Setting up a paypal webpage to pay for offline services

[Wing Commander]

Hi all

We send out invoices to our customers on a stand alone system. Customers currently can pay by cheque or online bank transfer. What I am looking to do is set up a page that has embedded a paypal payment gateway.

Question is:

Can I do this so that people can just be given a link to the page, they go to it and make a payment with their invoice number as a reference (that they have inputted), and I just then tick it off our other system when I get notification of payment received?

If so, can anyone point me in the direction of the info needed? I know google is out there but it relies on me having the terminonology down, which at the moment, I do not.

Thanks

[jbswagger]

We use PayPal invoices. When you send the invoices, the email has a link to click to pay.

Is there a reason you want to set up a website?

[Wing Commander]

jbswagger said:

We use PayPal invoices. When you send the invoices, the email has a link to click to pay.

Is there a reason you want to set up a website?

That sounds like what I am after. Do you have a link for more information?

We have a website already but I was thinking of a new page that accepts payments. What you suggest could get around this

Thanks!

[Simpo Two]

You could just log into your Paypal account and use the 'Request Money' feature. You could add the order details/ref to it. That may be what jbswagger means.

[951TSE]

Simpo Two said:

You could just log into your Paypal account and use the 'Request Money' feature. You could add the order details/ref to it. That may be what jbswagger means.

Paypal have recently been pushing invoicing by email as a separate service. I assume that's what jbswagger is talking about. They're also pushing taking payments by phone, that is using Paypal as a 'customer not present' terminal as you would with other merchant accounts but there is a monthly fee.

The only problem you may have with integrating paypal into a website is if that website is written in wordpress. These two webpages might give you some help in that direction if you need it.

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-p...

https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

[LDN]

Look at PayPal.me : https://www.paypal.me

Takes a min' to set up. Would that work?

[VEX]

Depends how automated you want to be.

My Zinc card system allows face to face, telephone order and email invite to pay for no monthly cost, just a small % fee against payment.

Perfect for my low number transactions.

V.