Pro PayPal E-Commerce, Apress
Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio
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Peter Thiel and Max Levchin founded Confinity in 1999 which was destined to become PayPal. Paypal is a system for sending and receiving funds over the Web—serving as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. It went public in 2002 only to be snapped up by eBay.
There are many ins and outs both to doing secure e-commerce over the Internet and, specifically, in doing business via PayPal. This book attempts to provide all the information you need to do both; and, it succeeds admirably. In fact, you could gather most of the information yourself from Web sources. However, the author has saved us all the time and bother of assembling the various resources, consolidating them, verifying them, and making them readable and understandable. PayPal is a bigger topic than most would realize at first brush. Actually, one can be certified in PayPal.
The ideal reader for this book is a corporate manager, e-commerce developer, or small business person in search of an overall understanding of PayPal transaction processing solutions. The book helps sort through the various options and select a development path. Probably, every reader will want to read the first nine chapters. After that, each reader will pursue their own interests in the following chapters.
This book is designed to help the reader choose and implement a secure, PayPal solution to a variety of merchant problems. And, it is packed with practical suggestions and source code samples. The book is comprehensive in that it covers the array of solutions offered by PayPal and its acquisitions over the years including the latest Name-Value Pair Interface (NVI) API.
Developers will find the information they need on all available PayPal payments options from the PayPal account, basic and encrypted Web site payments, the PayPal API, postpayment processsing. Also covered in detail are Instant Payment Notification (IPN), Payflow Link and Payflow Pro, Payment Data Transfer (PDT), and SOAP.
The author's style is very knowledgeable but matter-of-fact. He works for PayPal and he is a certified Java developer. His style is very readable and concise. Of course, his basic perspective is that of a Java developer; but, he provides examples in any language a would-be merchant is likely to use.
Most source code examples are available in the C#, Java, PHP, and Visual Basic (VB) languages. This is both a strength and a weakness for the book.
Bottom line
Pro PayPal E-Commerce is a comprehensive guide and reference to conducting e-commerce using PayPal payment processing methods.
Publisher's description
Pro PayPal E-Commerce contains the most comprehensive collection of information on the latest PayPal technologies available. It takes the approach of PayPal as a digital money platform, and shows how it's a dynamic service that offers far more than just payment processing.
With its breadth of technologies and APIs, the PayPal platform is a basis for development and innovation for an unlimited number of possibilities. It offers a wide range of payment technologies, but it's not always easy to decipher which technology is the best choice for a web site. This book gets under the hood to show you how the different technologies work, how to choose the right solution, and how to implement the solution--complete with real-world PayPal success stories.
You'll learn how to integrate PayPal directly into web sites to make use of its payment technologies. This allows you, no matter what language you program in, to build shopping carts or similar channel products with PayPal as a payment option. You can also use this book to learn about the basics of e-commerce, where PayPal fits in, and how you can meet your own e-commerce needs. This book covers
- How PayPal works
- Using the PayPal API
- Website Payments Standard
- Website Payments Pro
- Instant Payment Notification
- Payment Data Transfer
- Encrypted Website Payments
- Administration
- Reporting
- Fraud protection
- Payflow Gateway
About the author(s)
Damon Williams has worked at PayPal since 2004, where he has specialized in making life easier for people trying to integrate PayPal into web sites and applications. His background is in software engineering, community building, and content publishing. He is a certified Java developer with over seven years of experience, and he also spent five years as the publisher of Feedback Magazine in Austin, Texas. His current position is managing the PayPal Developer Network, where he is building an online community for innovation and support on the PayPal commerce platform.
Table of Contents (abbreviated)
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to PayPal
- CHAPTER 2 The PayPal Account
- CHAPTER 3 Basic Website Payments
- CHAPTER 4 Encrypted Website Payments
- CHAPTER 5 Postpayment Processing
- CHAPTER 6 The PayPal API
- CHAPTER 7 Payflow Gateway
- CHAPTER 8 Reporting
- CHAPTER 9 Managing Online Disputes
- APPENDIX PayPal Reference
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