Payment in Access using PayPal?

[Fjordur]

Hi,
I'm investigating the possibilities of integrating payment with PayPal (or
any other system, for that matter) in an Access application.
Can't seem to find much info on this. Any info, experience or links
appreciated.
Thanks to all

 

[ChrisM]

Have you tried writing (emailing) to PayPal customer or technical support?

 

[Fjordur]

Have you tried writing (emailing) to PayPal customer or technical support?

Sure but 1) I'm interested in other solutions that may work if PPal doesn't
and 2) I've come not to expect too much responsiveness and accuracy from
support services

 

[ChrisM]

Sure but 1) I'm interested in other solutions that may work if PPal
doesn't
and 2) I've come not to expect too much responsiveness and accuracy from
support services

It's not something I've ever really investigated, but I would have thought
each payment system would require coding in it's own way. What exactly are
you trying to do? Make it so that someone can SEND a payment from your
application? I would imagine it will be difficult to actually interface with
PayPal through your program, have you considered just linking to the website
so that clicking the appropriate button will fire up a webbrowser set to
PayPal's website.
Who is the target for the application you are writing? Another thing to
consider is that some people (me included) would be a little worried about
handing my paypal details over to an application that I didn't trust 101%.
(eg anything like shareware that I had downloaded from the internet)

Having just written the above, a quick Google turned up this:
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_sdk-resource.html

Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

 

[Fjordur]

Thanks for the help, Chris,

They sent me not less than 3 automated reply emails in 12 hours, each
stating that my request will be processed. No answer in it yet...

It's not something I've ever really investigated, but I would have thought
each payment system would require coding in it's own way. What exactly are
you trying to do? Make it so that someone can SEND a payment from your
application?

Yes, AND send something that tells my app that a payment has occured.
My Access app is available on the web via GoGlobal products (fine product,
BTW). The idea is to help the user write a contract for a specific business.
The process, the way we see it, is
- user answers a few questions
- the application gives some advice (free) on the key points of the contract
- the application suggests to print the actual contract (or send it) againts
a small fee
- user pays
- then gets his contract printed / sent

I would imagine it will be difficult to actually interface with
PayPal through your program, have you considered just linking to the website
so that clicking the appropriate button will fire up a webbrowser set to
PayPal's website.

Sure, but then we need
- preferably to pre-fill some fields
- to get some feed-back from PPal to unlock the contract feature

Who is the target for the application you are writing? Another thing to
consider is that some people (me included) would be a little worried about
handing my paypal details over to an application that I didn't trust 101%.
(eg anything like shareware that I had downloaded from the internet)

Just the same as on any merchant web site, only this is Access. I'd be happy
to have a PayPal button like they have on web sites

Having just written the above, a quick Google turned up this:
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_sdk-resource.html
Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

I dunno. I did find these pages, too. The development tools seem to be
web-oriented as far as I understand, so I can't evaluate if I might be able
to use them to integrate payment functionalities in Access. For instance,
can I plan to integrate Java tools in Access?