[ic] Re: Paypal

[Ed LaFrance]

At 05:55 PM 03/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting David Schnardthorst - Eregion (daves@eregion.org):
> > I have found a lot of postings concerning integration with
> > Paypal.  However, I have not found anybody yet who has complete
> > integration.  Has this occurred yet, and if so, where can
> > I get some examples.
>
>It is easy to *get to* PayPal, just not so easy to get back.
>
>Integrating is as simple as providing a button on the checkout
>page. But completing the order is at the whim of the buyer, who
>would have to click the link paypal.com provides on the payment
>final page.
>
>That is the problem with most of the send-them-to-a-website payment
>providers.
>
>Possible workarounds include setting up an email parser that would
>receive emailed order notifications from PayPal and complete the order,
>etc. And if by some chance PayPal allows a "silent post" then it
>can be completed.
>
>Unfortunately they appear to have no developer integration links on
>their website; I have looked (as recently as two days ago) and there
>is no technical info on how to integrate.
>
>Right now there is and can be no module. No one has ever ponied up with
>consulting dollars to have us integrate one, and there has been no
>user-integrated module. And without technical info, I won't spend my
>time working in the dark to do one.
>

...I went as far as to contact them, proposing that they consider some type 
of gateway or "silent post" interface for their services, explaining that I 
and/or others would most likely hammer out some kind of support for such a 
service in Interchange and put it into the code base.  We had a few 
exchanges via email and they collected a slew of data from me (probably for 
marketing).  That was more than two months ago - no word since.  I don't 
think they are ready for it right now, or they just don't see the benefit 
to them.

- Ed L.




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