I've got an enhancement from client and big trouble with answer if it is possible or not to do.
What I have is a web which provides seo service.
Client types phrase than chooses service option etc.
There are severals service options like:
single payment - service will be active per only 90 days
membership - client declare to pay a sum of money every 90days (recurring payment)
membership + extra support - same as membership but + extra sum of money
1) Suppose that client choosed first option and after 90 days decided to continue service.
Is it possible to set reccuring payment via paypal without need of client's interference* (we do not store any credit cards numbers in database).
2) Suppose that client choosed second option and after about 10 days decided to get extra support.
Is it possible to change sum of money which we are charging from client every 90 days, without his interference*.
* client don't have to fill up payment form (paypal side) once again.
I would be very grateful if anyone can help me with this issue. If it is possible which paypal accout do I have to get.
Thanks
Maciek
Thanks for reply. However I still don't get it.
Do you know how can I (as merchant) from my website/shop admin panel (not paypal profile site) cancel subscriber's subscription ?
In PDF "Recurring Payments API Overview" I have read that
"N O T E : There is currently no API access to allow merchants to modify or cancel a profile."
and in limitation:
"You cannot modify or cancel a recurring payment profile using the Recurring Payments API".
What can I do with this issue? Maybe there is another Paypal API that lets me to do what I want.
By the way reading PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide I found that without subscriber's log in it is not possible to upgrade his account. Is it possible to upgrade ( charge more money monthly) without his log in?
Thanks
Maciek
Yes, PayPal has a "subscription" mode to handle this sort of thing, including the ability to modify a subscription. See https://www.paypal.com/pdn-recurring.
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I need to create a subscriptions system in my app, where users can subscribe to a certain package and they must be billed monthly.
Moreover, I need to charge their credit card automatically, and without requiring them to have a PayPal account.
I read about https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchant/erp_overview, but is seems it's not available anymore as I click on sign up and it gives me an error ("Sorry, this feature is not available at this time.").
Then I've read about PayPal Standard Payments, which have a subscription method (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/subscribe_buttons/)
From what I can read there is that this is what is suitable for my use case, and it says that I need to enable the above mentioned service, which it doesn't work.
Can someone point me in the right direction on what service should I use from PayPal in order to implement recurring payments (basically my users will subscribe themselves to a service on my website, and I need to charge them monthly).
Thank you.
If you're wanting to handle credit cards directly I would highly recommend going with Payments Pro w/ Recurring Payments APIs.
You'll have to pay a monthly fee to get it all activated, and it's a little bit more expensive than what you were looking at, but it will give you much greater flexibility building your application(s) into various experiences for your buyers.
I am trying to create a subscription feature on my site. The users can subscribe to a number of projects (from 1 to 30). The price of a projet: 10$.
For subscribing I use a the Subscription button. I validate the payment using the IPN from paypal. All ok.
Now I want to give to users the possibility to change the number of projects they are subscribed for. But the paypal doesn't allow an increasing of payment more than 20%.
How can I change the user's subscription ? Should I remove his profile (not sure if I understant what it is) and create a new one ?
As you saw in the documentation, PayPal Subscriptions product doesn't seem like a good match for your requirements. You could have someone re-subscribe with new (higher) premium, but you probably would be better off with a product that allowed you to simply change the recurring amount billed.
PayPal has several other products that allow you to do that; hopefully one will meet your needs. In particular look at Recurring Payments & Reference Transactions (within PayPal's classic product suite) or Future Payments (within PayPal's RESTful API suite).
We want to offer payments using paypal within our web-app concept. A few days ago i took my first ride using uber in Germany. They provide to add paypal as payment method and after every ride i just can pay using paypal without entering my credentials again.
How to implement a payment process like this?
We want our users to add paypal as payment method and then - X days aftersignup (eg. when we found the right product for him) we want to start the subscription.
The thing is that these X days varies from user to user so we cant use a billing agreement with a fixed start date and due to the fact its a subscription model we cant use just a single payment authorization.
I found the solution: Paypal calls this feature "Adaptive Payments". You can read it here: Adaptive Payments API Reference
I am building an application that has two types of users: owners and buyers.
When a user signs up for a payment subscription to the services offered on the website, the system checks to which owner those selected services belong to and should then make that subscription payment go to that owner. So basically, users have no idea that payments go to multiple people. As far as they are concerned, they are just selecting certain services on our website and signing up for a monthly recurring subscription payment. The system then decides where that subscription money should go.
So, how can I do this? What possible systems can I use? I have looked into two: PayPal and Stripe. I can see how I might be able to use them for this if I get really creative, however I just wanted to ask you guys to see if any one has experience in doing something like this and what is a good way to do this.
Thank you.
Here're description about PayPal Adaptive Payment, you need setup preapproval and Chained Payment .
In this scenario, you act as Primary Receiver. You can setup the payment that Primary Receiver keep certain percentage amount ($10 in in 2nd picture), or distribute all payment to multiple receivers (service providers). It's up to your business logic.
I developed a Web Application that accepts payments via the ExpressCheckout API, for users to become a members.
Everything works fine.
I now want to extend my Web Application Services and offer my users with the possibility to buy items which are sold by third parties (my members).
The principle I would like to implement is quite simple: for each order, let the user pay for the item they choose and then transfer a part of the amount I received to the item provider, and keep some money for me. I would like to automate this process so that once I received the payment notification, I compute the amount of money to transfer to the item provider who might or not have a Paypal account (in other words, this means that I could maybe need to transfer the money to a bank account, using the IBAN/SWIFT data) and then proceed with the money transfer.
I tried to find a solution reading your documentation and came across the "chained payment" but the latter does not seem to be used within the ExpressCheckout workflow.
Also, since my implementation of the ExpressCheckout flow works, I would not like to have to find a totally different solution but rather extend it... if possible.
Could you please tell me which is the best solution for me?
In advance, many thanks for your help.
You could do 1 of 2 things. You could use Express Checkout with parallel payments. This means you could split the transaction up between different accounts at the time of purchase. The other option would be to just receive all of the funds into your account, and then when you are wanting to send money to the other accounts you could either use the Adaptive Payments (Pay) API or the MassPayments API to send money to the other accounts. Keep in mind you would have to send it to their PayPal accounts, you would not be able to send it directly to a bank account with either one of these API's.
I had the same issue and I got an answer from PayPal that it is not allowed to use Express Checkout to transfer money to your PayPal account and - at a later point in time - transfer the amount minus your service fee (which stays on your PayPal account) via Adapative Payments API to the seller's PayPal account. PayPal suggested to use Chained Payments API instead. All works fine in the sandbox, but once you need a Live APP ID from PayPal they will review your business case and deny it. At least that what happened to me.
I know that is old question, but anyway, I tried to find solution and was enable to perform the simillar thing like described in question. So, then I asked paypal about this, and they gave me advice to use SellerDetailsType Fields that 's called PayPalAccountID, description for this field is Unique identifier for the merchant. For parallel payments, this field is required and must contain the Payer Id or the email address of the merchant. It wasn't clear for me to use this field for solving my problem. Here is link https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/merchant/SetExpressCheckout_API_Operation_SOAP/ I described field for soap request, for NVP it's called PAYMENTREQUEST_n_SELLERPAYPALACCOUNTID, but the idea is the same. I hope it will help someone.