Accept 2 kinds of payments paypal -- micro and regular

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Accept 2 kinds of payments paypal -- micro and regular

Post by medusa11365 » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:24 am

It came to my attention that it might be advantageous to use a paypal micropayment account for the smaller purchases on our site. Is there a way to set the cart to automatically use one paypal account for payments under $12, and another for over $12 -- not a user choice?

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Re: Accept 2 kinds of payments paypal -- micro and regular

Post by mazhar » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:50 am

hmm It is not available out of the box but may be you could get this done through custom coding. One way could be modify gateway code to take care of two accounts. If order total is less then some desired amount then process that order with one account otherwise use second account.

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Re: Accept 2 kinds of payments paypal -- micro and regular

Post by medusa11365 » Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:11 am

Yes, I don't mind custom coding -- do you believe it might be accomplished without source, or would I need that?

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Post by mazhar » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:11 am

It depends. For example if you are able to write a complete custom gateway for PayPal then you can do this without source code. If instead of writing complete new gateway if you want to modify the existing paypal gateway code then you will be required to have its source code.

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Re: Accept 2 kinds of payments paypal -- micro and regular

Post by medusa11365 » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:51 am

Thanks!
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