We're using the PayPal _cart system, but need to be able to limit shipping to UK addresses only. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks
After much chasing, I've now had an answer direct from PayPal... apparently, this isn't possible any more.
Here is a link that provides instructions from a PayPal forum moderator:
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Shipping/I-don-t-want-to-accept-International-orders/td-p/183580
As the recommendations in that link suggest, you can go to "Managing My Risk", and there is a part that allows you to deny payments from a list of countries that you can specify. You can move all countries to the deny side with that option. Be sure to leave your country in the left, "unmonitored" column, so the right column would have all countries except yours.
In your account settings you can limit to purchases from only those with a PayPal account from your same country. Another option would be to put a ridiculous shipping charge on any international orders to discourage anyone from making a purchase outside the country. These may be overkill, but it might not hurt to do them just in case.
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We have a company that designed our website and we have pay pal standard set up to take payments. It works great except for theres times where there is a double order because the notifications from paypal go to one sales person and another sales guy handles the website orders. The notifications could be from more than just the website so the sales guy doesn't think anything of it when putting in the order and the notification however doesn't update on our website if the order is filed by that sales person and vis versa. Also we run into the issue of the shipping and billing addresses being different and matching them since the website shows who its going to as the main name and the pay pal will show the billing name. Any suggestions on what we can do to make it easier on our sales team?
I would HIGHLY recommend you implement paypal-ipn and process the orders into your system that way. That notice would let you use a program to process the order data into your system and avoid issues like multiple entries, keying errors, etc.
I'm trying to figure out how to set different shipping charges dependent on different post code areas at paypal checkout?
At the moment the courier company I use for delivery from my website charge a flat rate for most of the UK, but some islands and outlying areas are charged more for postage.
These areas are identified via their postal code, however I cant seem to find how to change the postal charges in relation to the postcode entered by the customer.
At the moment someone from an Island could easily buy and pay for something without paying extra for postage as specified on my website.
Thanks for your help......
Look into Standard implementation of PayPal Express checkout (no callback). This way after the user completes the transaction on PayPal, he is taken back to your site and you can charge him whatever you need to based on the address from PayPal.
I need to be able to initiate transactions between two unknown parties via Paypal, say donor and recipient, without ever having to be exposed to the money itself - is this possible?
Basically, I want a donor to be able to click the donate button, fill in the amount and then be passed to Paypal to verify their details. My site will also supply the recipients account details to Paypal so the money goes directly to them rather than to my Paypal account. Essentially I want to enable transactions without having any legal or tax responsibilities for the money.
This needs to happen for an unlimited number of donors and recipients.
Can I do this? Paypal haven't been very helpful at all.
I am sorry to hear that you feel PayPal hasn't been helpful at all, but there are many resources at your disposal. It sounds like you have just not been asking the right person, or asking the right questions. Customer service for large corporations are difficult to traverse, but there are many people at PayPal who would have been easily able to answer your questions.
I always say this, though i'm not sure how many times on this forum: It is possible to do whatever you want with PayPal. Give me your idea, I will give you the way. Whatever you want to do can be done with the right coding.
You can use Website Payments Standard (WPS), and you would only need your merchant's email address to create buttons that go to their account. (set the business variable)
You can also use third party API calls for Website Payments Pro (WPP) and Express Checkout (EC) to process direct credit card transactions as well as PayPal payments via API for your merchants. (set the subject variable to the seller you're submitting the API on behalf of)
As for not having any legal or tax responsibilities for offering the service of payment connectivity (marketplace functionality) between sellers and merchants: IMHO you are dreaming. However, you will want to contact your local legal and tax representative to ask what liability you have. Though this should go without saying; this is StackOverflow, where you should ask questions regarding programming, not tax and legal advice.
Your tax and legal concerns are separate concerns, irrelevant to the technical question of whether it is possible to do what you want with PayPal or not.
