PayPal and/or Square?

I have a merchant PayPal account and a PayPal card swiper. And I am about to start offering in-person tours where I want to accept cash-less payments.

I need to accept as many payment methods as possible, and hopefully turn away no one.

Can I use PayPal to process credit cards without requiring someone to log onto their PayPal account?

Does PayPal accept AMEX and Discover?

If I purchased the EMV Chip Reader from PayPal, is there any reason to use SQUARE?

On a second note...

Does SQUARE offer a lower discount rate than PayPal?

I would consider using both PayPal and SQUARE if they have complementing services.

Thanks

In Ms Access I am trying to make a API call to Paypal to try them out. But no matter what I get a Error "0". Does anyone have any idea what the problem is. I have put my code below.

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Public Function PayPalGetTransactionDetails()

'On Error GoTo Errorhandler

    Dim Http As New msxml2.XMLHTTP60
    Dim Doc As New msxml2.DOMDocument
    
    
    Dim fp1 As String
    Dim fp2 As String
    Dim XmlString As String
    Dim UrlPath As String
    Dim TransactionIdValue As String
    Dim APICALL As String
    Dim UserNameValue As String
    Dim PassWordValue As String
    Dim SignatureValue As String
    Dim SubjectValue As String
    
    
    UserNameValue = "MyUserName_api5.gmail.com" 'API Paypal User Name
    PassWordValue = "MyPassowrd" 'API Paypal Password
    SignatureValue = "MySigvalue" 'Supplied by Paypal.
    APICALL = "GetTransactionDetails"
    SubjectValue = "Dgstgsgsh@gmail.com"
    fp1 = "C:\Database\ExportedOrders\PaypalApiTestRequests\"
    fp2 = "C:\Database\ExportedOrders\PaypalApiTestResponses\"
    UrlPath = "https://api-3t.paypal.com/2.0/"
    TransactionIdValue = "57547564e67744757"
    
    
    Http.Open "POST", UrlPath, False
'    Http.setRequestHeader "CONTENT-TYPE", "text/html"
'    Http.setRequestHeader "Username", UserNameValue
'    Http.setRequestHeader "Password", PassWordValue
'    Http.setRequestHeader "Signature", SignatureValue

    
    XmlString = "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>" & 

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Nowadays, PayPal is one of the most widespread payment systems all over the world. It makes internet payments easy and quite fast. Even online gaming providers which have the premium content option or gaming staff for real money are accepting PayPal in their products. What is more surprising, even online casinos like ones from this list http://free-slots-no-download.com/paypal/ allow you to make payments with it from your account. So I am interested in your opinion about it. How do you think, why it is so popular?

Running the following CURL command:

curl https://tlstest.paypal.com

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I am faced with an error to do with the  SSL certificate:

curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). The default
 bundle is named curl-ca-bundle.crt; you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.
[#### ~]$ curl --tlsv1.2 https://tlstest.paypal.com/
curl: option --tlsv1.2: is unknown
curl: try 'curl --help' for more information
[#### ~]$ curl --tlsv1 https://tlstest.paypal.com/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA)

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Greetings,
My Paypal account has my four business bank accounts configured. My business is a charity (hofffoundation.org) which comes in four parts and people make donations. I am seeking to create one form/UI where a person would land (by clicking a link from our website, for example) where the user would be presented with a pull down menu of where they want to direct their donation.
The four donation 'buckets' are:
Hoff Foundation
Esther's Place
New Day Cafe
Queen, It's a New Day
Could you help me find an instruction on creating the pull-down menu, liked to the four different bank accounts? PayPal support has been less than supportive :)
Thank you!
JohnD

Here are the codes I have written to submit my shopping cart details to paypal.

        private $_api_context;

	public function __construct(){
             $paypal_conf = Config::get('paypal');		
             $this->_api_context = new ApiContext(new OAuthTokenCredential($paypal_conf['client_id'], $paypal_conf['secret']));
             $this->_api_context->setConfig($paypal_conf['settings']); //the problem is here
        }


       //PayPal
        $payer = new Payer();
        $payer->setPaymentMethod('paypal');


