Comments on: More on ActiveMerchant and Paypal

By: Matt Collins

Matt Collins — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I’m looking at setting up something very similar. Am I right in thinking you can accept and update recurring payments made via credit or debit card (not just via a PayPal account)?

By: Robin Fisher

Robin Fisher — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, this enables you to accept all forms of credit and debit cards without the need for your users to have a Paypal account.

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you for your posts, they were helpful to me when I was getting started.

I have written an implementation of Paypal Website Payments Pro (US) WITH recurring billing:

http://blog.vuzit.com/2008/08/01/paypal-website-payments-pro-us-with-recurring-billing-and-activemerchant/

I hope it is useful to this audience: -Chris

By: Jon Baker

Jon Baker — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Robin, Thanks for your articles on this. I have the AM PDF by Cody but cannot see which section you used for creating recurring payments. Chris above has rolled his own AM gateway and I have seen Cody has submitted a patch for PayPal Express Checkout to do Recurring payments. Looking at the docs for AM it suggests that the PayPal gateway does not support recurring payments. Can you confirm whether you are using standard method calls on the AM code for example:

profile_id = PayFlowGateway.recurring(amount, credit_card, options)

- I think PayPal Websie Payemnts Pro (UK) is indeed PayFlow. And if you did this, do you need to setup an authorisation first. Alternatively, have you had to customise or extend the PayPal gateway to create the recurring payment request manually?

Thanks in advance

By: Andy

Andy — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hello! I’m using this same approach for recurring billing.

One question I have…when you MODIFY an existing profile on PayPal by passing in profile_id, do you know if there’s a way around having the send the credit card again?

I’d prefer not to store credit card numbers and then pass them again when updating a profile on paypal.

Thanks,
Andy