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PayPal clarifications
January 12, 2010, 10:16:32 pm
The forums and the wiki have a wealth of useful info, but it is not always clear whether some of it is still current. So I'm still kind of missing the big picture regarding various PP options.  Could someone help me fill in the gaps?

1. Do recurring payments on PP Standard require that the donor have an actual PP account?  Or does it provide the same option to just enter a CC# on PP's website (as with one-time payments)?

2. I saw on an old forum (http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5866.msg25756.html#msg25756) that "PayPal … makes periodic callbacks to CiviCRM … if the subscription is cancelled etc".  How does this work?  Does it require a shell/cron script?

3. Am I correct in understudying the recurring payments ARE now working for PP Pro in 3.1?

4. I began the signup for a PP Pro account and was offered an add-on "recurring payments" option (for an addition $30/mo fee).  Is this required for recurring payments with PP Pro, or is it something else?

Thanks for your help.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 02:51:45 am
1. I think a CC is sufficient, but you can test this fairly easily.

2. This works by a cron job (or similar) on PayPal and requires nothing further on your end.

3. I believe so.

4. You do not need this extra fee item.

All answers are "AFAIK" and may not be 100% correct, but you can certainly test using the no-monthly-fee version of PayPal.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 09:58:39 am
Ken - I haven't tested this personally, but based on Jira issue status PayPal Pro recurring is part of the 3.1 release:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4802

If you wind up setting this up, testing and using it - would be great if you could update the relevant section(s) of the wiki as needed. thx!
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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 01:17:52 pm
I'll update the wiki if I go that route, but I'm leaning against it.  Still at the deciding-which-payment-processor(s)-to-use stage.  I was hoping these answers would help decide.  If recurring charges on PP Standard required a PP account and PP Pro was definitely working, I would go that way.  But as it stands, I'm leaning towards authorize.net + PP Standard (for recurring only).

We're a 2-person NPO, so I'm not sure I can afford spending 1/2 day or more setting up PP Pro just to maybe find out it doesn't work and then having to go back, cancel our account, and start over with authorize.net.

Guess I was hoping someone who was already using PP Pro for one-time charges had gone on to test the new recurring functionality.  Hm.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 01:24:04 pm
Should take 10-30 minutes to setup a PayPal account. I can confirm anyhow that I use Ubercart's recurring payments successfully with "PayPal Website Payments Standard" and there is no monthly fee on that PayPal account.
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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 01:33:27 pm
Really?  I looked at these instructions and guessed much longer:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMUPCOMING/PayPal+Website+Payments+Pro+and+Express+Configuration

Related Q: Do I need to actually have a working, activated PP Pro account to test on the PP sandbox?  Not having to sign up for and then cancel a Pro account would make it more worth the effort.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 13, 2010, 01:39:44 pm
I meant just to create the account on PayPal, not configure CiviCRM. But if you just want to test, it shouldn't be a half day. I suppose it depends on your experience level, however.

Second answer: No, AFAIK, the sandbox account you can make without confirming nor even creating a real account. Should be easy to try anyhow. :)
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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 25, 2010, 04:12:36 pm
I am trying to find out if this has been implemented in the beta testing as far as I can tell it has not.

I would like to set it up, any advise would be welcome.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 25, 2010, 06:10:45 pm

can u elaborate a bit on what you did to arrive at that conclusion?

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 26, 2010, 04:43:58 am
I am trying to setup re-occurring payments via paypal pro. Is the patch listed in the link added to 3.1 or do I need to add it?

I can't seem to find that the patch in the current installs...

Thanks for your help.

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 26, 2010, 07:46:04 am

this is included in the 3.1 distribution. You should try setting up a recurring payment page

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Re: PayPal clarifications
January 26, 2010, 07:57:07 am
recurring payment page?

Where do I find it. I am not seeing it in the docs...

There is documentation for  paypal standard but what about Paypal Pro?

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