I need help setting up PayPal professionally...

Xarzu

I want to know if anyone here has used paypal or any other online payment system in their website. I want to know how you can sell subscriptions to paid areas on a web site. What is the means by which you can tell the difference between paid subscribers and unpaid visitors? Is it some hidden identification? Is it internet cookies?

sunshine54

you can use wordpress. i use paypal buttons for subscriptions and send members a password to access member only pages.

John_Gray

Xarzu wrote: »

I need help setting up PayPal professionally...

To be quite honest, you need professional help - otherwise it may cost you even more...

Xarzu

sunshine54 wrote: »

you can use wordpress. i use paypal buttons for subscriptions and send members a password to access member only pages.

Did you use IPN to set up the paypal system?

It seems that IPN is the best choice for an online merchant system with PayPal. In order to test the system I have taken the advice to set up a sandbox first.

I seem to be having some problems with doing this. First of all, there is a list of types to pick:

arguemax.com/sandbox/sandbox%20001.jpg

From this list, I picked "Web Accept".

This page asks for the "IPN handler URL". I assume this is supposed to be the URL of the page that we set up that to be used as the location where PAYPAL sends confirmation to and the page has PHP and MYSQL script to put a confirmation in the database.

Anyway, I got an error message:

arguemax.com/sandbox/sandbox%20002.jpg

Did I do something wrong or is it the fault of the sandbox?

neneromanova

sunshine54 wrote: »

you can use wordpress. i use paypal buttons for subscriptions and send members a password to access member only pages.

Christ, How unsafe is that? How many people do you think have actually paid and how many have just given the link to someone else without them paying.

Xarzu wrote:

I want to know if anyone here has used paypal or any other online payment system in their website. I want to know how you can sell subscriptions to paid areas on a web site. What is the means by which you can tell the difference between paid subscribers and unpaid visitors? Is it some hidden identification? Is it internet cookies?

You need a professional login section where if they buy/pay for your services, that username is allowed access to your material you are selling. Find a professional company to help you out. Should cost somewhere between £400 to as high as anyone charges.

Xarzu

neneromanova wrote: »

Christ, How unsafe is that? How many people do you think have actually paid and how many have just given the link to someone else without them paying.



You need a professional login section where if they buy/pay for your services, that username is allowed access to your material you are selling. Find a professional company to help you out. Should cost somewhere between £400 to as high as anyone charges.

It should be easy. PHP is easy. MySql is easy. If PayPal says they have a system that works, then it should work with this minimal bit of test code. I should not have to pay anyone. What magic would they perform that I could not perform on my own?

tdlwebs

Quite apart from getting users to sign up via Paypal (which is very easy to implement), you need some way of managing subscribed users. One way that works for me is to use the free CMSMS (Content Management System Made Simple) software with the FEU (Front End Users) plugin.

As I'm new to the forum I can't post a link but you'll find it if you google "cmsms +feu".

faevilangel

You're going to need to pay someone, if you want the system done automatically.
It needs a script based system, where a user can pay the subscription then set up an account to access the data. Their login details would be stored in a sql database, meaning it's secure.

You can do it by having it manally done, where you creare login details for people, then send them the info.

By having it done automatically, you need to do a lot less work, and the system is more secure and easier to update in the future.. If your idea is making money, then isn't it worth spending some money to get a decent system set up.

It should be easy. PHP is easy. MySql is easy. If PayPal says they have a system that works, then it should work with this minimal bit of test code. I should not have to pay anyone. What magic would they perform that I could not perform on my own?

How is php & mysql easy? Would you know how to stop sql injections and other security issues? It's not how hard it is to learn the code, it's how long it takes to write it. There are reasons why people are paid as professionals. You could build a website using dreamweaver, but it probably won't be as intuitive as a custom built system by a professional.

You're paying for their expertise,

Paypal works fine out of the box, but what you want is beyond paypal's code. You need additional code to link your system, and paypal's together.

Depending on how you want your system to run etc, you may be looking at £800 + for a professionally built system.

RobertoMoir

Xarzu wrote: »

It should be easy. PHP is easy. MySql is easy. If PayPal says they have a system that works, then it should work with this minimal bit of test code. I should not have to pay anyone. What magic would they perform that I could not perform on my own?

If its easy then why do you need help? There are plenty of guides out there to authentication, and to using payment services. I personally think that some parts of setting up "pay" websites are a specialist operation that is best farmed out to someone that knows what they're doing.

Xarzu

tdlwebs wrote: »

Quite apart from getting users to sign up via Paypal (which is very easy to implement), you need some way of managing subscribed users. One way that works for me is to use the free CMSMS (Content Management System Made Simple) software with the FEU (Front End Users) plugin.

As I'm new to the forum I can't post a link but you'll find it if you google "cmsms +feu".

No, paypal offers IPN service.

Xarzu

RobertoMoir wrote: »

If its easy then why do you need help? There are plenty of guides out there to authentication, and to using payment services. I personally think that some parts of setting up "pay" websites are a specialist operation that is best farmed out to someone that knows what they're doing.

I did not say it was easy. I said it should be easy.