A common mistake, that happened to me also, is to start at once with the PayPal API and Express Checkout.

I'll go over most of the stuff that book covers, but in a more brief and concise manner.įirst and foremost - understanding what kinds of integration PayPal offers is, I would say, the most important thing in order to successfully start your development journey. For those who are not so eager to pay – don’t worry, that’s why this article is here. To those who really want to get into PayPal, and are willing to shell out some buck, I would recommend the Pro PayPal E-Commerce book - that’s how I eventually got into understanding the concepts behind PayPal integration. And if you have any questions regarding this topic - feel free to leave comment, I'll try to help.

Right now, for every client I am working with I request that they sign waiver if they require me to do PayPal integration. What if company had recurring payments on the account? What if company needs to issue refunds to customers for something? What if you were using PayPal not only for accepting payments but for sending money and paying contractors? I mean they are basically signing death sentances to businesses. If you withdrew money from PayPal to bank and won't cooparate - they are vurnerable.īut I have no idea how PayPal operations team makes jump from that to we are completely shutting down your account - DEAL WITH IT. If people start requesting refunds they need to have option of paying that money back. If PayPal is processing credit cards for purchases on your site and suddenly traffic picks up, they are exposed. Now, I am all for companies protecting themselves.

Paypal just froze over $70,000 in my account - Say they won't return it for 180 days.

Paypal freezes $750,000 in Minecraft developer account.

Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan.

Here are few well documented horror stories where people had large amounts of money blocked for most curious reasons: Now it seems that most sane people left PayPal and when you get account blocked nobody will take time to openly talk with you. I have personally experienced this on several projects, where well funded, legit startups I advised got their PayPal account frozen.įew years ago (before 2012) you could at least talk with decision makers and get account unblocked using common sense.

And when that happens there is no one to talk to. Basically the issue with PayPal is that your funds can be frozen at any point of time without any solid reason. Most importantly - PayPal customer support right now is worse than it ever was. While integrations described here will still work in most cases, PayPal technology and dev support have been steadily declining during last few years. I've wrote this article almost 8 years ago.

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