PayPal Business Advanced module?

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OK not trying to be a greasy wheel or anything, but is there any kind of time frame on this being deployed?

There are other platforms that support this feature but of course I wanna stay with what I know, IE: Zencart.

Thanks

As of December, I think DrByte was quite clear on where this is at..

Ya, PayPal started offering PPA in April.

As far as the plugin goes, the code still needs much polishing. Been debating posting the unfinished code as an "alpha release" for use-at-your-own-risk testing at large. I'm sure there'll be lotsa complaints about that approach, but I guess I'll never be able to please everyone.

So if you are looking at this for any kind of upcoming project, and you feel that you HAVE to have PayPal's Advanced Payments on your Zen Cart site, then at this point it appears you have two options:

1. Explore other platforms
2. Engage the services of a developer to create this module for you
3. Use the existing PayPal payment modules

Quite frankly all this clamoring for Advanced Payments seems to be molehills being made into mountains. PayPal isn't really offering anything NEW. They simply created a hybrid product which embeds the Express window on your site. Here's what DrByte posted:

Yes, you've always been able to use PayPal Payments Pro to take credit card payments directly on your site. Requires PCI compliance self-certification.
And Express Checkout can also take credit-card payments without requiring a PayPal account.

The Payments Advanced option is somewhat of a hybrid of the two, where the credit card processing shows on your site in an iframe but is hosted at paypal, basically taking the bulk of the PCI stuff onto PayPal's end.

If you think you NEED this simply because you want to add the PayPal financing feature, then my suggestion is that you should go back to PayPal's site and compare the three business payment offerings again. They ALL offer the PayPal financing option AND so it's clear you MUST be on the PayPal site to use it (ie: PayPal Express). So it would appear that waiting for a module which amounts to embedding the PayPal Express page inside Zen Cart JUST so that you can use the financing option makes no sense since a PayPal Express module for Zen Cart already exists..