[Harshit Raj Singh]

Dear Sir/ Mam,

I am making a website. In which a user can only signup if he paid in PayPal
In Other word only paid member can signup. Problem is......

suppose a user paid and PayPal redirected to signup form(page). [ Now he can book mark this page and can misuse it ]

I am making my website in asp.net ( framewok 4 ).
And the big problem i am new in web designing.....
I dont know what coading it requires..

I learned a lot in paypal.com/ipn & searched a lot in google but can't understand the code and what they are saying to do
I need step by step process please please...............


please guide me...


I will be highly obliged you.
I am waiting for your reply.....


Thanks Sir !!!

This post has been edited by Harshit Raj Singh: 23 September 2011 - 07:27 PM

[SamFowlerWeb]

Har**** Raj Singh, on 23 September 2011 - 07:09 PM, said:

Dear Sir/ Mam,

I am making a website. In which a user can only signup if he paid in PayPal
In Other word only paid member can signup. Problem is......

suppose a user paid and PayPal redirected to signup form(page). [ Now he can book mark this page and can misuse it ]

I am making my website in asp.net ( framewok 4 ).
And the big problem i am new in web designing.....
I dont know what coading it requires..

I learned a lot in paypal.com/ipn & searched a lot in google but can't understand the code and what they are saying to do
I need step by step process please please...............


please guide me...


I will be highly obliged you.
I am waiting for your reply.....


Thanks Sir !!!

You could always issue a code upon payment that allows them to sign up and can only be used once ?

[rallport]

Firstly, paypal IPN integration has nothing to do with web design

You know you can send custom data across to paypal and use it in your IPN script.

Actually, I wrote a short post about this very issue on my blog at http://www.web-desig...ing-paypal-ipn/

Alternatively, create the account within the IPN script directly and don't have a signup form - the signup page would simply be a link to paypal. the steps would be:

• User pays via paypal using their paypal email
• Paypal posts the transaction result to your IPN script
• If payment is ok and email is unqiue, create a user account using the email as say your username and a random password - email user this info
• When they login for the first time, prompt them to enter any extra info you require - although you can get a lot from the IPN posts data

Alternatively, you could get the user to signup on your website directly, check the email is unqiue there, place a unique and unused signup nonce within the paypal form. Store all this information, along with the signup nonce in your database. redirect to payapl. On your IPN script you can create the account and validate the nonce etc etc etc.

[necrobyter]

I've used the simple link to PayPal option before, it works well.

You do have to login to PayPal to capture the funds though but it's literally performed over a form post, when you click the button you jump to PayPal and then you specify in hidden variables what happens if they cancel or pay.

Some people don't like the fact it's out of their site, however I personally think when you see it's PayPal's own system it does give the website a certain authority, they know it's being handled by a multi-national huge company and the old adage, if it's good enough for e-bay will apply.

PayPal form post

It doesn't really matter what technology you use, it's just a form post.

You should still consider investing in an SSL cert if you plan on collecting user data, but using this simple form post you can have PayPal do everything for you, then from PayPal you can simply print packaging labels etc..

Hope that helps.

Paul.

[rallport]

necrobyter, on 27 September 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

Some people don't like the fact it's out of their site, however I personally think when you see it's PayPal's own system it does give the website a certain authority, they know it's being handled by a multi-national huge company and the old adage, if it's good enough for e-bay will apply.

eBay have used PayPal for difference reasons than you think

I've seen conversions increase buy stupid amounts when sites have been moved from PayPal Website Payments Standard to SagePay Direct.

In my experience from listening to lots of clients, they have following concerns:

• High charges for transaction
• Impossible to call anyone at PayPal if you need help
• Money does not go into my bank account and takes a long time to get there from PayPal
• MY own personal favoutite that I totally agree with: "Paypal treat sellers like a lepper when someone raises a dispute against you - you have 0 comeback" - so very true.
• Using the free paypal people can't use 3d secure

Paypal is fine for smaller sites selling a few items and fine for a bigger site as an alternative payment method.

Re the language used it does matter somewhat, as you need to handle the IPN response - that will obviously be different depnding on what you use.

This post has been edited by rallport: 02 October 2011 - 12:36 PM

[+1r]

paypal form post would do it... just have a look at the paypal api for info on how to do this if you are not sure.