From: t-nex on
G'mornin'
Can you use paypal to sell membership to a web site? Like if they click the
paypal button and purchase, paypal sends them an email containing login
information that you wrote? What would such a thing be called and where
would I find it?
Cheers



From: Tsunami Australia on
On 21/04/2010 8:15 AM, t-nex wrote:
> G'mornin'
> Can you use PayPal to sell membership to a web site? Like if they click the
> paypal button and purchase, PayPal sends them an email containing login
> information that you wrote? What would such a thing be called and where
> would I find it?
> Cheers
>
>
>

You could just sell membership as a commodity through PayPal. Can be
done physically but I'm not sure of PayPal's rules and regs.
From: Rob on
On 21/04/2010 8:37 AM, Tsunami Australia wrote:
> On 21/04/2010 8:15 AM, t-nex wrote:
>> G'mornin'
>> Can you use PayPal to sell membership to a web site? Like if they
>> click the
>> paypal button and purchase, PayPal sends them an email containing login
>> information that you wrote? What would such a thing be called and where
>> would I find it?
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>
> You could just sell membership as a commodity through PayPal. Can be
> done physically but I'm not sure of PayPal's rules and regs.

There are some plugins/scripts so that paypal payment system can be
added into a web page.

this book is but one reference

Professional Web APIs with PHP: eBay, Google, PayPal, Amazon, FedEx,
Plus Web Feeds
byPaul Reinheimer
Wrox Press 2006 (378 pages)

Extract from book ......................


Chapter 10: Interacting with the PayPal API
Overview
PayPal is an international payment gateway allowing businesses and
individuals to transfer funds in a secure manner over the Internet.
Using PayPal to accept payments has several advantages for online
merchants: It is a recognized brand when it comes to Business to
Consumer (B2C) transactions, creating a business account with PayPal is
easier (and faster) than opening the merchant account required to accept
credit card payments directly, and finally, because PayPal lends its
name to the transaction, customers may feel more comfortable entering
into a transaction with a previously unknown merchant. That being said,
however, PayPal's transaction dispute system requires a tracking number
from a shipped package to respond to a customer dispute. If the product
is purely electronic (a download or access to a site, for example), your
response to disputes will be quite limited.

Several of the API examples shown in this chapter make use of the cURL
and OpenSSL libraries, which are not compiled into PHP by default.
Please see Appendix C for more information on how the development box
was configured to include these libraries.

This chapter covers the following:

An overview of the PayPal API

PayPal's development sandbox

How to accept payment via PayPal with a payment badge

Encrypting the transaction

Instant Payment Notification

How to search and retrieve transaction details

How to issue refunds

How to use the MassPay feature



From: David on
In article <nIpzn.20418$pv.810(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"t-nex" <t-nex(a)t-nex.nex> wrote:

> G'mornin'
> Can you use paypal to sell membership to a web site? Like if they click the
> paypal button and purchase, paypal sends them an email containing login
> information that you wrote? What would such a thing be called and where
> would I find it?
> Cheers
>

Should be OK as I pay through them for membership of a site

David