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#.

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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.

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