Keep in mind... if any of your systems so much as touch a PAN, you need to address PCI compliance.
As for PayPal, my familiarity is with their Adaptive products, which do support JSON and are RESTful... but the actually card handling is done via an iframe, so PCI isn't relevant. Their other APIs, I've no idea, I've played around with ancillary components, but the SDKs make it all pretty abstract and I'm really more of a "proof of concept" quality developer anyhow. (It is important to use their sandbox for testing though, otherwise issues like needing to wait a day to test recurring payments will surface.) This wasn't intent on selling PayPal, I just thought it'd be good to keep in mind for someone who just wants to completely dodge PCI and people outside the US often relegate it to eBay-only status. Picking a payment system as a start-up is no different than any other choice... pick what your resources in hand are most comfortable with, it'll always be cheaper and better in the long run than attempting to fumbling through an unknown. Rob On Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:10:41 AM UTC+11, Dan Washusen wrote: > > That pretty much sums up our experience… and nope, no JSON/Rest based > API. They are still rockin' it like it's 1999 with SOAP or alternatively > their own Name Value Pair thing. We chose NVP which may have been the > reason our experience differs so much from Rob's… > > p.s. If you're using a Java based language I've published a modernised NVP > client which uses current HttpClient, logging, libs (the official version > was last updated in 2003 or something): > https://github.com/danwashusen/paypal-nvp-base > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
