I'd like to set up a part of my site as a 'restricted' area that you need to pay via Paypal to access. Can anyone offer some advice on how to do this? Ideally I'd like to have a 'subscribed' value in my database that I can check when people attempt to access the site to check if they have subscribed. I've started looking into IPN which might be the way to do it?
Many thanks
I'm working on a new store that will integrate with PayPal. From what I've read, yes, IPN seems like the way to do it. Have a Subscribe button, and when you receive an IPN message that indicates successful payment, update the user's 'subscribed' field. I think IPN also sends a message when their subscription runs out.
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I need to add push notification in my web site
If a user has made payment for something... we show them alert in their account page on the website that you are now successfully connected to this community
If a user has done payment by check... we clear the payments by check through a cron job... once the job runs and payment is cleared... we show a notification to user whenever they log in saying that their check payment is cleared
A user sends a request to connect to an organisation... that organisation's admin should get an alert in their system saying that so and so person is pending approval from you.
Something similar to alerts that we get in our net banking might be... that your credit card payment is pending... something like that
Like we also get notifications on Facebook... the difference will be that instead of notifications we want to show alerts or messages directly displayed in their account
So, you want notifications in your system about payments.
In its simplest form, you could do it manually with emails, and/or popups in your application, that are loaded from DB when they login. This is sort of a manual system, and the Minimum Viable Feature could be quite easy to build yourself.
If you want it more advanced, like you mentioned, similar to Facebook's notifications button and feed. Then, yes, it might be easier to use getstream.io. It also has websocket integrations so you can get those notifications pushed in real-time. You can then also push other types of notifications in there, like for example: a notification when the user has logged in from a different browser (for security reasons).
I hope this answers your question.
so i've seen some question about this subject but no good answer
after creating a paypal payment via paypal api, the client is being redirected to paypal for payment approval
the payment object also gets a "approved" and "cancelled" urls so that paypal could let my server know what course of action took place within the client's approval process
if the client has cancelled the payment, the http request being sent from paypal looks like this:
/customerCancelled?token=EC-32W183225U612050A
when "customerCancelled" is a get method in my server of course
what paypal claims should be done here is just to cancel the payment in my DB because they already cancel it on theirs
the problem is here - what the hack is this token? its not the paymentID (which is the primary key of the payments in my database)
how does it help me identifying the payment object that was canceled?
it takes a lot of time until paypal answers questions.. so if anyone here has got a clue that would be helpful
thanks
I know this is old, but i dont think the Paypal .net API has improved much since this bug, and neither has the docs.
I noticed that the token you require was on the "approved_url"
I stripped it out, and saved it, so if the cancel is returned, you can look up your order via that token.
I have discovered it. When you enter the cancel URL first you have to ask for access token (if you dont have it stored), then get the payment information (here you can see) and the response contains a cart value, the cart value is same that the token without EC-, I mean, if cart value is 1234567890 the token you have is EC-1234567890.
When you create the payment store in your database (or elsewhere) the payment id, cart value and the final token. Then on cancel you search the cart value in your database and you obtain the Payment ID.
Did I explain?
I am trying to integrate with Intuit PaymentNetwork to take payments on a client's website. I can create a button for payment just fine, but I don't see anyplace to set a callback url that will let my website know the payment was successfully processed. I expected to find something similar to PayPal's IPN service, but I am not sure. Has anyone integrated with this before? Thanks.
My client is using moneris as our payment gateway for a new subscription based website that I am working on.
I will be using the language PHP
I've looked through their documentation for PHP api and am comfortable with how it works, it seems very straight forward.
One thing was missing in the documentation for me though. There is mention of how to start a recurring payment, how to update a recurring payment, but no mention of how to query a recurring payment?
Some payment gateways allow you to have a POST back URL of sorts that get updates on recurring billing status. This does not seem to be possible with moneris.
How do I go about automatting the process of tracking recurring payments with Moneris? I'd like for my customers to log in and be able to view their transaction history on my site.
This information will also make it easier for me to know when to close accounts. Ie. when a payment fails to go through, or a credit card expires? I don't want for my cleint(owner of website) to have to keep track of the recurring payments and cancel accounts manually?
I got an answer from Moneris:
Hi David, We currently do not have a reporting API or any way of
posting the information from our recurring payments back to your
server. It is something that has been mentioned previously and is
being looked into. We do not have a current ETA on such a solution.
we created an online reservation and payment system, we are going to use paypal to pay for the reservation fee.
how do we exactly save the information of our customer and reservation info to our database, after confirming their payment.
how do we confirm that they also paid it?
thanks in advance. as of now we're using the 'pay now' button
You should save the info to the database FIRST, then they can go to the PayPal site. After that, you can use Instant Payment Notification to mark the order as complete.
https://www.paypal.com/ipn
Paypal provide different methods to make payment; you can redirect user to PayPal from your application without taking customer information (e.g. name, phone, email). PayPal API is rich with multiple set of methods like SetExpressCheckOut, GetExpressCheckOut, DoExpressChckOut.
First please make a contract with PayPal and get the Merchant information; later you can have detailed documented API to talk to them.
Thank you