New PayPal Product - PayPal Payments Advanced

terrynshed wrote:Hi Qphoria,

I am familiar with the override option and the affects of using it with paypal standard. Since I ship 50% of my orders internationally, I have avoided this feature.

But with Paypal Advance you mention this may work better. So if I understand, with Paypal Advanced you can safely use this address override flag. Does this means that the shipping address entered into opencart would override the paypal registered shipping address for those that already have a paypal account.

This would be excellent.

You mention that there is no place to change your shipping address since it stays on your site. Though if a customer already has a registed paypal e-mail, and logs into paypal to use their account, then this paypal address may be different than what they entered into opencart.

I guess this is where the address override would have to work properly. It would need to replace the registered paypal address with the opencart address if it is different.

Thanks.

Well there are 2 pieces here.
First off, at its heart, paypal advanced is payflow. Ignore the fact that this is paypal. This is just some credit card processor like any other. Orders are stored in your "manager.paypal.com" account, not your normal paypal account. Customers don't have options like change address or anything like that. The data passed in by the gateway is the data stored on the order. And looking at the manager panel, I don't see the option to print labels at all, so I think you are focusing on the actual paypal account piece, which is a button at the top of the iframe form.

In fact, for the first version of this mod, I hadn't even thought about that button, but it looks like I may need to.

Yes, this is the button I am concerned about. I also brought this up with paypal a few days ago when I was signing up for the service. I asked them a lot of detailed questions in this area of shipping addresses This button at the top of the paypal payment frame will allow customs to login to their paypal account and use their 'paypal' shipping address instead of what they have entered into opencart.

This is where I thought the override may work, but again I am not that familiar with that feature. Only read about it.

This would not be an issue if I could avoid having to import my daily orders from paypal into stamps.com. I started another thread about how to import opencart orders into a batch processing postage software. Was very curious how others use this. I can't be the only opencart user that uses batch printing for my daily orders and uses paypal to accept payments.

Stamps.com has suggested a work around I will be trying by exporting orders from opencart, then importing the file into stamps.com. May be the solution with only an extra few steps.

I'm looking forward to this new extension. It will give the websites a much more professional feel without the added monthly expense.

Thanks,

Terry

I'm looking forward to this

i hope payapl aprove you Q so then we can start buying and testing your mod out

They had to call me to ask me some questions about what I sold.. they said I am approved now, but have to wait 24 hours after I agree to their terms to activate the account. Overall the process has been ridiculous. I was up and processing within 20 hours with Merchant One.. its been almost a week now and I had to make 2 phone calls, fax over ID, utility bill, declare my life, creed, state of sanity, and all but piss in a cup just to get some $5/mo service.

That's interesting.

I applied online last Thursday, and on Monday morning (7th) I received an e-mail saying I was approved. No questions asked (besides the online form).

Haven't done anything with it yet, so hopefully I don't run into any snags.

Terry

I applied last Thursday too and got a voicemail this morning (8th). Based on Q's experience, I'm in trouble. I'm nearly insane and I drank way to much last night to give them a urine sample.

Well they said I'm active now, but my manager.paypal.com site still says "declined" for the paypal advanced status
I tried an order today on sandbox and it was declined saying I do not have rights to call this API method
However, I can use the Paypal button on the iframe form and checkout that way.
It uses the exact same callback process and goes down the "accept" path so I was able to finish the extension.
Zipping it up now.

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