[ic] Status of Paypal Intergration

Wed May 1 11:22:01 2002

Again to mention WE offered to PAY RedHat to do just what Dan has
mentioned/quoted below... With one condition, that it must wind up in the next
public release for everyone... RedHat said NO. To me this means they already
have a PayPal module, they just don't wish to share it...

By the way, just so you know, the iTransact module does basicly what is outlined
below, with a little twist. So it should be VERY easy to convert to PayPal, then
alter Payment.pm to make it a seamless part of Interchange.

Again both of which RedHat REFUSED to do for MONEY and then include for the
publics benifit.

John Beima
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Quoting Dan Browning <dbml@kavod.com>:

> 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
> 
> As you can tell from the archives, this has been asked a lot.  I've taken 
> Jason Kohles viewpoint on the matter...
> 
> This post by Curt Hauge <chc@mninter.net> includes directions for a simple 
> (but not pretty, and not seamless) Paypal solution:
> 
>
http://interchange.redhat.com/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-April/020041.html
> 
> This post by Jason Kohles <jkohles@redhat.com> explains why a really good 
> paypal solution is hard (but could be done for a paying client), and why 
> the simple paypal solutions either:
> 
>   * aren't integrated/seamless, or
>   * require the paypal username/password (a big no-no)
> 
>
http://interchange.redhat.com/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-February/018090.html
> <quote>
> The main problem is that you have to leave
> Interchange in order to complete the payment, which means Interchange
> has to enter your order in the order database, and then send you off to
> paypal, which leaves it up to the merchant to check paypal and determine
> if you actually paid after you left the site before shipping your order.
> The easiest idea I had to integrate this was to have Interchange enter
> the order with a flag in the order table indicating that the order had
> not been finalized yet, and then to toggle the flag once paypal posted
> the payment information back to you and Interchange verified that the
> payment was authentic.  This is the structure I have worked on
> implementing, but as I mentioned, the real answer to 'whhhhyyyy won't
> you make a PayPal mod' is 'if you want it free, you get it whenever it
> happens to be done, if you want it now, you should hire someone to build
> it for you'
> </quote>
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> 
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