What PayPal features to use?

[wgraves]

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

[surplusdealdude]

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.

[wgraves]

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