PayPal integration

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Christopher Abel

November 04, 2016 12:04

Dear Spreedly, 

 

I've read the details on your offsite payments page. But I'm not clear on how your service integrates with PayPal.

https://docs.spreedly.com/guides/offsite-payments/

 

Am I understanding correctly that you only support card payments through PayPal? 

The only way to initiate a PayPal payment is to submit (POST) credit card details in a html form directly to https://core.spreedly.com/v1/payment_methods?

 

Does this mean a customer can't choose to pay with their payment method from within their PayPal account? A PayPal customer can have several different payment methods setup in their PayPal account, eg: bank account direct debit linked to their PayPal account.

Part of the motivation for supporting PayPal payments, is that customers can use their existing payment methods in their PayPal account, without having to enter their card details again.

 

Perhaps I'm not understanding your documentation correctly. 

Please can you clarify this for me. 

 

Thanks, 

Chris

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  Permanently deleted user November 04, 2016 14:02 (Edited November 04, 2016 14:02)

  Hi Chris,

  Offsite payments and a Paypal gateway are two different entities. Have you also viewed our Paypal gateway guide: https://docs.spreedly.com/payment-gateways/paypal/

  Using the offsite flow would allow you to offer Paypal as a payment method, so whichever method a customer has linked in their Paypal account should be available for use in that flow.

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  Christopher Abel November 04, 2016 14:35

  Hi Brianne, 

  Thanks for getting back to me. So my question is basically related to the off-site payment flow.

  What is not clear in your documentation is whether an offsite payment can be initiated without requiring the user to enter their card details. 

  I'm referencing your off-site payments guide here: https://docs.spreedly.com/guides/offsite-payments/

  The example on this page shows a payment HTML form being POST'ed to a spreedly endpoint. The form contains credit card fields, and I'm not clear on why this is necessary?

  https://docs.spreedly.com/guides/offsite-payments/#payment-form

  My confusion is that the normal flow of an off-site payment is that the user selects the preferred payment method after they arrive at the off-site payment provider.

  Does this form need to be a HTML form? Or can it be a direct API request?

  The rest of the off-site flow is easy to follow, and the API methods are well documented. 

  Thanks, 

  Chris

   

   

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  Christopher Abel November 04, 2016 17:33

  Hi Brianne,

  I'm just following up on my original question..

  Through trial and error I've established that the credit card payment fields are not required to initiate an off-site payment.

  The documentation was very misleading on this, and I my integration process would've been much smoother if this was explained in more detail.

  Thanks, 

  Chris

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  Permanently deleted user November 04, 2016 18:03

  Hi Chris,

  You are correct that the credit card payment fields are not required to initiate an off-site payment. Based on the current documentation, would you please let me know what changes you would suggest to make it more clear for future customers?

  Thank you so much,

  Brianne

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  Christopher Abel November 10, 2016 10:30

  Hi Brianne, 

  I think some more detail on the form that initiates an offsite payment would be particularly useful. In particular which fields are optional, and which fields are required.

  As all other actions can be made through the API, an explanation of why a HTML form POST is required for this single action.

  Thanks, 

  Chris

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