Yeah all true... and yes I ended up using the SOAP requests eventually but after taking a step back from all my hard work I came to realize that I would probably lose more customers through this process then gain. If I were running an eBay store then the Express Checkout may be worth all the efforts but in my type of business it would likely hinder things.
Still I'm not really trashing the PayPal system it does have a lot of potential for people wanting to start a business on a budget. I may end up trying to implement the new Google Pay as an experiment. It could offset some of my AdWords cost. Has anyone tried Google's system? - Neal Bailey - www.AdvancedGraFX.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Phone: 817-346-2635 -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Credit Card merchants Just to add to some of the comments about PayPal Pro....I just completed integrating it into CFWebstore for a customer and it is indeed a real pain to do...particularly the Express Checkout section. However, you don't really need to create any objects. The samples with DirectPay using Java objects...not really necessary. Their API just uses SOAP requests, so you can just use CFHTTP to send and parse the responses. It's basically just XML. They even have a site with sample PayPal SOAP requests to make this easier to build. I'll agree the documentation is not great, but this at least is very useful to have and made it far easier to do. If you have a decent handle on SOAP and XML that part at least was not too bad. It's just a pain because there are so many steps in the Express Checkout process, it really isn't a typical payment method at all and likely to confuse customers, IMO. There were other issues to work out...lack of billing information provided, dealing with IPN notifications of payment updates, etc. Not for the faint of heart. -------------------- Mary Jo Sminkey http://www.cfwebstore.com CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
