Help with Pay Pal integration.

[oracle]

Hello All,

Here I need some help with my pay pal integration. I am ready to donate 200-300 credits for the same. I have following things to do:

1. Will my customer needs to have a paypal account to pay me ?
2. I have a page where customer generates coupons. Now he can set a few parameters like: Number of coupons and price per coupon, depending upon which total amount depends. i.e. the amount which my customer needs to pay me is generated dynamically. So can I take care of this thing with pay pal etc ??

Can I redirect my customer to paypal by appropriately setting the amount he needs to pay ? Or does he have to set it manually at paypal ?

Also I will be needing help with setting up the authentication things etc etc. This is my first time with paypal and I don't want to take chances.

Thanks in advance,
Imoracle

[ASPX.King]

I'm a paypal certified developer, listed in https://www.paypal.com/Certification/dc_directory.html under "Arizona" as Paul Rayes

Your customer does not need a paypal account, they can pay with a credit card
your PHP code can calculate the price they pay, and tell paypal that amount, which is what their account will be charged.

If you have a personal paypal account, you'll need to sign up for another one, at least a premier, or better yet, a business account.

[oracle]

I already have a premier account. I tried upgrading to business but it said that you already have a premier account.

Also can you brief me the steps i need to follow to make this integration happen. I am just too confused by seeing so many options in paypal.

Probably if you can tell in brief from where and what code should i take and use. Also it talks of some authentication once my customer has made a payment. What is that all about ??

Can you kindly brief the process ?

[ASPX.King]

click "merchant services" on the top of the page when you're logged in to paypal, from there you can get HTML code for buy now buttons, and donate buttons...

to get it to change the price, you need to use a script, php or javascript, that i can't help you with as much. javascript isn't very efficient for this, and i don't know php.

the authentication you don't have to worry about.

[oracle]

Ya i will use PHP for this surely to be more on a safer side. Lemme try and test it once [] Will be back in a day with the results