Can I achieve a groupon / kickstarter like payment system with paypal uk

Question

I.e. user clicks buy, I authorize their card and wait 2 weeks and see if enough users have pre ordered a given product before charging them and shipping.

I'd like the following -

• To avoid pci compliance I'd prefer to whisk users off to paypal for getting c.c. details.
• progmatically reauthorizing any preorders and capturing funds is fine after 2 weeks. But for my prototype doing this via the paypal account dashboard is fine.
• my app being notified when a user successfully preorders (ie. there card is authorized by paypal) in order to update my "preorder" counter on the site.

For my prototype I want to avoid as much coding on this so offloading as much as possible to paypal, even if it means I have to manually handle reauthorizations and payment captures is actually better in the short term.

Can paypal uk provide this functionality and if so which business solution is this? standard or pro?

Answer 1

You should be able to do this with standard; However considering that you eventually would want a "tighter" integration with your back-end systems and, it might be a good idea to start with pro itself.