[nfbcs] Setting Up a Website to Accept Payments via PayPal

[Jim Barbour]

RTFM stands for "read the frickin' manual"  Mike is saying he's
pining away for good developer documentation.

Mike, Brian Buhrow knows something of paypal.  He set it up for
California a few years ago, though we don't use his set up any longer.

Jim

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:06:43PM -0700, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs wrote:
> but PayPal doesn't seem to have anything catering to a RTFM type like me.
> 
> What do you mean by this?
> 
> Nicole
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 5:03 PM
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> Subject: [nfbcs] Setting Up a Website to Accept Payments via PayPal
> 
> All:
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>  
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> There is growing interest within my affiliate to set up our affiliate
> website to accept payments via PayPal. I'll admit that I'm a bit
> old-fashioned about this sort of thing so am not terribly enthused at the
> prospect. I'm the webmaster so write my own code. My question is this:
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a narrative document somewhere that describes in detail the process
> for setting up one's website to accept PayPal, i.e., accept payments via
> credit cards, bank accounts and the like? I realize that PayPal says it
> makes things relatively simple by offering code to just plop down into one's
> own website code but, frankly, I'd like to know the requirements and process
> step-by-step ahead-of-time rather than learning by doing. I'm willing to do
> this after reading a detailed description but PayPal doesn't seem to have
> anything catering to a RTFM type like me.
> 
>  
> 
> Also, PayPal seems to have provision for separate web coding to process
> donations than it does for accepting payment for registration etc. Is this
> really necessary?
> 
>  
> 
> T I A.
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> 
> Mike Freeman
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