PayPal is probably the most widely used online payment processing facility, and it has a whole range of different methods through which you can accept payments on your website.
One of the most useful features is the Paypal Data Transfer facility (PDT), which posts details of successful transactions back to your website (so that you can then print out to the customer, store in a database, send out an e-book or whatever else you might wish to use the information for.)
The first step involved is to turn on Paypal Data Transfer. This can be done either:
- by accessing the profile of your Paypal account and switching it on there
or
- by choosing ‘additional options’ when creating a Buy it Now button, and turning it on there.
However you turn it on, make sure that you make a note of your token (a long string of random characters) which is shown on the page that confirms the facility has been turned on.
The next step is to create a script that will receive the data, post it back to Paypal to confirm it’s valid, and then process the data for you. Now, you can either do this yourself by referring to the Developers guidelines, or if like me you are looking to spend your time more valuably elsewhere, you can use the script generator provided on the link below at PayPalTech:
PayPal Data Transfer Script Generator
This allows you to generate script in either PHP, ASP or ASP.NET. However, bear in mind that you will need the token mentioned above to use the generator.
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