PayPal Guest Payment Module - PayPal Total

[Katmatcreations]

Hi All,

Im currently building a PayPal module to allow Guest Payments, This means that a customer will be able to purchase using a credit card or debit card without a PayPal Account all in one nice looking Ajax screen (with your shop logo on the top of the screen). There is an option for regular "Login with paypal" or "Guest payments" (Customer doesnt need a PayPal Account).

Originally this module was going to need SSL setup and you would need Approval from PayPal to use it however after some talks with some friends at PayPal ive redesigned it to make it easier for it to be setup and used very quickly with no need to mess around with API keys and strings.

Added a refund option, Prestashop will be able to issue a refund back to the customer if they have paid with PayPal Total (via the admin area).

Updated 22nd Sept

[Katmatcreations]

Geeze Prestashop its nice to see you havent done a thing with the PayPal Modules in well over a year, the code is still terrible!

I guess if PayPal was a French company it might be a different story huh?

[Katmatcreations]

Updated: Ive redesigned it so that you dont need SSL for this to work and there wont need to be any approval process!

[bambi]

Hi Katmatcreations,

Can you please explain what can your PayPal module do that the exsisting PayPal module can't do. I am now charging customers that don't have a PayPal account. They pay with thier credit card. The only problem is that they are first led to a PayPal payment page and only down the page there is a little link to the creditcard features

Cheers

Dan

[Katmatcreations]

The PayPal Total Module im developing doesnt use the standard PayPal APIs so the user doesnt have to click in a seperate area to the go to another screen in order to fill out details, the login with paypal and the credit card/debit card screen is all contained within the one paypal landing page unlike the standard version.

Also because of the way the module is designed all you need is a PayPal Total username and password , (so no need to mess around with API keys and what not). It uses all the benefits of having 128 bit SSL without it actually being set up.

Attached is an example of the PayPal landing screen.

but yes you are right you can use the credit card checkout facility on the left side of the cart page which then takes the user to a brand new paypal page (as if the poor user hasnt already clicked 5 prestashop screens)

[rocky]

Thanks for working on this. It would be good to have a module where customers who don't have a PayPal account could still pay by credit card.

[Katmatcreations]

Updated: im sorting out ECHECK (Electronic check) once and for all as part of this as well, its never been supported by Prestashop (until now).

[bambi]

Hi Hi Katmatcreations,

I am using a PayPal module that passes PayPal fees to the customer.

See: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/21167/third_party_modules/module_update_paypal_v1_dot_6_from_1_dot_12beta_with_paypal_fees_passed_on_to_customer

It would be an advantage if you could have this feture in your upgraded PayPal module.

Chees

Dan

[Katmatcreations]

Hi Hi Katmatcreations,

I am using a PayPal module that passes PayPal fees to the customer.

See: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/21167/third_party_modules/module_update_paypal_v1_dot_6_from_1_dot_12beta_with_paypal_fees_passed_on_to_customer

It would be an advantage if you could have this feture in your upgraded PayPal module.

Chees

Dan

Hi Dan,

Got it built in and you will be able to turn it on and off from the module config screen.

[bambi]

Hi Katmatcreations,

Great, when will your module be available?

Cheers

Dan

[Katmatcreations]

Depends on PayPal because i need to get Approval from them before i can launch it (Which shouldnt be a problem ive got a few contacts in the approvals area).

Estimate it will be about 2 or 3 weeks though.

[bambi]

OK, I will follow this thread for information.

Cheers

Dan

[Katmatcreations]

Just added an update, ive built a way for a refund to be issued when you do a refund for a customer that paid via PayPal Total, all via the prestashop admin login so you dont have to visit paypal to issue the refund.

[Katmatcreations]

PayPal has just announced that Website Payment Standard will be getting the new interface ive got a screenshot above as standard starting November 1st.

That means part of the functionality i was building into this will be outdated in a few months (dammit). However things like Prestashop and PayPal intergrated refunds that i have built in will still be unique to this module.