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user2260230
user2260230

Reputation: 1

Pay Pal Recurring Payment Integration

I have a site which will receive money from customers in a regular period(Say once in a week). I am storing my clients details in my database and i want withdraw money form my customers account with out prompting them for authentication every time.The amount will be vary with respect to the customers. How can i do this with pay pal?Do i need to buy pay pal pro for implementing this.I read some docs related to recurring payments and reference payment services of pay pal, but i don't know how it will work when my business pay pal account registered in Australia.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 372

Answers (2)

Tarun Upadhyay
Tarun Upadhyay

Reputation: 724

You can use PayPal Recurring Payment method for this.

As you said you do not want you want to withdraw money from there account without authenticating them again, you have to create a subscription profile of customer on paypal via an NVP API (CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile).

After you get the Subscription ID of the customer with a success message you need not to store customers details (card details), which is also illegal to do so.

While calling the

CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile method of API

You need to set the following fields.

BILLINGPERIOD = MONTH or DAY (according to your need)

BILLINGFREQUENCY = 2 (means after 2 BILLINGPERIOD )

TOTALBILLINGCYCLES = 10

For Example : if BILLINGPERIOD = MONTH & BILLINGFREQUENCY = 2 & TOTALBILLINGCYCLES = 10 then automatic payment will occur after every 2 months till 10 payment cycles are completed.

You can also find the example code here :
http://paypal.github.io/sample-apps/

Upvotes: 0

brodie
brodie

Reputation: 5424

We recently (Jan 2013) implemented a recurring payment integration with PalPal for an Australian site (paypal account).

We used;

I can't say the experience was a pleasant one, a lot of reading, phone calls to support, and hair-pulling - but we got there in the end.

Depending on your situation I would suggest looking at Pin Payment Gateway (https://pin.net.au/) as an alternative.

Upvotes: 1

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