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I'm a one man photography business who writes and maintains my own web site which uses NVP and PayPal Express as the checkout. There is no other ecommerce platform involved. Today PayPal is nagging me for the nth time in many years to move my NVP/SOAP web site to REST. I've lost count of the number of times that I've followed the links and found absolutely no helpful information that helps ME to do this. I just looked at the "integration video" and in the first few minutes the presenter uses at least ten terms that I have no idea about. All the help is in developer speak and does not help small business users at all.   I learnt to use the NVP method about twenty years ago, and my web site still works fine. I've no need to spend heaven knows how many hours learning a new technology for PayPals benefit. My web site is written in PHP and from there generates millions of NVP forms for my photographic archive on the fly. I cannot find any simple instruction that says "replace your form code with this REST code" so I give up each time and get on with my life. I've now reached the point where if PayPal stop the NVP method working, then I'll kill the web site.   So, simple question, when do PayPal expect to stop us from using NVP? ... View more

I see PayPal in the USA have launched a version of the Here app (yes, specifically the Here app!) for Windows Phone. Can we expect it in the UK and in what timescale? ... View more