I'm trying to use recurring billing for website payments pro using the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API call.
I'm testing my code in the sandbox, but I get the error "DPRP is disabled for this merchant". I can't seem to find where in the account to enable recurring payments.
Any ideas?
Thanks :)
This is because of the different types of accounts. Recurring Payments (NOT recurring billing. these are 2 different products) was offered with older PayPal accounts. With the new accounts, you should be using the Payflow gateway to perform Recurring Billing transactions.
To do this, first you need to make a Payflow test account. This can be done by doing Part 1, 2 and 3 from this article:
https://ppmts.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/929
After you have a test Payflow account, you can follow this recurring billing guide here to set up recurring billing:
https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/GB/en_GB/files/developer/PP_PayflowPro_RecurringBilling_Guide.pdf
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I am trying to setup recurring payments in our SandBox.
I have followed the instructions here:
How to enable recurring payments for sandbox account?
I have a working Python Django code, have setup billing plans and foward the user to a billing agreement with an Activated plan but it errors on the PayPal page, that this is currently not possible.
So I checked the above link and understand I need to enable recurring payments in my facilitator sandbox account.
Once I go to the Recurring payments dashboard-> Sign up for Enhanced Recurring Payments
I only end up with a message saying: Sorry, this feature is not available at this time.
How am I supposed to test this now ? This Sandbox account is an Account type: Business and verified.
Using the PayPal Express Checkout API, is it possible to set up recurring billing but have "PayPal account optional" feature enabled?
I have it enabled in the account (UK, Business with Express Checkout + Recurring billing enabled) and I'm also setting 'SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole' in the API call SetExpressCheckout which according to the docs sets the call to "Paypal Account Optional". However I still get the "Create a PayPal account - pay by debit card option".
Is there any way to have recurring billing without requiring a PayPal account?
Unfortunately, when working with recurring payments users will need a PayPal account to sign up through Express Checkout.
You would need to sign up for Payments Pro + Recurring Billing to get access to process credit cards directly and setup profiles that way. This way you could eliminate the redirect to PayPal altogether when people choose to pay with a credit card.
We want to offer a online service that uses a credit system.
Initially we want to offer x amount of credits as a free trial. To activate this trial the user agrees to a subscription via PayPal (but does not pay anything at that time)
1) Is it possible to set up using Preapproval API, if not is there a better suited API
2) Can it be setup through PayPal so that the user does not need an existing PayPal account or to create a new one. If there is a way to do this other than preapproval API please let me know as well.
3) We want the billing to be automatic when the user credits run out. Therefore there is no set time, e.g 1 month, when each user is charged. Is this possible?
Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks
You have a few different options:
Reference Transactions (no cost requires approval from PayPal)
Enhanced Recurring Billing/Automatic Payments (cannot be used with a Pro or Advanced Accounts) Has a cost associated with it ($19.99 monthly)
Recurring Billing with PayPal Payments Pro Payflow or PayPal Payments Advanced. Has a cost associated with it ($10.00 monthly in addition to the cost of the Payflow/Advanced account)
Here are the details from the three different options:
Reference Transactions, which does require that you call into PayPal Customer Support and that your account is approved for this feature.
Reference transactions does allow for guest checkout billing.
From the PayPal Documentation, Recurring payments using reference transactions enable you to handle payments for varying amounts of money on a varying schedule.
Reference Transaction Guide
Enhanced Recurring Billing/Automatic Billing
If you do not plan to uses PayPal Payments Pro or Advanced at any time you can get setup with Enhanced Recurring Billing/ Automatic Billing
Automatic Billing Guide
From the PayPal Documentation:
You can create Automatic Billing buttons for your website by using a tool on the PayPal website. If you're a power user, you can write the HTML code for PayPal hosted Automatic Billing buttons yourself.
With Automatic Billing buttons, buyers agree to pay you automatically when you bill them, up to a limit that they choose. You set the parameters for the limits they choose. Automatic billing allows Guest Checkout, so you can bill a credit card.
PayPal Payments Pro Payflow/Advanced
For PayPal Payments Pro Payflow/Advanced you can setup Recurring Billing as well. Payflow Pro allows you to process credit cards directly. Here is the information on Recurring Billing through Payflow:
Payflow Recurring Billing
How to turn on Enhanced Recurring Payments for sandbox business account? I tried How to enable recurring payments for sandbox account?, but i don't have Financial Information column in my profile section. How to test Enhanced Recurring Payments Standard on the new Paypal Sandbox? also doesn't help - have an Message 3005 error.
I'm not sure this is the solution but please do check out this link, guess itss related to sandbox errors http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/227988-paypal-ipn-sandbox-error-3005/
And would suggest you to look for better recurring systems than Paypal.
Currently I am working with several non-profits (who receive recurring donations normally monthly) to migrate away from their current gateways to Paypal.
Is there any way to import their currently donor's payment information into Paypal?
If not which would you recommend to help migrate their donors over?
1) Setup a special section of their website and as donor's to re-subscribe?
or
2) Send out Invoices for their current recurring amount (if its possible to email a subscription)?
thanks,
This depends on what type of system you are currently using, and specifically what type of service you are going to use from PayPal. Are you going to be using PayPal's Recurring Payments, Enhanced Recurring Payments, Subscriptions or Payflow's Recurring Billing? If you have all of the contributor's information, such as credit card info, name, address and etc and you are going to be using PayPal's Recurring Payments or Payflow's Recurring Billing you could use the API's to create the profiles on your PayPal or Payflow account without having to have the contributor do anything on their end. If you are going to be using PayPal's Enhanced Recurring Payments or Subscriptions, then you would need the buyer to re sign up for a recurring donation. You can could use either option that you mentioned above. You would be able to do either through PayPal.