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Chris455 · ‎Mar-14-2022

How do you search for a subscription by email address?

Chris455 · ‎Sep-06-2021

How do you get immediately confirmation after someone submits a payment to you via the Javascript Paypal button? I'm using the "paypal.Buttons()" Javascript to render a button to purchase a subscription. By default, this creates a popup that allows the user to submit a payment. It doesn't appear to provide any feedback or callback that my own site can use to acknowledge receipt of payment. Therefore, I'm using the REST API to poll for payments, and activate subscriptions once it see the payment. Unfortunately, Paypal's RESt API is so slow and inefficient that it can take 6 hours for transactions to appear via the API. Is there any way to use the paypal.Buttons() Javascript to get it to redirect the user to a specific custom "success" or call a Javascript function on the origin page after the payment successfully completes? That way I can trigger my own custom logic immediately, and not leave my customers waiting for hours.

Chris455 · ‎Mar-21-2021

No, it's still happening for me. The Web UI updates instanteously but the API data is hours behind. It's very frustrating. It seems like it's just a design flaw in Paypal's backend that they're not interested in fixing. They focus mainly on frontend users, and customers using their API for business aren't their target market, so they'll probably never fix the problem. I've been researching alternative services.

Chris455 · ‎Jul-25-2020

Yep, seeing the same problem. It looks like Paypal's just dropping the ball, and since they're effectively a monopoly, they're not concerned about fixing it, because what are you going to do? Switch to Venmo, which is also owned by Paypal? This is really frustrating, because I upgraded to a business account so I could plug in a script to their API and process customer payments, but it looks like it takes, on average, about 6 hours for transactions to show up in the API. Turns out customers reeeeally don't like waiting 6 hours to get a payment confirmation, and I can't blame them. This is all especially weird because transactions are instantly visible on the webpage. So not only is Paypal now taking a huge cut of all my payments, but I'm they're giving me a worthless API in return. I'm going to have to write my own interface that scrapes Paypal's website just to read transactions.

Chris455 · ‎Jul-24-2020

Is there a delay between when transactions become available in the https://api.paypal.com/v1/reporting/transactions API? I'm trying to create a subscription processor that looks for specific transaction payments and then updates an account database. So far, I'm able to access the API and read all transactions that are over 24 hours old, but the ones made under 24 hours don't show up. This is very frustrating, and makes Paypal's API must less useful for real work. I'd like to create a near real-time account update, but if I have to wait for 24 hours, that's not going to work. Am I missing something here? Why is Paypal's website showing recent data, but their API is a day stale? The API docs (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/) say "It takes a maximum of three hours for executed transactions to appear in the list transactions call", but it's been well over 3 hours and transactions still aren't appearing.

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