        //PayPal
       $items = new ItemList();
       $items->setItems(array(
	     'name'=>$v['name'],
	     'currency'=>'USD',
	     'quantity'=>$v['quantity'],
	     'price'=>$v['price'] * $v['quantity']
       ));


       //PayPal
      $amount = new Amount();
      $amount->setCurrency('USD')
	->setTotal($ship[0]['total_grand']);
				
      $transaction = new Transaction();
      $transaction->setAmount(2.55)
	->setItemList($items)
	->setDescription('Your transaction description');
										
      $redirect_urls = new RedirectUrls();
										
      $payment = new Payment();
      $payment->setIntent('Sale')
			->setPayer($payer)
			->setTransactions(array($transaction));
								
       Log::info($payment);
							
	try {
		$payment->create($this->_api_context);
	}catch (\PayPal\Exception\PPConnectionException $ex){
		Log::info($e->getMessage());
		Log::info($e->getData());
	}catch (Exception $ex) {
		die($ex);
	}
							
	$approvalUrl = 

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Can you insert a module in another module?  I was requested to insert a PayPal donation option (which is a module) in the top banner of our website.  Is that possible?  I don't see a way to get that to work.  Can the PayPal donation function be set up as something other than a module so it would work?  Thanks.

Hi everybody, I'm not able to finalize development of PayPal IPN Listener.
I'm integrating Paypal into a php/Mysql based website. IPN fails when I try to add a new record to Mysql table of orders.

I make one step back to explain the issue.
I succeded in creating (in the Sandbox environment) merchant express checkout button and fully configured IPN notifications.
Uploaded code to my php page once clicked the 'buy now' button, connection passes smoothly to Paypal Sandbox asking buyer to log in.
Once buyer is logged in it's possible to interact with Paypal and buy.
IPN listener successfully gets purchase parameters and report on a file (just for debugging) parameters and sql string to be used in my PDO.
Everything works just fine and on the backend of the merchant profile I see the purchase notification appearing in the IPN history and parameters are clearly showing that payment has been succesfully made.

Problem is given at PDO call.
PDO call to open connection and execute sql to add record fails.
PDO parameters are ok (same throughout the whole site), sql works fine (run directly to mysql web interface it does its dirty work).
Try-catch doesn't capture any exception and script to create log file (during PDO) doesn't run.

Any advice? Many thanks !

• $payment_status="Completed"
• test.txt produced
• exception.txt and complete.txt not produced

IPN Listener.php

<?php namespace Listener;

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hi there
i can't receive money on pay-pal
i used my mail and mu pay-pal link and it doesn't work
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when someone want to sent my money this message show to him

We can't send your payments right now. If the problem continues please contact Customer Support.
If you continue to encounter problems, please contact customer service.

I am trying to get a site setup which uses s2member.  It is a wordpress site.  i am getting the below error after a payment is made through paypal.  After a payment is made it is supposed to redirect the user back to the site to register after they have paid for their membership.

ERROR: Unable to verify $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].
Please contact Support for assistance.

If you are the site owner, please check the custom value in your Button Code. It MUST start with your domain name.


Below is the button code i am using:
[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="2" ccaps="" desc="1 Year membership  / $0.01 one time charge" ps="xxxx" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.thesitename.org" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="0.01" rp="1" rt="Y" rr="BN" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="button" /]

Hello Experts,
What is the best online payment service that we can integrate to our applications ?
we need to collect on regular basis from customers in remote areas...

What do you use for this cases ?
Regards

i am receiving the pay-pal Ipn response filecontent "invalid" suddenly . I have implement the further proceeding on the base of "Varified " and now it is return "Invalid" for me.How and what what i have to do . payment proceeding successfully in my account.  there is some really harmful for me if I proceed further functionality and ignore this Invalid status ? i have no Idea about this. please suggest me better way for deal this issue. Thanks In advance

I can not find equivalent vb code of c# for specific section of paypal payment.
I am working with paypal billing plan and agreement.
Redirect code in c# is

this.flow.RecordRedirectUrl("Redirect to PayPal to approve billing agreement...", link.href);

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but can not find its equivalent in vb.net.
Please help asap.