Which paypal option to choose?

Discussion in 'Payments processing' started by moonwalker, Dec 10, 2011.

  1. moonwalker

    moonwalker aMember Pro Customer

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    Hi,

    I'm still using the 3x version of amember and want to start using paypal. Which option should I use on their page?

    There are 3 options:
    Website payments standard, paying by email and express checkout. My guess is "Express Checkout", but I need confirmation before upgrading my account.

    Thanks in advance.

    Moonwalker
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    I use website payment standard (set for a business account)- you need to then upgrade to premiere to do subscriptions.

    David
  3. moonwalker

    moonwalker aMember Pro Customer

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    @David: Thanks a lot for your reply. And in amember admin which option did you choose? Are there any options at all I need to change in the Admin?

    Thanks again for your help.
  4. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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  5. nwinton

    nwinton New Member

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    I am using one PayPal account for 2 different aMember sites.
    As Instant Payment Notification only allows a single domain to be registered, what is the effect of having a different aMember installation as the address in IPN?
  6. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    In 3.x you can forward the IPN, in paypal settings: "Resend Postback"
    You can then put in the URL of the 2nd amember site.
    Another option is to use an IPN splitter php script.

    In 4.x this has been removed- think its needed so I'll put in a feaure request.

    David
  7. moonwalker

    moonwalker aMember Pro Customer

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    Thanks Alexander for your reply.

    Just one final question:
    I'm using the register page in an iframe so it would look like the rest of the website, but it seems that PayPal doesn't allow the use of iFrame anymore.

    Anything I can do about it? Or do I have to edit the signup.php page to look just like the rest of my website. I'm afraid I have to change all the CSS if I do that.

    Thanks for your help again.
  8. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    Yes paypal do not allow to display their payment pages within a frame.
    You need to get rid of frames for aMember pages, or edit signup.html template and change signup form target to "top".
  9. moonwalker

    moonwalker aMember Pro Customer

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    @Alexander:
    The form target did the trick. Thank you very much. :)

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