Integrating PayPal into E-Commerce Applications with ASP.NET
E-commerce applications require user-friendly mechanisms for payment. Although e-commerce sites usually use full credit card processing gateways, offering PayPal for payment provides an option for those who don't want to send credit card information across the Internet.
by Rick Strahl
October 13, 2005
f you run a Web shop that uses direct credit card processing and you want to integrate PayPal, you'll find that using PayPal as a processing service is not as straightforward as using a payment gateway. In this article, I'll describe how you can minimize the external PayPal interaction and work the PayPal payment into your order processing workflow to provide a seamless interface using ASP.NET and C#.
Payment processing on the Web is a big industry and there are myriad services and providers allowing you to process credit cards and bank cards over Internet connections. If you're running your own e-commerce applications, you generally want to use an API so the payment processing can be directly integrated into your own application. This makes sure that the user of your application sees a consistent Web interface. As far as the user is concerned, they never leave your site; your Web back end makes the remote calls against the payment processing service and returns the success or failure of the request.
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f you run a Web shop that uses direct credit card processing and you want to integrate PayPal, you'll find that using PayPal as a processing service is not as straightforward as using a payment gateway. In this article, I'll describe how you can minimize the external PayPal interaction and work the PayPal payment into your order processing workflow to provide a seamless interface using ASP.NET and C#.
