[ic] Status of Paypal Intergration

[Ed LaFrance]

At 10:30 PM 4/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Beating on a dead horse... (about Paypal.com integration).
>
>I'm finally ready to start implementing!   Thank you Dan Browning for 
>pointing out that you can't install to two servers simultaneously.  At 
>least this is part of what I derived from our conversation and you were a 
>life saver.  Without this tip, I could have been pulling my hair out for 
>ANOTHER two months...  Please correct me if I'm wrong but I found 
>bin/makecat to work MUCH better when you're not trying to force the 
>catalog to install to a separate secure server.
>
>Anyhow, now that I'm starting setup, I discover that there are six payment 
>options standard in the system.  Unfortunately, my favorite option, 
>PAYPAL.COM is not one of those.  Exercising due diligence, I have searched 
>the archives for approximately one hour but have not come across a 
>solution.  Found a lot of folks asking the question in the fall of 2001, 
>and a couple of promises, but did not find a message that implied a 
>solution has been found.
>
>So... what is the status on the Paypal Intergration?   I have 
>traditionally accepted lots of credit card payment types, as long as they 
>come through paypal.com.   Perhaps I should be looking at other options 
>that don't require membership or is a Paypal.com option available and I 
>just haven't seen it.
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Andrew Lietzow
>Member of the GNU generation
>The ACL Group, Inc.

My understanding is that, as of tomorrow, PayPal will no longer be able to 
process Mastercard transactions, along with thousands of other third-party 
processors (known collectively as 'aggregators'). That is a big blow to 
Paypal's viability as payment processing solution. Unless you know 
something I don't, I suggest you bite the bullet and get a 'conventional' 
gateway/merchant account setup. That is what I have done.

- Ed L.


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