Dear webmasters, I am starting a website that will provide various services that our clients will (hopefully) pay for. I thought it would be best if my clients could for instance buy 100 "credits" for $100 via PayPal. Somehow PayPal would let me know which user made the purchase and I would store those 100 credits in my database. This user could then purchase $100 (or 100 credits) worth of my services. Could you tell me the best way to achieve that? Does PayPal offer something like that? On the other hand - do you maybe think that it would be better if my users paid for each service via PayPal and I didn't have my own "credits" system. One more thing: Is it even possible to make everything this "automated". Can PayPal run one of my scripts with specific parameters (user ID, amount, ...) after the purchase has been done, so I can handle this user's request automatically (or add credits to his account). Thank you very much for your answers!
Dunker, Are you using anything like Vbulletin? If you are, there are plenty of mods out there that can do this. Regards Jarrod
@Jarrod: No, I have a custom-built application that offers various services to my users. I would like to make it possible for my users to purchase credits via PayPal and then pay for my services with those credits.