8 Online Payment Options That Aren’t PayPal

When most people think of online payments, one name comes to mind: PayPal. But for all PayPal’s strengths, it’s a bad idea to rely on it as the single system to accept payments on your site. Monopolies are never healthy, and you need to diversify your payment channels. Why You Need PayPal Alternatives There are plenty of reasons why you should support multiple payment options, but here are several of the most important ones: Your partners or customers can’t always make or accept PayPal payments. This is the major reason to offer payment alternatives. There are always people who can’t … Continue reading 8 Online Payment Options That Aren’t PayPal

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How to Set Up PayPal Integration with PHP & MySQL

PayPal is the most popular payment service on the web so being able to integrate your website with PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification Service (IPN) is essential if you need to process payments through your website. There are 3 main parts to the PayPal IPN system. A webpage that initiates a request to PayPal to make a payment. A PHP page on your webserver that PayPal calls to notify you that payment has been made. A webpage that confirms the above payment and continues on to the next phase of your web application, such as a ‘Thank You’ page. Parts 1 … Continue reading How to Set Up PayPal Integration with PHP & MySQL

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How to Setup Recurring Payments

It’s likely that, at some point, you’ll want to implement recurring or subscription payments for a SaaS or other service. Thankfully, PayPal offers the tools we need to implement a fully integrated subscription payment solution.   What We’ll Build Note: I’m using Laravel in this tutorial, but you can apply these concepts to other languages and frameworks. We’ll setup PayPal to accept subscription payments and configure our instant payment notification (IPN) listener. Once we complete the sign-up component, we’ll look at the cancellation process via PayPal’s API. I’m starting with a barebones Laravel app with simple registration and login, and … Continue reading How to Setup Recurring Payments

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