We used PayPal for one of our small projects. I had a ticket(s) to sell to an event. The user filled out info on a form and when they submitted that form, it wrote the info to our DB. The next page had a link to pay online via PayPal. They clicked that and did their thing on PP and the final confirmation link went back to our site with a hidden field which contained the userid originally inserted into my table AND passed on to PP. Their record was updated with a PAID status and we just went to PP and checked on the order details. Sort of a cheesy way to handle it, really, but it worked. Ideally, one would write a python program to handle the auto-confirmation coming back in from PayPal. I inquired about this a while back and did not have the knowledge to do it myself. Seems like a Python wizard could whip this out in a few minutes... Its all on the PP website as to how to handle this transaction. Seems like it would be a GREAT thing to have as a Zope product in the form of Python External methods. Anyone else? -Allen -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Breuer, Yvon Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:25 PM To: yan zhang; zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] RE: Online donation and Zope

Yvon,

I am working for a startup fundation. We want to design a online donation page. We use Zope as our webserver right now. * We want to have online donations. Do you have such experience that can share with us?

Many thanks

Yan zhang

I'd like to help, but... Untill now I don't know how to do that. Simply, because I'm not far enough in the development of my website. To begin with I'd better learn Zope a little bit better. :-) Before starting with these kind of advanced features for the site. But, I've heard about PayPal! (See: http://www.paypal.com) It can be used for online payments, so for donations too. This is what I was thinking of for my site. I haven't searched into this more deeply, because I didn't need it immediately. But (again), since you are interested too (and seem to need this information now) I'll post some questions to the list: 1. Does anybody have experience with PayPal? If so: Was it any good? Why or why not? 2. Do credit card companies have a standard module or program to have online payments on your website? 3. Is there a way to let people fill out a online 'authorization form'? I don't know the correct term for this in English. What I mean is that someone gives you the right to let you withdraw a certain amount from his/her bankaccount. This might be only once or regularly (say once a month) depending on what this person filled out on that 'authorization form'. 4. It there a *** preferred ;-) *** product available for Zope? 5. Any other (better) ideas/experiences for online payments? Best regards, Yvon Breuer _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )