Comments on: Paypal Website Payments Pro (US) with Recurring Billing and ActiveMerchant

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:32:45 +0000

Jamal,

It sounds like you’re misunderstanding how recurring payments work, particularly the Trial period and the Billing period. I would recommend that you review the paypal developer documentation and post to the paypal developer forums since that is beyond the scope of this post. It appears simple, but it’s difficult to get it right so I’d rather not even take a stab at solving your problem. The payments are made at the end of a Trial period and Billing period, so you need make sure that those periods align correctly with your business requirements.

By: Jamal Abdul Nasir

Jamal Abdul Nasir — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:09:12 +0000

this is a nice effort… thnx for the article… really appreciate it…

i have a problem in having initial payment…
how will i charge a user right away using initial payment… i did provide “initialamount” in XML..
(ScheduleDetails.ActivationDetails.InitialAmount)… but still the user is not getting charge… how will i do this..?

thnx in advance…

By: Scott Carleton

Scott Carleton — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:22 +0000

I just wanted to say thanks that this code exists publicly.

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:44:17 +0000

Matt, thank you for the update and glad that you found it useful!

By: Matt Hodan

Matt Hodan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:29:20 +0000

Thank you for the great post. You saved me a ton of time figuring this all out from scratch. I’ve tried to document my experience, which was largely led by your example. You’ll see I changed the API wrapper a little and added details on how to setup your PayPal Sandbox in this post:

http://blog.matthodan.com/how-to-add-support-for-paypal-website-payment

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By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:04:32 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for letting me know it’s useful to you. Was it hard to find this on Google?

Ideally, this would be part of ActiveMerchant. I’ve definitely considered everything you mentioned regarding adding it to the master, but I just don’t have time right now.

The license permits anybody to do it, so hopefully somebody will be able to pick up my slack here.

By: Chris Your

Chris Your — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:34:29 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for an ActiveMerchant/PayPal recurring payments solution for a while now. Have you considered forking ActiveMerchant on GitHub, adding your code, and doing a pull request? This could be a great addition to the ActiveMerchant master branch.

Thanks,
Chris Your

By: Nick Carter

Nick Carter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:44 +0000

Thanks a lot, Chris. This code got me running pretty quickly with regards to recurring payments in Website Payments Pro. There were a few caveats or not quite obvious moments (the code above says it can accept a Time or Date object but I had to feed it a properly-formatted string) but over all this was quite helpful.

By: Geegee

Geegee — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:46:29 +0000

Thank you very much

cheers
Gg

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:41:24 +0000

mcv, This code doesn’t do anything with IPN to my knowledge. We do receive an email everytime an initial or recurring payment is received, but I don’t believe we setup anything special for this purpose. I hope that helps, -Chris

By: mcv

mcv — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:30:10 +0000

I’m not receiving any IPN messages from PayPal. Is it possible that this code doesn’t pass my notify_url on to PayPal?

And if that’s the case, then how did you handle IPN messages? They’re rather vital for subscriptions.

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Hi Pavan,

I just did a quick search through the code, and I don’t see anything that supports this. You might need to :cancel the recurring profile. Best of luck, -Chris

By: Pavan Agrawal

Pavan Agrawal — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:44:56 +0000

Dear All,
In the above code, Can I mark the expiration time for the subscription?

This is very urgent, thanks in advance.

By: Pavan Agrawal

Pavan Agrawal — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00:10 +0000

Ok, Thanks for the help, I’ll post the solution, if I’ll get any.

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:54:34 +0000

Hi, Paypal has a notification system called IPN that can be configured to give you notifications but I’m not very familiar with the services that are available. It would be best for you to post this question on the Paypal Website Payments Pro (US) forum since this is more a Web Service issue than something specific to ActiveMerchant.

By: Pavan Agrawal

Pavan Agrawal — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:54:00 +0000

Dear All,
I got configured the paypal pro at merchant and did all the above code, its nice and gr8 code, I must say.

I have a question, we all are doing recurring payments, and suppose the recurring end date is crossed, then what will happen to the application? will it get the notification from paypal, if so, How to configure that into our application.

Thanks in advance.

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:59:35 +0000

Great, thank you for reporting the success. It’s much appreciated. -Chris

By: Pavan Agrawal

Pavan Agrawal — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:30:59 +0000

Got it resolved, the onlychange I did was

class PaypalGateway < Gateway

into

class PaypalGateway < PaypalGateway

and the class file I have putted in lib dir, it is working fine to me.

Thanks a lot bloggers.

By: Pavan Agrawal

Pavan Agrawal — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:24:13 +0000

addition to the point above, I have made a file in lib dir and using it, I feel that it need some include of dependent file.