Well stated Todd. Security for a small business just trying to make a small presence on the net does not want to be respoisible for that kind of info.. it only takes one lawsuit to ruin the business! So, I am reading the PDF from paypal now.. im sure it will work for what I need.
Thanks for your input as well. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Todd To: CF-Talk Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: Re: CF and PayPal Well, I looked into this as well Mike, so you're not alone. I actually paid 15 bucks to someone for a paypal tag only to discover how easy it was and ... majority of your questions / answers can be found on that link that Justin pointed out. Everyone might hate paypal, but that's credit information you don't need to have on your server (imho). I don't want to be responsible for credit security. So, paypal works for me... ~Todd At 03:42 PM 6/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: >anyone else have input? > >Thanks for your Justin.. Im gonna wait for a few more replies then check >into it. > >Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Justin Scott > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: CF and PayPal > > > > I have a shopping cart on a clients website and he would like > > to use paypal to process the final transaction. > > Ok.. first off, be prepared for a number of flames on this, as many people > hate PayPal for various reasons. I personally have no problem with > them, so > here we go... > > 1. Once the user submits the order, you will need to store it and flag > it as > "in process" somehow. > > 2. You will need to use one of PayPal's wizards through their web site to > setup a sample multiple-item purchase. You can then use that sample > data to > build the URL you will end up sending the users to for payment. > > 3. PayPal has a fairly new feature called Instant Payment Notification. > This is setup on the PayPal account and basically will post a form to a URL > you specify. This should be a special processing page on your server that > will flag the specified order as "paid" then notify the client, etc. It > will also need to post some information back to PayPal for tracking > purposes. > > Most of the info you will need can be found at: > https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pdn/paypal-solutions > > You will need to be logged in to access that link directly. > > If you don't feel like building everything yourself, take a look at the > developer's exchange. There are a few existing PayPal custom tags that > will > handle everything, but they all required registration the last time I > looked. > > Hope that helps a bit! > > -Justin Scott, Lead Developer > Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. > http://www.sceiron.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
