Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Alvin Starr
This whole line of thought opens up the area of API's Having a programmatic way to access the accounting system (other than faking out the web interface) is to some extent a vital feature. Another nice feature would be the ability to set up events. For example allow an external program to be run

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Lyle
On 23/02/2011 23:40, Luke wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Lyle wrote: >> I think on one of their APIs you could automatically bill customers you have >> paypal agreements with. Taking the money right out of their account without >> the need for any request or payment link. > You might be talking abou

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Luke
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Lyle wrote: > I think on one of their APIs you could automatically bill customers you have > paypal agreements with. Taking the money right out of their account without > the need for any request or payment link. You might be talking about subscriptions, or recurring payments

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Lyle
Various comments I think on one of their APIs you could automatically bill customers you have paypal agreements with. Taking the money right out of their account without the need for any request or payment link. This seems to be increasingly popular online. Lyle

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Luke
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Darren Wiebe wrote: > When I send out a PDF invoice it has a link to Paypal containing the > invoice number and total price. When they click the link they're > presented with the paypal site with the payment information > prepopulated. It works quite well. Care to share you

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Luke
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Luke wrote: > I need to track down the PayPal link/button generation code. Which I have now done. In its seemingly most basic form, it goes something like this: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?business=email_address@to_be_paid&cmd=_xclick¤cy_code=USD&amount=12.34&ite

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Darren Wiebe
On 23/02/2011 1:01 PM, John Locke wrote: > 've got a similar idea that might share a solution: a custom payment link. > > We currently accept payments through Ubercart on our web site. I've set > up an invoice product there, with fields for amount and invoice number. > I can construct a link that a

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread Luke
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, John Locke wrote: > I've got a similar idea that might share a solution: a custom payment link. > > We currently accept payments through Ubercart on our web site. I've set > up an invoice product there, with fields for amount and invoice number. That is one of the user-driven

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] PayPal Integration

2011-02-23 Thread John Locke
Hi, I've got a similar idea that might share a solution: a custom payment link. We currently accept payments through Ubercart on our web site. I've set up an invoice product there, with fields for amount and invoice number. I can construct a link that adds the product to the user's cart with appr