What PayPal features to use?
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Hi there,
I'm new to PayPal and am just trying to get some payment options setup. We have a website where the user can purchase "credits" for use on the website. That is our only purchasable item. So I use a "Buy Now" button where I dynamically set the price based on the quantity and then send them off to PayPal to process the money end of things. I setup and have working, IPN. However, when reading the documentation it says that you can't rely on IPN 100% and therefore you should implement another solution as well (but doesn't say what). So I wanted to implement PDT as a redundant payment notification method. When reading the documentation for PDT it says that it is not designed for use with credit card purchases and express checkout.
So what can I use? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Wes
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I don't have an answer to those questions, but i do have a concern.
Paypal doesn't offer any seller protection at all for virtual items and what you're selling is a virtual item.
Buyers could get their money back very easily.
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Hmmm...you know, I never thought of that. I'm going to have to talk to my boss about that. Thanks for bringing that up.
Wes

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