PayPal?

Re: PayPal?

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OurLink Technologies, Inc. wrote:

> Define real-time...?
>
> PayPal in and of itself does not support real-time. However, they do
> have a feature known as IPN (Instant Payment Notification) which gets as
> close to real-time as needed for most applications. Basically their IPN
> allows you to sell products and services via a PayPal button or link and
> have the information about the sale be posted back to a URL of your
> choice. Once you receive the postback you go through a series of
> verification steps to ensure the postback is an authentic postback from
> PayPal and once verified process any defined business rules that you
> need to perform upon payment notification.
>
> At the time of this writing we are in the final testing phase of our
> PayPal implementation with OptiGold using the Optiskin Customer Signup
> pages that you developed. How's it going so far? Excellent! Our testing
> has shown that our average postback response from PayPal upon a sale
> from our website is averaging 10-20 seconds.. That qualifies for
> real-time for me as it allows us to provide a confirmation to the
> customer signing up during his signup session.
>
> The other nice feature that we are implementing of PayPal's IPN is that
> it allows for subscription based billing. We have set our implementation
> up so that all of our Optigold accounts get billed on the 20th of each
> month. At signup time we let Optigold calculate the prorated amount the
> customer owes and pass this through to PayPal as the initial payment
> along with the on-going monthly recurring billing amount. Then each
> month Optigold generates an invoice for the customer and the next day
> PayPal automatically processes the payment for the transaction and posts
> the notification of the payment to our postback URL. Using our defined
> business rules we validate the payment and then apply it to the
> customers account. All automatically!! Voila, on-going, recurring
> monthly billing and we don't have to do a thing to make it happen each
> month.
>
> Life is wonderful!!!
>
> If you are interested in our implementation of PayPal's IPN contact us
> off list.
>
> BTW - I recommend PayPal because it is used by over 40 million customers
> around the world, handles credit card and check processing, has low
> monthly processing fees - lower than many merchant accounts and provides
> buyer/seller protection services.

Well, it's not that I don't want to... but the "IPN" of PayPal requires a
something to be listening for PayPal responses (since they could happen at
any time). In theory, someone could make a FileMaker plug-in for it that I
would be happy to incorporate, but I do not know of any out there.

- Shawn

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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696

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