Website Payment Pro

Just want to confirm that the latest Paypal patch dated 5/10/07 by Dr Byte refers to PayPal Express checkout only. Am I correct that the modification for Web Payments Pro is still in developement. Thanks for your help.

Yes its still under development,
it will come in a release not a patch

Merlinpa1969:

Yes its still under development,
it will come in a release not a patch

So you cannot yet use PP as a merchant account? if i want to use PP for reg cc payments and also allow PP express, there is not solution? as a newbie, that is not clear in the product description. please confirm...thx.

Is there a guesstimate for release date?

watching

mark it

Paypal Website Payment Pro + CHeckout without creating an account = I am looking for this to happen!!

waiting eagerly.

Merlinpa1969:

Yes its still under development,
it will come in a release not a patch

Is there any update on this feature?

I just heard about this... PayPal NVP. ( https://www..paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_nvp.html)

It is an easy to use set of API calls to work with Website Payment Pro, and bypasses all the SOAP craziness! I think this would make integration with Zen even easier as it is just simple API calls somewhat akin to IPN but server initiated.

Is this of help/usefulness or am I already pointing out the obvious?

Thanks Dave.

The NVP API is what the Express Checkout and the upcoming Website Payments Pro code will be using for communications to PayPal.
Definitely much tidier than soap ...

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but is there an ETA on a module that allows direct payment with paypal pro?

all anyone ever hears is its ready when its ready,
they dont give timelines

but they are working on it

Hi Dr. Byte,

You've helped me before. I have another cart at malcolmmcnab.com/store/. We are only using the PayPal module. He has had web site payments pro on his settings. I'm sort of PayPal illiterate. The problem is that it isn't transferring any data that you can distinguish as a product -- for example...in the paypal details page it lists, quantity always shows "1" and for the customer id, it shows the zencart id - but for the Item, it also only shows "1"....everything else works and it takes the payment, but it would be helpful if it would show the item titles or numbers that were ordered. My client has been and is use to utilizing the shipping label area to send out his CD's via the Postal Service. However, he can't tell by the information on the detailed page how many CD's or items the person ordered...it really only shows the total. He doesn't want to use the admin in the cart, because he hasn't the time to learn it and is used to his system. What we need is the item to perhaps state the number of the item from the zen cart. For example, if the CD item number is "4" - have it state, a "4" -- the other items are all downloads, so he doesn't need to see those. I'm a bit stumped how to resolve this issue and still use the cart for this. If I change his settings type in Paypal, though, would that mess up his system...he's used to doing it one way, and it's hard when you have someone that is busy and used to something to switch them over...he's pretty stubborn about it...so any insight would be helpful...I appreciate your help with this very much.

Kinget.

PS...we're using the latest downloaded version of zen. I got this one running within the past week! :-)

Any news? Waiting

If you're referring to Website Payments Pro, see Merlin's post above ^^^^

Just saw it...what I read doesn't look hopeful -- looks like we'll have to look into another alternative in the meantime. Please continue to keep us posted.

Thanks,
Kinget

kinget,

you can use paypal express, this will pass anitemized list,
paypal IPN is such a PITA with what breaks it that the cart sends an agregate total to paypal
However the shop owner and the customer both get an itemized receipt from ZenCart

Merlinpa1969:

kinget,

you can use paypal express, this will pass anitemized list,
paypal IPN is such a PITA with what breaks it that the cart sends an agregate total to paypal
However the shop owner and the customer both get an itemized receipt from ZenCart

oh thank you for this. Do I have to change his set up inside Pay pal to use pay pal express or just switch the module we are using? Thanks so much for your help. :-)

Kinget

there ar ea few things to setup paypal express,

I dont know them all off the top of my head, however there should be docs in teh docs file and in the wiki

Well, I managed to get the PayPal Express going, but I had several problems. One problem was that the PayPal Express doesn't give the option to the customer of being able to pay without having a PayPal account. I find that a problem, because we got lots of complaints when the option wasn't available before. Also, I couldn't use it because I kept getting address errors. It kept saying that Shipping, City, State blank, cannot process. So, I went back to the PayPal IPN....GRRRR...:frusty:

Thanks for your help anyway. I'm not going to worry about the error, - I just went back to IPN and will need to find another way about those details. The express isn't going to work for us either.

Anyway, I am going to cross my fingers and wait for the new module to come out. I hope there will be better solutions there.

Thanks
Kinget....

kinget:

Well, I managed to get the PayPal Express going, but I had several problems.
...
I couldn't use it because I kept getting address errors. It kept saying that Shipping, City, State blank, cannot process.
These address errors are typical of using an older version of the PayPal express checkout module.

nevertheless, if you're no longer intending to use the module, it's a moot point.

Hi Dr. Byte,

Oh...Wow...Where's the newer module? :lookaroun

I hadn't realized I had the old version since the cart was the most recent version download. I would try it again -- however, we would still have the issue of people not wanting to have a pay pal account to make a pay pal payment. Does the newer version resolve that issue as well?

Thanks for the info.
Kinget