Thursday, June 7, 2012

Testing PayPal on Website

PayPal provides a testing tool called PayPal Sandbox to test website's PayPal's deployment. We can create pseudo buyer and seller accounts, provide the accounts with pseudo money and cards, and test the transaction and user experience. All this without putting up real money or fees. They have a User's Guide here. However, the basic steps are simple: Create a Sandbox account first...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Paypal Shopping Cart

PayPal's documentation has really very subtle hints about what needs to be done to get Paypal working for a website, and you need to plough through a lot of links to figure out anything useful. On sign up, they take the user to a page with customizable buttons for Buy Now, Subscribe, Shopping Cart. Now, if the site has only one item to sell, it should use the 'Buy Now', if it is selling subscriptions,...
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