Re: PayPal Integration

[Luke <..hidden..>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, John Locke wrote:

> I've got a similar idea that might share a solution: a custom payment link.
>
> We currently accept payments through Ubercart on our web site. I've set
> up an invoice product there, with fields for amount and invoice number.

That is one of the user-driven methods I am deploying on our site now as 
well, although probably using either Payments API and Drupal invoices, or 
a similar module.
However, doing it your way might make it easier to migrate to UC when the 
back office process supports individual products - thanks for the idea.

 > I can construct a link that adds the product to the 
> user's cart with
> appropriate values and takes them straight to checkout.
>
> I'm sure you can do the same with Paypal -- construct a payment link.

Yes, although my idea was going from the other direction.  Many of my 
customers (probably 70%) who use PayPal, prefer that we create money 
requests for them.  So my thinking was that from the LSMB side, being to 
have a link on an invoice (or as you say, aging/outstanding report), which 
automatically does that based upon the LSMB invoice, would save quite a 
bit of time.

Your user-driven method might be a close second in usefulness, 
however--perhaps a field added to emailed invoices, providing a link to a 
PayPal payment form for that invoice?  That deserves some thought.
(In the body of the email, not the actual PDF invoice)

 > What would be highly useful is to have some sort of link builder
> available in LSMB, to auto-generate a payment link using rules specified
> by an admin... I see wanting to do this from both individual invoices as
> well as AR -> Aging.
>
> Hmm. Maybe simplest place for now is to add to the statement.html that
> gets generated from the aging report...

I need to track down the PayPal link/button generation code.

This seems doable.  Not exactly what I had in mind, but far quicker to 
implement most likely.

Luke