Anyone know how to create a transaction in the paypal sandbox?
It keeps saying go to my transactions software... all over it says my transaction software. Thing is.. I don't have transaction software. I'm just trying to get the details of a transaction. :)
I have an app that integrates with several back ends (ebay, westfield, google, amazon... ) if someone buys something from there, using paypal, I get a transaction ID. I want to be able to retrieve the details of the paypal transaction because (god love em) they allow the user to change the ship to address or add special instructions, but they don't pass that info back to the "merchant".
I was thinking I'd create a test user in the sandbox and then see if I can get the details of a transaction, sadly I don't see a way to create a transaction.
Anyone find their docs equally mystifying? I am in Nod.
You will have to create another test account ie one account will act as seller and other will act as buyer.
From sellers Paypal account, you will have to create button.
Steps to create PayPal button:
Login to your seller's test account in sandbox.
Click on 'Merchant Services' tab.
There you will find Create PayPal payment button
Fill out the form as per your requirement.
This will generate a HTML script.
Create a HTML file and copy paste this HTML script.
Open the HTML file, You will get a Paypal Button.
Click it and accept transaction by buyers PayPal account.
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I've used my live PayPal account to login to developer.paypal.com where I created 2 new accounts buyer# (personal) and seller# (business). I've implemented a PayPal plugin for a shop (CubeCart + PayPal Standard Payment Gateway plugin https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/payment-gateways/paypal-standard). When I complete an order (sandbox testing) I sign using buyer# email and password and complete the order. I can then click to view account and it shows "payment to", "unclaimed" and the amount I've paid. When I logout of this account and login as my buyer#, I see no transactions. If I log back into developer.paypal.com and go to transactions under "Sandbox" section and select any of the email addresses I see the same statement for all of them "You don't have any transactions".
If I login to sandbox.paypal.com using james-facilitator# account (business) there are no transactions here either.
If I login to sanbox.paypal.com using james-buyer# account (personal) there is only the one initial transaction here for the initial 9,999 funds
I've obviously missed something but I can't think what, I'm not sure how a sandbox account knows who it's seller should be but I've checked both sandbox seller accounts. I find it strange that the buyer account I used has registered the transaction but it seems like it's orphaned as there isn't any other record of it any where else including the developer.paypal.com sandbox transaction. I've tried this several times to see if I could get it working and I've also allowed for 24 hours just in case there was a delay somewhere.
I just want to be able to test transactions before going live.
Any help/advice?
Much appreciated :)
Cheers
James
Solved - silly really now I know but it was simply the email address I used to test the API. I used my main live account and I should have used the fake email address in my API call. Since my live controls the test accounts I assumed that this should have been used.
I'm using Paypal rest api to make payment
the workflow is:
Create payment
Redirect to approval Url
User approved (return back to my site)
Execute payment
But there's one thing that I don't want users re-filling shipping address again because it was filled in my website.
So I change the workflow to:
Create web profile (set no shipping field)
Get web profile ID
Create payment with experienceProfileId given
Redirect to approval Url
User approved (return back to my site)
Execute payment
But I found this will create a lots WebProfile every time user request payment.
I think it is crazy to do:
create and delete it later again and again
attempt listing WebProfiles and check which is the one I want to use every time while creating payment
store experienceProfileId as a constant
What is the best practice for handling WebProfile or does there any solution just hiding shipping address while user approving payments?
Maybe this is not the answer regarding this "WebProfile". As a fact, I dont know what exactly "WebProfile" does or is.
I worked on the same Workflow these days. As you wrote I needed to predefine some address. For me it was obvious, that I have to do the database-stuff on my Website. Then I exactly define the order, shipping_address, etc. and send the users to Paypal.
If you predefine the new ShippingAddress() to your ´new ItemList()´ by
$itemlist->setShippingAddress($shippingaddress) the user cannot change it within the Process.
http://i.imgur.com/nAg8jxU.png
Maybe this helps you a little.
I am creating a website where user can buy digital stuff. Its not downloadable material or something like, just a sensitive data.
