Yes, the way we have chosen is the simplest approach: When a payment is made, then we receive an email from paypal with amount and invoice number. Our secretaries handle this manually, ie. they type the payment into the desktop app.
There are quite a number of options you have, which allow for automation, like callback to a webapplication, for instance. But then you have to dig into paypal documentations, api reference, etc - it depends on how many payments you expect, in order to justify the time for programming a more automated process. One way which might be simpler would be to parse the incoming payment notification email and then do whatever is necessary with it. Appart from an invoice number, you could also add a customfield with hidden information to the url and paypal is sending it back to you with the email. ==== To set a header graphic for the payment page in Paypal: Go to Paypal.com <http://paypal.com/>, and after Login to: My Account -> Profile -> My selling tools -> Selling online : Custom payment pages -> Update URL variables: business=ad...@rabten.com <mailto:business=ad...@rabten.com> // paypal account email address OR Merchant account ID item_name=Seminartitle // One line identifying the item to pay for item_number=Invoice number // an identifier visible at checkout invoice=Invoice number // not visible at checkout, pass in to avoid dual payments no_note=0 // 0=allow customer to leave a comment, 1=do not allow comment no_shipping=1 // Do not prompt buyers for a shipping address. Allowable values are: 0 – prompt for an address, but do not require one 1 – do not prompt for an address 2 – prompt for an address, and require one custom= // User-defined field which PayPal passes through the system and returns to you // in your merchant payment notification email. Subscribers do not see this field. //EncodeUrl any variable! https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=ad...@rabten.com&item_name=Teilnahme%20am%20Seminar%202015-CHI-I&item_number=SEMD&amount=150.00¤cy_code=CHF&invoice=2015-128&no_shipping=1&no_note=0 <https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=ad...@rabten.com&item_name=Teilnahme%20am%20Seminar%202015-CHI-I&item_number=SEMD&amount=150.00¤cy_code=CHF&invoice=2015-128&no_shipping=1&no_note=0> business Your PayPal ID or an email address associated with your PayPal account. Email addresses must be confirmed. custom User-defined field which PayPal passes through the system and returns to you in your merchant payment notification email. Subscribers do not see this field. 255 invoice User-defined field which must be unique with each subscription. The invoice number is shown to subscribers with the other details of their payments _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list mbsplugins@monkeybreadsoftware.info https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
