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Using PayPal Recurring payments (ie PayFlow / PayPal Manager)
July 09, 2013, 01:46:19 pm
Has anyone had success setting up automated recurring contributions with a newer PayPal Pro Account?      I have this working without issue with older PayPal Pro accounts, but those accounts are allowed to use the older PayPal Pro recurring APIs.

Unfortunately, for newer accounts there is no option to use the older recurring APIs. Recurring contributions must use the new "Payflow gateway" APIs. (This is labeled as "PayPal Manager" in the PayPal account holder user interface )

I added a new CiviCRM payment processor of type "Payflow", but this payment processor does not seem to offer automated recurring payments.   Any suggestions on what to try/do next?

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Re: Using PayPal Recurring payments (ie PayFlow / PayPal Manager)
September 07, 2013, 06:48:33 pm
I am up against this problem, and it looks like no one responded since the July 9 posting.

I've spoken with a few helpful folks in Paypal's Merchant Services phone support, who helped me to understand the problem a bit better.

The instructions for Paypal Website Payments Pro in the CiviCRM Wiki documentation sets up an API with paypal's "Classic API".   I was told by Paypal that I must use their "REST API" in order to use recurring transactions, that the Classic API will not be allowed to process recurring transactions.

My question is, can CiviCRM work with the REST API at this time, or are we stuck with the Classic API?

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Re: Using PayPal Recurring payments (ie PayFlow / PayPal Manager)
September 08, 2013, 10:25:04 pm

dont think we've made any recent changes to the paypal code

can your org/client contribute code and/or sponsor a developer to add support for paypal's new api

thx

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Re: Using PayPal Recurring payments (ie PayFlow / PayPal Manager)
September 09, 2013, 04:31:15 am
Thanks for the response.

The coding is beyond our organization's expertise.   Has anyone looked into what it would take to add support for paypal's REST api?  Depending on what the cost would be, I would be interested in seeing if we could sponsor or contribute to that development.

Still interested to know if anyone has found a workaround for this.

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Re: Using PayPal Recurring payments (ie PayFlow / PayPal Manager)
September 09, 2013, 07:47:01 am

We've not looked at it, but assuming its similar to paypal's other api's i suspect its approx 20 hours (with a few unit tests to ensure things will work in the future)

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