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micropayments
March 12, 2010, 05:17:26 pm
Paypal offers a service that seems to deal with lower fees for micropayments.
You can sign up https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run&account_type=2&country=US&cid=M6QJAVRNHEXRFSRN
Anyone know if this will use the same Paypal Payment Processor options that are now in Civi?
Just wondering if a new plug in needs to be made?

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Re: micropayments
March 17, 2010, 04:27:08 pm
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Re: micropayments
March 17, 2010, 05:49:00 pm

might help if someone steps up and does some research / scopes out what needs to be done with regard to this and how it integrates with CiviCRM. Finding out what the difference is between paypal's current api and the micropayments api would help developers a lot. Finally if it is different, raising funds to get someone to build a new payment processor for this would be the next step

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Re: micropayments
March 25, 2010, 08:04:36 am
i did a little bit of research on this and it seems pretty straightforward. the deal is that if you want to use paypal micropayments you must have a separate account for this. so the civi integration would call for the following:

- additional account entry at civicrm/admin/paymentProcessor for 'Processor Details for Micropayments'
- code that checks the total cost for a user and if it's < $12 use the micropayments account; otherwise use the regular live payments account.

ubercart has been working on integration for this and their patch is here: http://www.ubercart.org/files/uc_paypal_2accounts.patch

something very similar could be integrated for civi. thoughts?

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Re: micropayments
March 25, 2010, 01:10:15 pm

will be a bit harder since a site can have multiple payment processors but each "transaction" page has only one payment processor.

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Re: micropayments
March 26, 2010, 08:05:55 am
i was just talking with kylejaster on irc and in most cases integrating something like UC does in that patch is probably overkill (in that in Civi this would be more complicated because of ability to have multiple payment processors). so really in most cases you can have a payment processor set up for regular and one set up for micropayments account. then on a per-event basis you could choose which one is applicable.
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