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I charge my customers through PayPal, but recently faced a fraud which previously had only heard about. Somebody registered a few accounts, paid online with paypal (as my service is only prepaid) and started making expensive long distance calls. In fact the IP registering the accounts was from Florida, and IPs making calls were from Africa. After about 20 minutes the first payment was reversed.

I am currently developing an application in which two users exchange goods and money in an escrow like environment. Buyer has some money and wants an item that Seller has. Buyer does not want to pay Seller until Seller ships the item. I am unsure of how to best handle the payment part of my application. Buyer''s money eventually has to end up at Seller and my company would like to

Hi, I am integrating paypal service in my application using Activemerchant. Now I want to know how to use ActiveMerchant to make payment to Bank or Credit card ? for example: I am seller and I want to pay some amount to somebody. I want to pay such amount which will be credited in somebody''s bank account or credit card directly ? Please reply me as early as possible. And also suggest

Hi All, I want to convert a video file which is located at the Amazon-S3 Store, through ffmpeg. How can it b possible? please help me if anyone have any idea. for ex:- is it possible to execute following command:- system "ffmpeg -i

Does anyone have any experience with subscriptions and PayPal? I''m currently weighing up the options of what payment system to use for an upcoming project which is subscription based and am not sure if PayPal is capable of doing what I want and if I need to setup a merchant account instead. Basically it''s the same kind of payment structure as BaseCamp. 3 or 4 accounts which

Richard, My name is Ron Coleman, a business development manager at EC Suite. We specialize in on-line transaction processing and provide an an inclusive e-commerce toolset designed to reduce the cost of processing and marketing while you focus the managing of your business. Our subscription billing service allows for flexible pricing options and multiple payment types. You can create, cancel, and

Hi I want to implement paypal chained payment with adaptive payments API. I am totally new to paypal. Kindly guide me to start with. I have heard of gem active merchant. Can I use that for the purpose? Or any other gems? Also please point me to any examples describing adaptive payment with chained payment using rails. My rails version is 2.3.8 Thanks in advance -- Posted via

Hi All, I have 2 tables 1] user_infos & 2] users class UserInfo has_one :user validates_presence_of :city class User belongs_to :user_info validates_presence_of :first_name i write following code in my create method. @user_info = UserInfo.new(params[:user_info]) @user=@user_info.build_user(:first_name=>'''') if @user_info.save else end now what i want is to

Hi, i''ve to do a little site which need the paypal''s subscription feature. How can implement it with rails? is there any plugin to do this? I need that every month the payment has been taken, tell the system that has been successfully done and then do something else depending on the payment. I''ve seen active merchant which permit paypal payments, but what about

Hi All, Has anyone implemented a credit card processing / merchant account system using Rails? I know that there is a ''payment'' gem that is supposed to integrate with the Authorize.net gateway, but I''m wondering if that is the best (and only) solution out there. Are there any other recommended solutions from Rails programmers out there? Thanks in advance for the

I''m running Rails 1.1.2, and using version 1.9.0 of the paypal gem. When I make unencrypted paypal forms, they work just fine, I get the IPN notification from the sandbox and everything is wonderful. When I try to encrypt the form though, all I get is the error message "We were unable to authorize the transaction. Please contact your merchant.", which is ... unhelpful.

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Has anyone any experience of getting the Paypal plug in to work? I''ve set myself up on the Paypal sandbox, I''ve setup my sending and receiving accounts, i''ve got the Paypal button on my view, I can go and make payments ok, but I can''t get the Instant Payment Notification part to work. At the end of the payment process the user is left in a paypal screen

I''m about to dive into a revamp of the payment processing engine for a my company''s software application service. I came across a tool called Service Merchant (http://servicemerchant.org), and it looks like it could be a good fit for me, especially since we do recurring monthly subscription billing. Has anyone tried using it? Liked it? Any suggestions or comments? George

Anyone used both? Im looking into the pros and cons of there two Payment of course supports more than just credit cards One query that comes to mind is why doesn''t active_merchant just use payment Would keep things nice and dry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello everyone I am using paypal-express gem for Payapl payment. I am using reference transaction method to get money from Paypal. But i am getting IPN i.e payment notification, I mentioned like payment_request = Paypal::Payment::Request.new( :currency_code => :USD, :amount => 10.00, :billing_type => :MerchantInitiatedBilling,

Is there anyone out there who has managed to get Paypal immediate payment notificiations to work with the Paypal plugin? I can get as far as making the payment in the sandbox, but can''t get any acknowledgement back to confirm the payment was made. I''m confised as to how Paypal will know where to send the acknowledgement as I''ve not supplied my IP address or anything

I wanted to know if anyone had any good experiences with particular payment gateways and Rails? and what did it take to integrate? My current client uses PayPal for the credit card payment processing, and would like to stay with them, if possible. So has anyone had any experiences with integrating with PayPal? I''d love to hear who provides your payment services? -- Posted via

Hi, following the discussion about Paypal''s IPN usage with leetsoft''s paypal library, I''ve posted an addition to that library so you can use Paypal''s Payment Data Transfer. It''s largely inspired by, with some chinks even simply copied from, the IPN code. Downloadable at http://www.myowndb.com/files/payment_data.rb I blogged about it at

Having some problems. Using instant rails 1.3 updated with to rails 1.1.4. Gem Paypal and Money gems are installed. Also installed the plugin paypal, I see it in /vendor/plugins/paypal and restarted the server. I posted my error at the bottom. Any Ideas? Thanks Kindly -Ryan # I have a controller called byc, in it I have this action. def create @registrant =