I used paypal payment button and integrated it to my website. I tested it using paypal sandbox. So, i would like to perform a certain action once the user purchase the item and roll back to the site. So please tell me how it is possible?
For any post-transaction processing you want to do you should use Instant Payment Notification (IPN).
Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is a message service that automatically notifies merchants of events related to PayPal transactions. Merchants can use it to automate back-office and administrative functions, like automatically fulfilling orders and providing customers with order status.
For PHP PayPal provides a basic IPN script to get you started. Alternatively, you could take a look at this IPN template solution I put together many years ago. It has an installer that sets up a MySQL database for you, and then it automatically saves all of the IPN into the database and emails you notifications. You could start with that and then easily customize it to suit your needs.
Using developer account of paypal I could get client ID and secret key by creating an app but not with the live account.
I am using REST API for transactions on my website where I ask users(who has paypal accounts) to enter their client ID and secret key, and use this info to transfer the money into their account, payments are done by credit card.
It is working fine with the developer account but where is the option to get client ID and secret key from live account ?
OR
Is there any other way I can do this, I want to transfer the money to paypal accounts and payments are always done from credit card.
This has changed at PayPal. (Quite a lot actually!)
As before - log in to your PayPal account at: https://developer.paypal.com
PayPal, like everyone else, Wants to show ads. So you may have to look around to actually get to the developer website. Just keep looking until you get to where it has "Log in" at the top.
Once logged in click on the "Dashboard".
Once to the Dashboard click on the "My Account" FIRST- BEFORE anything else.
Once to the "My Account" part make sure you can do everything (ie: there are GREEN check marks in both columns. Or if you don't want to do some things - make sure they are NOT check marked.)
To activate (or Enable) something just click on the link and follow what it says to do.
Once through with that click on the "My Apps" link on the left. If you are no longer where you can do that then go back to #2 above and start over.
Once on the "My Apps" page; click on the link to "Create App".
This will ask you to name the app and select an account to develop the app with.
Once through putting in all of that information - you are through and PayPal will give you all of the information you need.
I don't know about anyone else - but that's just a few more steps than just logging in and clicking a button. :-)
You should use the new Developer Portal to create your Apps and get sandbox and live credentials for each: https://developer.paypal.com/
Log in to https://developer.paypal.com and click the Applications tab.
On the https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/applications/myapps click Create App.
On the Create New App page, provide an app name.
Click Create App, and then review the information displayed about your app (as described below)
now you will get client id and secret key
I am trying to find a way of sending email invoice via google checkout's API (and also in PayPal)
I can't find how. or at least how to generate a new order (money request)
thank you
From: http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_Comparison_Part_I.html
Requesting Payment by Email Invoices
What is it? Email invoicing lets you sell without an online store. Buyers can place orders from you by phone, fax, email or other offline means; then you send email invoices from the Merchant Center to the buyers requesting payment. Email invoices contain a personalized message from you regarding the requested payment as well as a "Pay now through Google Checkout" link. When buyers click this link, they are brought to Google Checkout where they can complete the payment process.
Best for: Use this option if you don't have or need an online store.
Time required: There's no setup — just open a Google Checkout merchant account and you can immediately start sending invoices.
Technical skills required: None. Just Internet access.
Demo: Email Invoice and Wizard (requires sign-up)
Processing Orders: (Part II) Once orders start coming in, use the Merchant Center to charge orders and update order status.
Next Step: How to request payments by email invoices
From what I've seen, looks like they don't have a way to do this through an API. Hopefully someday they will, but for now I think I'll have to create my own email with a link to my own page that sends them to google checkout via a custom Buy It Now button.
It's too bad - it'd be so simple to just be able to call send_email(name, email, amount, message) and have it be the same as logging in & doing it through the Merchant Center.
I do understand the rationale a little - if you're capable of creating an automated invoicing system that can call a google API to send emails, then you should also be capable of creating a link, custom button, and letting the user checkout that way. I still want it though - I'm lazy.
Can you submit the form data in the way that the google checkout portal does? then it would authenticate and autofill the form?