Capture Card as I understand it allows a seller to securely accept an online order with credit card name, number and code via a shopping cart. We can subsequently ship the order, add the freight to the invoice and submit the total amount to the credit card for payment. After the payment has been posted the credit card information is wiped from the order.
I was led to believe that I could do this with a PayPal Payments Pro account, so I created one and sent a test invoice through with my own credit card. The amount of the invoice with tax was immediately posted to my PayPal account without the opportunity to add freight.
Can anyone on this forum provide a solution or workaround?
Thanks!!
Are you processing this initially as a sale or an authorization. If you are wanting to use the DoDirectPayment API with Website Payments Pro, you could process a 1.00 authorization to validate the card. Then perform all of the calculations that you are needing to, and then process the payment using the DoReferenceTransaction API call where you send across the full amount you want to charge to the buyers card. You only have to reference the transaction id for the last successful 1.00 auth you did, and PayPal will use the same credit card information. Otherwise you could also process the DoDirectPayment API call with the full amount at the time of checkout, and just use the DoReferenceTransactions API call to charge any additional charges to where not initially charged such as tax and shipping.
Another option would be to use Express Checkout, and process the transaction as an order. This will allow you to make more then one authorization/capture against the order. You can also set a max amount in the Express Checkout API calls.
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Is there a way to integrate /vault/credit-card call with PayPal payment buttons? I do not want to work with client credit card information but i can't find a way to redirect the client to paypal only to store his credit card information and for me to get his id on paypal to charge him than needed
You could use the PayPal/Payflow hosted checkout pages and process a 1.00 authorization. Then store the transaction id on your system. Then when you want to charge the buyer, you would just use the reference transaction API call to charge them. You only need to pass over the amount you want to charge along with the previous successful transaction id, and PayPal will use the same credit card information that was used in the last transaction.
I'm mulling over using Paypal express as an option for a new ecommerce site. I've searched for an answer to this question but can't seem to find an answer. My question has to do with exactly how you would checkout using Paypal on Etsy, for example. Let's say the total sale price is $20, when the buyer is being redirected back to Etsy after logging on to Paypal so their information can be collected, at what point would Etsy collect their commission? Would Etsy just collect their commission and the remaining payment goes directly to the seller, without Etsy touching the seller's portion? For my site the $20 (for example), needs to go directly to the seller while at the same time my company collects our commission without any part of the sellers portion of the sale being in my Paypal Express account for any amount of time.
It depends on how they are processing payments. They could be using Express Checkout with Parallel payments. Basically when the DoExpressCheckoutPayment API call is executed the transaction would be split up into the different accounts.
My website allows people to "sign up" for day trips. They must then pay a price based on their selection. Does paypal allow you to send your own payment values (as calculated by the amount of daytrips and the price of each one)?
Is there a way to program this value?
Cheers,
Dan
Take a look # the Direct Payment API. I think it supports all your needs
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-outside
Also, you can test your application in the PayPal Sandbox
https://developer.paypal.com/
How it works
For each payment, Direct Payment API
takes the billing address, transaction
amount, credit card information, and
item information as inputs. Within
seconds, the API returns a
confirmation that the transaction has
been processed.
If I have a Visa card number saved in my database, is there a way I can charge that Visa automatically through the PayPal API without the user having to enter anything? We want to keep this site as easy and hassle-free to use as possible. It would be a variable amount, based on how they use the site.
(Don't worry, proper disclaimers will be in place, and the user will be notified)
What about these "recurring payments"? That way I don't have to store the CC info on my website, but do they allow variable amounts that I could periodically send to PayPal?
Yes, you can.
Look at Direct Payments:
1 On your website, the customer
chooses to pay with a credit card and
enters the credit card number and
other details.
2 The customer reviews the order.
3 When your customer clicks “Pay” to
place the order, you call a PayPal API
to request payment, and the payment
transaction is initiated. Note: The
customer does not see this step.
PayPal does not send your customer a
recipt for the payment.
4 You transfer your customer to your
order confirmation page.
The payment is performed without redirecting the customer to PP site, so it's up to you to request CC data from the customer and submit them to PP API.
I have stuck into the problem of related to transfer amount back to credit card from paypal when user cancel his/her transaction. I don't want to use paypal refund feature in our application. My client requires to send back amount at the same time when user cancel his/her transaction.
Can anyone guide me to complete this feature or is there any API to solve such type of feature.
Thanks in advance.
Dewan
I don't want to use paypal refund feature in our application. My
client requires to send back amount at the same time when user cancel
his/her transaction.
How PayPal Refunds
You don't want to use PayPal's refund feature, but you want to send money back to the buyer? This is called a refund. I am sure you are mistaking how PayPal refunds money. If the user pays with a credit card, they are refunded to their credit card. If they pay with a bank account or PayPal account, they are refunded to their PayPal account.
API calls that refund buyers
DoNonReferencedCredit would refund to a credit card you specify, everytime, and you do not need a transaction ID.
In a scenario where the buyer no longer has a card that was
associated with a transaction, or the time allotted for a refund in
PayPal has passed, you would want to use the DoNonReferencedCredit
API.
RefundTransaction would refund the funding source as described in the "How PayPal Refunds" paragraph.
If your main concern is to issue a refund, via API, you have a transaction ID (you say a payment has been completed so you should have a transaction ID), AND PayPal's refund time has not passed, you should use the RefundTransaction API.
You might be able to use something like DoNonReferencedCredit from the paypal API - but I'm not 100% sure on that.