Hi, i want to put a buy now button from Paypal but i have a question. Paypal gives you an option to send the buyers to a specific page when the payment is successful, i could send them to a page with the download page, but i dont find that secure as somebody can find the page and download the zip without paying.... I saw that some sites with paypal buttons, send you the file to your mail when the payment is done... my question is, How can i do that? I dont find that option in paypal so, does the webmaster manually send the files? I dont find this very comfortable Thanks, fuser
Let me get this straight: You want -- Buy Screen -> Downloads page But that isn't working, and you want to know how to fix it? I'm just trying to accurately assess the situation first.
Its called Instant Payment Notifcation (IPN) and sadly its not exactly easy to do, you`ll need a server side processor like perl, php or asp to deal with it. It works like this: 1. After the order is complete paypal sends the user back to your site to a server-side script that you choose. (ex: yoursite.com/process.php) 2. Paypal sends the order data to your script 3. Your script sends the data back to paypal to confirm its legit. 4. Once its confirmed legit by paypal, you could then show the person the download link or have the script email the person.
TIP: Encrypt the button - You can enter the url to the zip file instead of the download page in the payment successful field on the PayPal form and make sure you choose the encrypt option. The encryption hides the link location.
Excellent idea... i have a buy.php page where i want to put a paypal buy now button and the take the buyer to a bought.php where he gets a "successfull payment, thank you for buying" or something like that but i think that linking the paypal buton to the zip file could also work... i like the idea of the bought.php because it thanks the buyer and tells him we got the payment but well, i dont want to put there a download link... Thanks everybody for the ideas! fuser
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