Re: accepting payments from email

[Stroller <..hidden..>]

On 12 Jun 2009, at 02:59, Schmiechen wrote:

> Is anyone interested in setting up a invoice email template for  
> accepting
> payments on invoices via paypal merchant services? Or writing a how  
> to? Or
> chipping in on the cost of writing one.
> I have been looking over paypal.pl and the old sql-ledger shopping  
> cart code.
> We cant take payments on sales orders just invoices. Not to mention  
> our
> customers dont need a shopping cart.
> Paypal has a email invoices thing for outlook and qb I was thinking  
> something
> along those lines.

Am not familiar with the email invoices thing for outlook, but it  
should be straight-forward to change the HTML email invoice (or even  
the PDF one??) to include a PayPal link.

Using the PayPal "button creator" I get this link for requesting a  
payment:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=foo%40bar%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=Invoice%201234&amount=99%2e99&currency_code=USD&button_subtype=products&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF%3abtn_buynowCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest

<https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=foo%40bar%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=Invoice%201234&amount=99%2e99&currency_code=USD&button_subtype=products&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF%3abtn_buynowCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest 
>

This is for a payment of $99.99 to ..hidden.. (your address) against  
invoice 1234.

It _should_ be easy to have LedgerSMB insert the appropriate amount &  
invoice number, and create a URL from the invoice template.

Of course, this doesn't mark the payment as made on your LedgerSMB  
system, but that is probably a bunch more complicated.

Stroller.