Today I take payments from customers using Paypal. The issue is that I do not know how to automate it so that payment is validated before an order gets posted to me, e.g currently: 1. customer places an order 2. order sent to my inbox 3. customer directed to paypal, and makes payment 4. If get an order in my inbox, then wait for the paypal payment confirmation to come through. 5. Once paypal confirms payment I process the customer order. I know i could change round so that customer pays first (step 3), then places order (step 1), but without going into details it would be difficult for my customers. What I want to do is use the facility to exchange a token with paypal so that the website software acknowledges payment before sending the order to me. Is there any script out there that can help with this automation programming? FYI my website uses MS Access and ASP