‘Paypal and Paypal IPN’
Paypal IPN – How to Sell Digital Downloads
How to Sell Downloadable Products with Paypal IPN
I’ve been experimenting with Paypal IPN for some time now and I’ve had in the back of my mind that I wanted to put all the different tutorials I’d written together into one big explanation of what you need to do to sell downloadable products. When I tried this I realised there is just too much information for one tutorial.
So I’ve created a series. And despite my frog like voice I have decided to give video tutorials a go.
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Web Payment
There are many situations in which you might want to accept Web Payments. The most obvious being an online shop but there are others such as having a restricted area on your website for which payment is necessary. Also if you are selling a digital product then an ordinary website shop will often not meet your requirements.
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Adding an Advanced Paypal Buy Now Button
This tutorial explains in some detail what you can do to get the most from a Paypal Buy Now button. There are many options available to you and I include example code where possible. Paypal has some really good documentation on the subject so I have also included links to their site.
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Adding a more Complex Paypal Buy Now Button
Question: The “Buy Now” button was easier than I thought. What extra options are available.
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Adding a Really Simple Paypal Buy Now Button
Question: I want a really simple “Buy Now” button on my website. How do I do it.
Answer: Use Paypal Website Payments Standard. Its very easy to set up. The customer clicks a “Buy Now” button. They are taken to Paypal’s site where they enter their card details or pay from their paypal account if they have one. The money then appears in your paypal account.
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Paypal IPN
Instant Payment Notification is better known as Paypal IPN and is Paypal’s interface for handling real time confirmation of purchases.
A typical use for IPN is where you want a customer to pay for a software download but there can be more to it than that and the IPN interface provides a wealth of options some of which I will go through in this article.
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Paypal IPN: receiving instant payments in your web application.
This paypal ipn tutorial explains how to use Paypals IPN system with a simple single item purchase. Instant Payment Notification allows you to integrate your PayPal payments with your website’s back-end operations, so you get immediate notification and authentication of the PayPal payments you receive. The main use of IPN is where your website needs to know immediately that payment has been made. For example you might have sold something that you will then make available for the user to download.
There is a lot of information on the Paypal website which is worth looking at but the following paypal ipn example will show you in detail a real world example of how to use it.
