro integration.
Thanks in advance.
There would not be any issues when upgrading from Website Payments Standard to PayPal Pro/Advanced. You can still use standard and Express Checkout with PayPal Pro/Advanced.
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Is it possible to use Paypal express checkout without signing in even if the user has a Paypal account present?
We have noticed that some folks forget their credentials and don't want to login to Paypal, thus causing us to lose their donation. The Account optional setting seems to still require users, who have a Paypal account linked to the provided email, to sign in even if they would like to pay from the checkout page.
Is there a way to avoid this?
Thanks!
Paypal provide optional guest checkout. https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/express-checkout#overview
Guest Checkout would allow people to use a credit card without signing in or creating an account, but the checkout would still take place in PayPal hosted pages.
If you'd like to process credit cards directly on your site you could use Payments Pro, the REST API, or Braintree. The difference is really just the technical details in integrating it, so your developer could choose which method would work best for your setup, and then you could create that account and integrate it accordingly.
If you're already using and are familiar with PayPal in general I would recommend going with Payments Pro. It typically costs $30/mo, but if you contact me directly I can help you to get that fee waived.
You would also need to make sure your site has an SSL installed and can run from https:// correctly.
Once those things are in place it's just a matter of integrating Payments Pro into your current setup, which depending on what that is, there are a number of different ways that could be done. I would need more detail to be able to help you more specifically with integration.
I am working for a company that is using Paypal pro. There are so many Paypal account types, API's, and SDK's that I am starting to get confused with it all. At developer.paypal.com, there is documentation for many different things. What API and/or documentation do I use to start integrating paypal into my website? What is the difference between all these different ones?
Any advice or help would be great, as I am stuck.
Thanks for your time!
Personally, I would avoid the REST API and stick with the Classic API for now. The REST API is very new and doesn't do (much) more than the Classic APIs do. In fact, the Classic API is much more mature has a lot more functionality, which is one of the reasons I still prefer and recommend it.
With PayPal Pro you will use one of two APIs depending on which version you have.
Website Payments Pro 3.0 - This uses the DoDirectPayment API
Payments Pro 2.0 - This uses the PayFlow API.
Payments Pro 2.0 is actually the newer version. If you're interested in more detail on that you can take a look at my article on the History of PayPal Payments Pro.
So those would be for direct credit card processing through your site / application from your own custom checkout page. To add PayPal payments to that, you would use Express Checkout APIs. Specifically,
SetExpressCheckout
GetExpressCheckoutDetails
DoExpressCheckoutPayment
If you are working with PHP this PayPal PHP SDK will make all of these calls very simple for you.
I am working on magento site. i have an issue on payapal ( mobile )responsive regarding. when i click on direct paypal checkout after the redirection desktop view is fine but mobile view is not fine . I do'nt know whats wrong. if you have any solution please message me. please check the snapshorts.
Thank you
Snapshorts
As stated on magento official website:
Improved Payment and Financing Options These new Magento product
releases also offer better payment and financing options that can help
merchants improve conversion and sales. The Bill Me Later service
offers customers access to on-the-spot financing, so they can buy now
and pay later, with no additional cost to the merchant. Ready-made
banner ads and a prominent Bill Me Later button at checkout are
included to help promote the new service. Forrester Consulting
estimates that merchants offering Bill Me Later see an 18 percent*
boost in sales. Merchants also have an option to offer customers a
more streamlined PayPal Express Checkout experience which
automatically tries alternative payment options when a customer’s
credit card is rejected to help drive more sales.
Which Magento version do you use?
Starting with Magento 1.9.1.0 there is PayPal Express Checkout.
I recommend you to update Magento to latest version and configure PayPal Express Checkout.
i'm working with windows store application and i'm using PayPal Windows8 checkout SDK its working fine for normal payments but i need to make a recurring payment.Let me know PayPal Windows8 checkout SDK is supported for recurring payment?.
https://github.com/paypal/Windows8SDK
It doesn't look like the PayPal Windows 8 SDK supports recurring payments right now. If you go down into the API Reference sheet for C# you'll see there is no mention of a property or event allowing an item to reoccur.
Further, the SDK promotes the Checkout.BuyNow API. BuyNow insinuates it's simply to be bought on the spot, which goes hand in hand with the entire SDK being called PayPal Checkout.
Version 1.0.0 went live yesterday and they seem to have kept semi regular updates in developing for it. I can anticipate reoccuring payments being a heavily requested feature so I'd either check in on it from time to time or find another SDK/API that can help you.
Have fun!
I am using paypal standard in my website and we are using recurring payment method for that,and i done it successfully. but now i wanting to know all the details of that recurring payment profile. i had googling for that and i got "GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails" API for get profile details.but as i know its working with PAYPAL PRO only.
Is anybody having solution the same for PAYPAL STANDARD..? i m stuck on that task from many days.please help me out.
Thanks.
GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails works for both Express Checkout as well as Website Payments Pro recurring payment profiles.
If you use Standard, you may or may not be able to use this API. Give it a shot I'd say!