I have a VoIP calling company for a Russian market with a Russian website where people can sign up for an account, buy credit and make calls. My service is not even popular and I have only ~100 customers. Recently, I had around 10 fraudulent users who used stolen credit/debit card or PayPal accounts to make payments. Even though my website is in Russian, I had fraudulent customers from Somalia who purchased $50 worth of credit with stolen information. Two days later after fraudulent user signed up & used up their credit, I received email from PayPal saying that those transactions were "unauthorized (transactions)." PayPal gave me 10 days to resolve this dispute and make refunds by talking to people whose financial information was compromised. After hours of arguing and debate, I had to make refund and accept the loss. But, is this how it works? What if I had 100 fraudulent customers who purchased $1000.00 worth of credit? How can I insure myself against this? Note that my service was in Russian, what if I had English website for everyone to sign up? How do you protect your service against such things?
Some of the measures I can think of are:
Customer must activate their account via verification email (Already implemented)
Accounts are by default aren't activated, I have to manually
activate them (Customers may not like this)
Calling the new customer at provided phone # to make sure if he
really signed up (I hate this one)
All of your advises and opinions are appreciated!
I worked at a similar company (no names) and the only thing we could do that actually solved the problem was to have the users sign up with a credit card, billing the minimum amount from their card while generating a code that was included in their statement (a'la "VoipMaster (4711)")
They then had to look up their credit card bill (many banks let you do it pretty much immediately online) and enter that code at our site. In other words, the user had to have access to the credit card bill to sign up, not just the credit card information.
I think that pretty much stopped fraud cold, but it's hard without marketing research to tell how many valid users didn't sign up because of it.
Its just the pitfall of accepting online payments. You do not lose $1000 worth of money when you have to refund though. Paypal should not charge you any fee's for reversing the money and therefore you have not lost anything apart from a small amount of time.
There are some things you could do to try and prevent this happening in the first place. The biggest thing would be to chose one or more vectors and then detect any changes on those vectors. A change would then need to have a secondary authorisation.
For example you could say that if you try and use a different paypal account to the last one you used, then you must go through confirmation stage.
Another one could be that if you purchase more than a certain limit then you go through the confirmation stage.
If your IP address changes you go through the confirmation stage (not so good, but its an idea nonetheless).
The confirmation process/stage could be anything you deem suitable to ensure to the best of your ability that they are legitimate. For example you may require email confirmation from them or require them to wait 24 hours for the credit to be given (provide a phone number they can call you on to fast track maybe).
Theres no sure fire way, but the harder you make it the less it will happen. Theres hundreds of things you could do based on the simple theory i posted above. Nevermind more complex things you could possible use. At $50 a time i would assume they are using your site as a test site to ensure the details all work ok, before going on to using them for larger payments elsewhere or transferring money to there own accounts. So if you make it harder for them to do that,, they will find somewhere else to test them.
Is paypal a suitable system for handling event ticket payments. All I want to do is create a page with event details, a list of hOw many tickets are left and a secure payment handling. Systems like eventwax seem to charge for use of there system and then paypal charges you too. I just dont get why people are paying twice. Also does anyone have any other recommendations for similar sites like eventwax
Google Checkout lets you do something that will work for you. Basically you create a Google Docs spreadsheet that follows a special format and contains the items that you sell and the quantities remaining. Then, you can make an HTML button that you can embed in your page. When a user clicks the button, it processes the selling of a specific item from that spreadsheet. Google handles everything else automatically - it subtracts one from the quantity field in the spreadsheet, processes the payment and sends you an email with the purchase and shipping details. Little to no programming required.
Of course, this can't work with PayPal.
First off, paypal comes in many different flavors. From the simple they host the order form and process payments way on up to all you do is pass them the credit card info and charge amount and they process it.
With that in mind I don't believe they support selling a limited quantity of items. This is something you would have to provide with your site.
Which leaves us with: are you asking a "how do I code this" type of question or something more general. If the former then please provide language and what you have so far. If the latter, then you might try at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com
Now regarding eventwax charging for usage, that is a perfectly legit thing to do. They are providing a service which allows people to sell a limited number of things, ensure that those things aren't over sold (which can be difficult depending on your db transactional experience), and handle payment processing.
All said and done there are really several companies which will get a piece of the action so to speak. Paypal is one, the credit card companies are another. If you are using paypal's payflow pro gateway then there is at least two other companies involved: your bank and the transaction processor themselves.
Which leads us to why people pay companies like event wax. Quite frankly, it's easy they don't have to screw around with programming something, and it works right now. There's a lot that can be said about doing things this way. Usually you just include all of this into the cost of doing business.