Suma Plugin » PayPal http://www.sumaplugin.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:51:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Comparison of Payment Modules http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/532 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/532#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:26:40 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=532 There are currently three different Payment Modules available to use with Suma. The following compares their similarities and differences. More Payment Modules based on other popular Payment Processors are due out soon.

No module Donation module Hosted Payment module Onsite Payment module
Enables Suma to Accept Money from Users: no yes yes yes
Suma generates necessary forms for Users: - yes yes yes
Suma generates necessary buttons for Users: - yes
(Donate)		 yes
(Subscribe Now)		 yes
(Subscribe Now)
Can be used with Guest Plans: - yes no no
Can be used with Paid Plans: - no yes yes
User can pay with Credit/Debit card: - yes yes yes
User makes payment: - offsite offsite offsite or onsite
User requires a
PayPal account:		 - no no no
User must open a
PayPal account:		 - no yes¹ no
Type of PayPal account required for website: - Business or Premiere Business or Premiere Website Payments Pro (US)
with Recurring Payments
Website required to be PCI compliant²: - no no yes

¹ Ordinarily PayPal does not require a User to open a PayPal account when using Express Checkout, however the exception is when its for a subscription.

² Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are network security and business practice guidelines adopted by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, and JCB to establish a “minimum security standard” to protect customer’s payment card information. It’s a requirement for all merchants that store, transmit, or process payment card information.  Read more from PayPal on PCI compliance.

Links to PayPal to apply for Business or Premiere account and apply for Website Payments Pro (US) account .

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]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/532/feed 0 Setting: PayPal Sandbox Authentication Token http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/58 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/58#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:49:57 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=58 The Authentication Token (also called the Secure Merchant Account ID) is a random string of characters that uniquely identifies your PayPal account.

It is located in the Profile section of your PayPal account.

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]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/58/feed 0 Setting: PayPal Sandbox API Credentials http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/56 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/56#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:49:04 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=56 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/56/feed 0 Setting: Using HTTPS protocol in Test Mode http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/54 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/54#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:48:12 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=54 If enabled, this will setting will have Suma use the HTTPS protocol during the registration process when it would in Production mode.By disabling this setting your webserver does not need to have an SSL certificate installed when performing those registration steps that may receive (test) credit card information.  This is convenient if your test environment is a different domain or host from your production environment and doesn’t have its own dedicated SSL certificate.

]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/54/feed 0 Setting: PayPal Recurring Payments Feature http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/52 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/52#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:46:34 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=52 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/52/feed 0 Licensed Feature: Donations Service via PayPal http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/50 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/50#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:45:21 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=50 The Donations feature allows you to offer new users the opportunity of leaving a donation during their registration to your site.  This opportunity is only presented to users who have selected a Guest Subscription plan.

Users are presented with the following step when the Donations feature is active and the user selected a Guest Plan.

A demonstration of this is also included in the Payment Module screencast.

This feature of Suma requires a license (which can be purchased from the Suma Shop) in order to use it with the general public.  But if you want to try it out for yourself in your own website (which has Suma installed) then simply enable the Donations Feature in Test Mode.  This setting is found on the Suma-PayPal settings page in Wordpress’ Dashboard area under Settings.

When you enable this feature you will need to supply your PayPal Authentication Token (See Setting: PayPal Authentication Token ).

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]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/50/feed 0 Setting: PayPal Production Authentication Token http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/48 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/48#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:44:04 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=48 Authentication Token

]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/48/feed 0 Setting: PayPal Production API Credentials http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/45 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/45#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:41:32 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=45 API Username

API Password

API Signature

]]> http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/45/feed 0 Setting: Payment Gateways To Use http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/37 http://www.sumaplugin.com/article/37#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:32:44 +0000 Brenton http://www.sumaplugin.com/beta/?p=37 Determines which Payment Gateway providers are to be enabled for your website.

Currently, the only Payment Gateway supported is PayPal.  However, other gateways based on other popular payment processors are planed to be released in the future.

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