Hello everyone. I own a company that is building a Crowdfunding application based on these PayPal Guidelines:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/lifecycle/crowdfunding/
We want to make sure we get everything right before we start coding the integration so we have a better chance of getting approved for a live App ID.
The Guidlines page that PayPal provides is vauge in some ares so my development team Project Manager has outlined a few questions that I was hoping someone could help me with! Trying to get phone support is proving to be impossible.
Here are the questions:
Points for Paypal:
- Best Practices – “Limit the number of fundraising campaigns an organization can host in any given year.” – is it a compulsion or suggestion? Can our implementation get rejected by PayPal if this practice is not followed / implemented?
- Best Practices – “Set reasonable time limits for fundraising campaigns. For example, 90 days or less.” - is it a compulsion or suggestion? Can our implementation get rejected by PayPal if this practice is not followed / implemented?
- It is mentioned – “Your platform reviews the project. If the platform approves the project,”; we request to have bit clarification on this. i.e. is it expected to have MANUAL review compulsorily for the project before it can be contributed by any user? Or is it acceptable that we build programmatic logic to check conditions to automate this step? If programmatic – are there any must-to-follow conditions to be checked, please advise.
- Setting up chained payments correctly. Per https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/lifecycle/crowdfunding/ the sequence is – “
- If the platform approves the project, it collects the project owner's PayPal account information through their Log In with PayPal (formerly PayPal Access) account. If the flow is through a chained payment, the primary receiver is set to the project owner. This makes the main fund the receiving account when the preapproval transactions are collected upon the successful completion of an event.
- After the PayPal accounts are set, the platform can launch the project by posing to their website the details, time period, and target amount of the crowdfunding event.
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While per https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/ht_ap-basicChainedPaym... the sequence is – “Step 1: Set Up the Payment - When a customer is ready to check out, use the Pay call to set up the chained payment.”
Given above 2 different practice documentation, we request to have clarity on correct sequence to be followed.
- Do we need to perform any PayPal action when a project is created in system? If yes, please provide details.
- Is it sufficient to make Pay call as very first step of pledge process followed by redirection and collecting successful payment details?
