[TYPO3-shop] Paypal accounts

[Richard Hirner]

Hello,

Am Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:21:25 +0100 schrieb Tomi Hrovatin:

> Thanks for your thoughts.
You're welcome.

> With 'customers who pay invoices online' you mean by sending a paypal
> link via email?
Exactly. Either a link per mail or - because this is unsecure in times of 
phising etc - they can log in on my site, and then they see a "pay this 
with PayPal" button which is a normal PayPal standard payment button.

> Why standard isn't good for webshops? It does exactly
> what's expected.
Yes, but I don't want that customers have to click on a "buy now" button 
in the middle of the buying process. Also, I think that the return URL 
from standard payment can be faked, i.e. you can trick the Webshop so 
that it thinks the payment was done although it wasn't. To implement this 
with standard payments, I think you would need the Instant Payment 
Notification. But then Express Checkout isn't more work either.

> Exactly. If you don't have paypal account, you MUST create one. With
> standard you can decide if you want account or just pay with CC.
Hm... I checked this and it seems to be true. I always thought you'd have 
to create an account with standard payment, too.

> Express have some neat functionality to check the user before you
> redirect him to paypal and because it uses API it is probably more
> secure. Can we use API with standard? I didn't get so far.
I don't think that there is an API for standard payment. (except Instant 
Payment Notification)

> And one more question: Can I use Express with Business account? They say
> that I need a merchant account which is available with PRO only.
Don't know. But you can get such an account easily by verifying your 
account with a credit card. As far as I know, there are no additional 
fees.

-- 
Richard Hirner