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I have been using PayPal for almost 20 years to power and process my recurring subscription website. PayPal has kept raised the processing fee. Does this help PayPal stock? No, PayPal stock has crashed many time because PayPal continues to raise it fee. I have switched credit processing to Stripe and many others do the same. PayPal is going to continue to lose its customers if you don’t reduce the fee. I have even considered to disable my customers to use their PayPal account to do purchases, and force my customers to use credit card, which is then processed by Stripe at much less fee. PayPal, you have competitors, your stock will go to $30 if you don’t return your over charge. ... View more

My html form is like below:     <form action='https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr' method='POST'> <input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_s-xclick'> <input type='submit' value='Continue &gt;&gt;'> <input type='hidden' name='encrypted' value='-----BEGIN PKCS7----- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----END PKCS7----- '> </form>     Inside the encrypted data, I set rm='2'.   When I turn off auto return from my seller account, buyer clicks the return button after successful payment, the return url has all POST payment data.   When I turn on auto return from my seller account, the return url has empty data. No POST are sent to me.   This happens on both sandbox and live   What do I do wrong? ... View more

Hi,   I need to set up a recurring plan for customers with free trial, it won't work. I have to charge $0.01 for the initial payment for it to work. What do I do wrong?   When I give $setupFee = 0, it returns error message as below: {"name":"CC_DECLINED","message":"This transaction cannot be processed.","information_link":"https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/payments.billing-agreements#errors","debug_id":"e2f39a27a5dd"}   If I give $setupFee = 0.01, it works!   Below is how I create the MerchantPreferences.   $merchantPreferences = new PayPal\Api\MerchantPreferences(); $merchantPreferences->setReturnUrl( $returnUrl ) ->setCancelUrl( $cancelUrl ) ->setAutoBillAmount( "yes" ) ->setInitialFailAmountAction( "CONTINUE" ) ->setMaxFailAttempts( "3" ) ->setSetupFee( new PpCurrency( array( 'value' => $setupFee, 'currency' => 'USD' ) ) );     ... View more

I had been using merchant-sdk-php to power my subscription website, where users can choose to sign up using their existing paypal account, or using their credit card. We offer 14 days free trial. Users can update their credit card when the old card expires, users can change subscription plan, etc.. These are all good for many years by simply updating the existing subscription profile (no need to cancel and re-create a new one).   Now I try to switch to paypal rest api (php). (It apears rest is newer and better?) I found there are several problems: 1. I can't do free trial. I must charge at least $0.01, otherwise it got denied. 2. I can't update anything, not credit card, not subscription plan, etc. I can suspend, reactivate, or cancel a subscription though.   Here is my test code to change only description and it doesn't work. Please help if I do anything wrong? Many thanks   [code] // $subscr_id ( = $agreement->getId() ) is saved in my database when it was created. It is the lookup key for all later transactions $agreement = Agreement::get( $subscr_id, $apiContext );   $patch = new Patch; $patch->setOp( "replace" )     ->setPath( '/' )     ->setValue( json_decode( '{ "description": "New Description", }' ) );   $pathRequest = new PatchRequest; $pathRequest->addPatch( $patch ); $agreement->update( $pathRequest, $apiContext ); [/code] ... View more