I'm really having trouble finding out how to set this up. Their documentation is horrendous at best. I called Paypal and told them what I need:
have my own custom shopping cart
client doesn't want to pay monthly fee
I was told that I could use Website Payments Standard to send my cart contents and the user can choose to sign in/pay or simply pay by CC without an account. Every link on their documentation sends me to the silly HTML button creator. I don't need hand-holding through the coding, I just need to know where I can find the proper documentation. I don't want Paypal buttons that send customers to a paypal cart page every time they add something.
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_cart_upload
This is what I was looking for. It only took 3+ hours to find, so congrats to you Paypal. You've stolen my money in the past, now you've stolen my time. Hopefully this helps someone else who was looking for the same thing.
Thanks! I'm looking for a way to implement paypal in my java (spring) server so my clients (or I) can easily setup their webshops. I totally agree that implementing PayPal in a web application should be simple and in reality is a total mess.
So thanks a lot for posting this here, I guess you also saved me some additional time!
Best wishes,
Jochen
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As a developer, I want to know what are the advantages of using PayPal API?
I know there are a ton of APIs out there to use, but if I will use the PayPal API specifically, what are the benefits of it?
Typically people use the PayPal API if they have a business that wants to process payments via PayPal. It's not a developer question.
Your question becomes, really, what are the advantages of processing payments with PayPal? And there may be interesting answers to that question but this isn't the place.
Edit:
Ok I did think of something that can be added from a developer and solutioning perspective
Look at the demo code here
See how easy that is. Now actually click one of the buttons. See how the window emerges, and how quick and natural the payment experience is for the user--with the originating website staying loaded in the background.
Think also about the security of this payment experience. All the buyer's financial instruments are saved and stored at PayPal; nothing is shared with the (potentially new/unfamiliar) ecommerce site they are paying, whereas PayPal is a relatively trusted name by many millions of buyers.
So, TL;DR : it's very easy, it's very quick (no retyping things) and secure, and people trust it enough to actually send you money and hope you will deliver on the new product/service you are offering
We have our own custom products that we sell. We are entering into a partnership where someone will be using their website to send customers to us. Their customers will pay with our Paypal button on their website, once we receive payment we ship out the product and pay a portion of the profits to them. On paper this sounds good but we have no idea how to execute it. How will we know the sale came from their website? How do we set this up without them needing access to our Paypal account?
Any ideas on where to start? Thank you, it's much appreciated!
Please, hire a developer to set this up for you. As it is, you're basically asking people to complete a project for you completely for free - that isn't what this site is about.
I'm really struggling with trying to figure out how to make PayPal do what I want, which is frustrating because it's so simple!
What I need is pretty much just a field to enter an amount, then a checkout process that will process the payment, allowing the user to pay without creating a PayPal account if so desired. That's it, nothing fancy.
I can create a Buy Now button with the Price field left empty. This allows the user to enter an amount, but the resulting interface on PayPal's site is butt-ugly and confusing. Worse, it doesn't allow for non-PayPal payments... the only options are "Pay with my PayPal account" and "Create a PayPal account."
The Donation button does exactly what I want, but I can't use it because it looks like I may be taking in more than the yearly limit on donations, and I'm not actually a non-profit.
Is there a way to get this to work the way I want on PayPal, or do I need to write code to integrate with my site? If the latter, is there a simple, straightforward guide to how this sort of thing is done for someone with no experience at all with regard to setting up secure sites? PayPal's guides all seem to leave a lot unsaid, assuming I'm already an expert at this level of site design.
Thanks in advance!
There is usually (in smaller print) an option on the PayPal landing page to pay by credit card without a PayPal account. Is a dropdown with multiple price amounts a viable option?
It turned out that the issue was on PayPal's end. The "account optional" setting that was supposed to be present was not. I talked to PayPal support, and they were eventually able to fix the problem.
First i am not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question , but i found couple of donation questions here. So i thought i should ask it on stackoverflow, but if i am wrong please refer me to the correct stack exchange network site.
We are a group of people who are creating web scripts and applications for free downloads, we never charge anyone. But sometimes it's really hard to spend on a project we are not going to earn. So is it a good idea to use paypal donate button on our site or not.
Apart from me and some of my fellows we have some other volunteers as well who have been creating these free web applications so we need some way to encourage them and pay them some little amount for their hard work. As we have no earnings from the site it is not possible to pay them directly.
Can someone suggest a better way to encourage all the contributors as i found that donate button will be helpful . Still i am not sure and do not want to take any wrong steps
Thanks Everyone
I'd recommend Flattr. It's something between PayPal for small donations and a Facebook Like button:
If a user clicks on it, Flattr will remember that website and, at the end of the month, all people "flattred" by that user will receive a certain financial donation from that user. The benefit of this system is that your users only would have to click once to show their support (both morally and financially). Also with Flattr all money a user wishes to spend will reach you (and hopefully also your volunteers), fee's are paid when putting money on your Flattr account.
Due to its (rather high) fees, I would only recommend PayPal if you expect larger donations.
I'm trying to integrate a payment mechanism to my site. The scenario that I need is not trivial and can be explained by the following example:
User pays upfront for a subscription program (i.e. receiving Netflix). User is able to make changes to the subscription (i.e. change number of movies checked out each time from 4 to 2)
User is able to buy additional one time purchases via the provider's site (Netflix) supplied by 3rd parties. These items (i.e. popcorn, snacks) get billed to the same credit card as the subscription without having to go through the process of resubmitting the credit card information.
Of course, my site takes also a small fee for the transactions :-)
I was wondering if this is supported by PayPal, Google Checkout or someone else.
Thanks.
The Paypal api can handle all of those processes.
I seem to have dropped the ball on what kind of answer you wanted so I'll leave it at that.
If you have some feedback, more direct questions I will try to answer as much as I can
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The money would best go through you first, unless somehow you can convince your customers its normal to bill them per item. Also if they pay by credit card you should only bill them once as you would incur fees on every payment. I don't know of anyway to bill once but distribute the payments.
As for the paypal docs..
Very good resource, there is also some sample code for most major web languages
Also this will get you started if you don't have a developer login
Their developer support is also pretty good. One thing a lot of people seem to screw up when starting out with the paypal api is not setting the latest version in the configs so don't forget to update that to the latest release. :)
Disclaimer..
Yea I know there is a lot of bad press about paypal and crazy stuff happening, but they do get the job done most of the time, its not my fault the customers love to use it.