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[ic] Status of Paypal Intergration
At 10:30 PM 4/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Beating on a dead horse... (about Paypal.com integration).
>
>I'm finally ready to start implementing! Thank you Dan Browning for
>pointing out that you can't install to two servers simultaneously. At
>least this is part of what I derived from our conversation and you were a
>life saver. Without this tip, I could have been pulling my hair out for
>ANOTHER two months... Please correct me if I'm wrong but I found
>bin/makecat to work MUCH better when you're not trying to force the
>catalog to install to a separate secure server.
>
>Anyhow, now that I'm starting setup, I discover that there are six payment
>options standard in the system. Unfortunately, my favorite option,
>PAYPAL.COM is not one of those. Exercising due diligence, I have searched
>the archives for approximately one hour but have not come across a
>solution. Found a lot of folks asking the question in the fall of 2001,
>and a couple of promises, but did not find a message that implied a
>solution has been found.
>
>So... what is the status on the Paypal Intergration? I have
>traditionally accepted lots of credit card payment types, as long as they
>come through paypal.com. Perhaps I should be looking at other options
>that don't require membership or is a Paypal.com option available and I
>just haven't seen it.
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Andrew Lietzow
>Member of the GNU generation
>The ACL Group, Inc.
My understanding is that, as of tomorrow, PayPal will no longer be able to
process Mastercard transactions, along with thousands of other third-party
processors (known collectively as 'aggregators'). That is a big blow to
Paypal's viability as payment processing solution. Unless you know
something I don't, I suggest you bite the bullet and get a 'conventional'
gateway/merchant account setup. That is what I have done.
- Ed L.
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