I am totally new to this site but am happy I took the discion to join.
However at the moment I am really confused on how to gain approval for the Pay Pal chained payments API in Market Press.
Have found myself bouncing around inside here and Pay Pal X developer site and have ended up with more questions than answers.
I have noticed that some of you have gone through the process successfully and wondered if any of you had written a roadmap of the whole process from start to finish that you might be willing to share.
From what I've seen on these forums no two processes are identical. Paypal will fire off a number of different questions depending on your set-up, purpose, product type, business status (plc, ltd, etc).
I suppose the only part of the process which remains constant is that they want screenshots and a way to test your cart in sandbox mode which from memory they mention whilst you fill out their application. I know WPMUDEV give pointers in their docs.
I think apart from that it would be hard to get any more precise. Sorry.
thanks for your reply, seems like this is a bit of an iffy topic which I feel should have some decent docs to guide users as it's not a run of thre mill thing for the average user to try and do.
Anyway I have made some progress and have got 2 x sandbox sellers addresses and 2 x buyers addresses set up and have sucessfully performed transactions and got some screen shots as well. I did have problems though because on occassion when clicking on the pay pal button I fouind myself at the sand box login page, not what was expected but I think pay pal are having an iffy day.
April 12, 2011 - 12:30 pm: Pending: The payment is pending.
The payment is pending while it is being reviewed by PayPal for risk.
Don't know if this is normal behaviour for sandbox or not as this is my first time using it, but at least the transactions are going through the whole flow process.
Now I have this cracked the next step is to complete the application and keep my fingers crossed.
I will document this whole process and make it available once completed in the hope that it might help some poor soul along the way.
Cant help you with your particular question, but definitely just be patient, although it's painful working with Paypal.
It took me quite a while working back and forth with the guys from Paypal to get it setup. Must have been at least 20 - 30 messages!!
All works 100% now though so was worth it.
Would be great to see your outlined process.
APi credentials all using the sandbox detaiuls for this seller sandbox account.
I've asked some of the other guys to chip in here so we can all help with that guide you're putting together. I think that'll really help other members so major kudos coming your way when you get it done!
I've only ever played with Sandbox once and that was a while ago and not a pleasant experience :wink: but is this correct? IIRC you will have a sandbox email address and API creds to enter instead of live ones?
Right thanks Phil, any amd all help would be good here as this process is quite a bit beyond what I normally do and I have to say I am resonably experienced with over 12 years working on the net, I have hacked many scripts to get them to do what I want, the latest being wp-ecommerce but this is really something new.
I got the chained payments sorted out in the end, thanks to the first response from Pay Pal regarding the API approval process, they pointed out to me in a round a bout sort of way that I was using express instead of chained, so I went back and checked again and yes the settings I have written earlier were wrong.
Next select your currency and then Sandbox and finally enter your Pay Pal sandsbox address for yout test seller account.
This is now working for me perfectly and I can trace the payments from the test buyer to the test seller and then the commission payment from test seller to site owner all in the Pay Pal sandbox.
"Please be aware that we will deduct a 10% fee from the total of each transaction in addition to any fees PayPal may charge you. If for any reason you need to refund a customer for an order, please contact us with a screenshot of the refund receipt in your PayPal history as well as the Transaction ID of our fee deduction so we can issue you a refund. Thank you"
Ok so maybe I got my set up all wrong from the start, but in my defence there wasn't much direction avaialble, but it's ok now and I am happy to share my experiences.
Yeah in order to use a payment gateway you have to select it to use it.
Glad you got it sorted. I'm not sure we would have caught your mistake without being able to see the set up, we all assumed because you were asking about Chained Payments that you were using Chained Payments.
I think my mistake was having both chained payments and express selected in the site admin and express selected in the seller shop, think I was tired and frustrated when I wrote yesterday about my settings.
But my roadmap will most certainly include these details, on the subject of approval by Pay Pal, I am just waiting for a decision as they said all questions have now been answered, has taken just over 24 hours so far.
My approval took over 6 weeks, though this was over Christmas and I was told that the bad weather effected the time, in the end I had to send off a message and it was approved in a few days after that.
I have made my guide for this now, it's in PDF so how should I make it available here, do I need to send it across to somebody frst for proofing?
Great news! If it's below 200KB you can simply attached it to a forum post here. Otherwise, send me an e-mail through the contact form and I'll grab it over e-mail!
it's 424kb, went to the contact form you mentioned above but there isn't anywhere to attach it, can it be e-mailed direct or PM'd to you, let me know.
That's fine Dave, just send an e-mail through the contact form and then I'll get back to you.
4 to 6 weeks seems to be about the average. I thought ours had gone through, but it hadn't, it is still under review. We are at about the 4 week mark (or there a bouts). No questions have been asked by them in well over a week.
Awesome work on getting the guide done, I'm sure it will benefit others!
wonder why it takes them so long to approve the app as they say on their site that it takes about 10 days or exceptionally 15 days, strange.
Yes I hope the guide does help some people out, in fact I am also thinking about doing one for the sandbox as well but will ask Phil about that first, but am sure it would help people out who are new to it as I was.
I'm really not sure, but it is painfully slow. I log into their X site just to make sure there was not an issue with an e-mail coming through and I just see that the app is still under review.
in fact I am also thinking about doing one for the sandbox as well but will ask Phil about that first, but am sure it would help people out who are new to it as I was.
did you get the contact form I sent you yesterday, the internet was all over the place at my end and I think I may have lost a couple of e-mails along the way because of this.
Sorry for the delayed response, I've been out all day yesterday! I've now responded to your e-mail.
Hey Guys, I have been looking for this guide! This is great. Could you share the link to the guide made by Ozbod?
How current it is I don't know now.