I considering integrating Shopify platform with third party loyalty/rewards provider.
For that I need to be able to allow customer to redeem his points at the moment of purchase.
This will involve adding extra control to Shopping cart, such as button [Redeem your points]
Can I use ScriptTag injection to:
Access information about currently logged on customer (customer email) ?
Modify current shopping cart total and have customer to pay less than total (let him apply loyalty points)?
Arbitrarily modifying the cost of a cart/order is not possible. Based on this restriction, I do not recommend trying to integrate/implement points card functionality.
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Is there a way to post an order, including payment information and shipping information, to Shopify for a new user?
For example, user ABC wants to purchase a product through my website (that is not a shopify website), and I gather all of the information required to make the purchase, including shipping address, credit card, etc. User ABC is not known to Spotify. Is there a way for me to use the Shopify API to process this transaction, including payment processing and everything else?
Shopify has a sales channel called Buy Button. You can use that for your purpose.
Buy Button
Creating a Buy Botton
Adding a Buy Button
How shall I integrate custom shopping cart app with PayPal to accept indirect credit card payments without forcing buyers to register at PayPal?
There's a custom shopping cart web application and the task has been set to replace current credit/dept card payment with PayPal. The goal is to let the customers pay with their cards via PayPal. However, there are some constrains:
customers should enter their credit cards details (number, expiry date, secure code) not in shopping cart's page, but PayPal's page,
every payment must consists of authorization (blocking total sum) and subsequent capture if the ordered items are available and can be delivered,
customers aren't forced to create / login to PayPal account if they wish to pay via card.
The trouble is I'm really confused with the number of possible options at PayPal. The choice between REST API and Classic API isn't that problematic, but choosing the proper product from the whole list (like Classic API products or REST API products) isn't that obvious for PayPal newbie. Some other similar questions point to DoDirectPayment (but I don't know if it's the best choice) or suggest Website Payments Standard (I'm not sure if they're still available).
I was also considering Express Checkout, but the demo seems to force to create PayPal account.
ExpressCheckout is designed to be used in concert with a direct credit card acceptance method (such as PayPal's DoDirectPayment, or a non-PayPal credit card acceptance method), although it can be configured to also do guest payments. This is why the demos of the normal configuration handle only PayPal account creation; that's the normal usage.
One key question you need to ask yourself is whether you want to have access to the credit card information & be the "merchant of record" yourself or not.
YES: Doing this gives you the most flexibility, but will require you to go through some merchant vetting and carries some security obligations (PCI) even if you are using some solution which tries to distance you from the actual raw card numbers (e.g. collecting them via PayPal or Braintree code and immediatly encrypting & tokenizing them). In short: if you want full access to the card, then you have legal obligations re: handling that account access which technology can reduce but not eliminate.
NO: If you are content to always treat your customer's card information at arms length through PayPal, via the legal structure of a PayPal account (whether the user actually has a PayPal account or is just doing a "guest" payment on PayPal where they give PayPal their credit card for one-time use) then you can reduce your vetting & security constraints (no PCI requirements at all).
If you want (or need) access to the customer's card [YES above] then the "classic" API solutions are either DoDirectPayment (for when you collect the card info) or Hosted Sole Solution (for when PayPal collects the card info on their page). HSS meets all 3 of your requiremens above; DDP fails requirement #1.
If you can live with access to the customer & the payment but NOT the card account itself [NO above] then you can use Website Payments Standard, or EC with Guest Checkout option; both meet all three of your requirements.
All of the above solutions are not only still supported, but have tens or hundreds of thousands of integrated merchants and are the biggest/mainstream ways in which PayPal payments are handled.
If you prefer the newer products & are in the first category above (real card access, not guest payments) then you can also use Braintree or the RESTful APIs. These newer products don't yet have as much flexibility & coverage as the older products, but hey, less complexity can be a good thing as long as they have what you need. These products are generally designed around plugins for your web pages rather than entering card information on PayPal's site, however, so they don't meet your first requirement.
You can also do PayFlow (several variants) or Adaptive Payments or or or.... but in general I would advise picking either the most well-established or the new-and-growing options as being better supported & more future-proof.
Now that PayPal has acquired Braintree, the preferred integration method is v.zero. It is designed to be very easy to accept PayPal, Credit Cards and other options. (Venmo, Bitcoin, etc.)
I have been reviewing the API documentation for Shopify and am trying to figure out if the cost of an item selected from the 'Store' can be passed in a Get command back to a different website so a different website can charge for the Item along with other charges from a website ...and then once the payment goes through on the website, send a POST to shopify that the sale was complete and proceed with fulfilling the order?
Our software is newspaper software so we provide newspapers with subscriber web portals were customers can sign up and pay for a newspaper subscription.
We would like to offer the ability to add Single Sales items to what a customer purchases and we want to be able to do it in one payment transaction
I have reviewed the various Shopify API documentation but it is not clear if the API supports getting cost info and posting a successful charge back to Shopify to complete the fulfillment step. We are looking to be able to GET the cost for a selected single sale item passed to us from the Shopify API so that we can add it to the Amount we pass to the Payment Gateway we integrate with and when the payment goes through, send Shopify a success on the payment.
The ultimate goal is to have a customer make one payment that can include single sales items as well as a newspaper subscription or day pass.
You should do a POST and create an Order using the Shopify API once (at your side) are sure the payment has gone through.
I have successfully used the PayPal REST API's to create and execute a payment in the sandbox, but even though I have shipping options and tax rates configured, they do not show up for the user. I expected the shipping options and calculated tax to appear before the user "approves" the payment. Is this feature supported via the REST API's, and if so what do I need to pass to make it happen?
The tax and shipping profiles are only for PayPal Standard transactions (the "Buy Now" buttons). API integrations like the Classic API and REST API are for more advanced integrations and are designed where PayPal returns the shipping address selected to you and your system chooses the tax rate and shipping rates before the customer confirms payment.
The PayPal shipping calculator only applies to Website Payments Standard transactions.
Express Checkout transactions will not use the shipping calculator.
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Merchant-services-Archive/Using-PayPal-s-shipping-calculator-with-Express-Checkout/td-p/328404
This is related but doesn't answer the question fully I'm afraid.
I've just started looking into applying different state taxes using the PayPal REST API. The override_charge_models option when creating a new BillingAgreement looks hopeful. It allows you to apply a custom tax amount when creating an agreement.
So I'm working on this website where users post their items, other users add some items to their cart and purchase them online.
The flow i was thinking about goes like this:
A merchant posts an item along with their credit cart/ paypal information.
A buyer adds items (from different merchants) to his/her shopping cart and purchases.
The buyer pays by filling a form that includes the payment method fields within the website's layout (no redirection to paypal).
The website will work as a gateway, it will capture the payments from the buyers and pays the merchants accordingly and automatically.
Is this possible using PayPal? if so, what API should I use?
Any input/idea is appreciated...
Thanks,
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I have also investigated using PayPal in this way for a site with a similar concept. Unfortunately, PayPal does not allow this. This makes you something known as a Third Party Payment Aggregator which drastically increases the risk associated with providing you a Merchant Account (which is what PayPal is doing). You can read more here.
Though, you could probably do it for a while before PayPal caught on, they could cancel at anytime leaving you high and dry. I recommend investigating Third Party Payment Aggregator solutions (Braintree has something that helps with this).
I guess it is. Use Paypal API
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/howto_api_reference
https://developer.paypal.com/