Product Description

Pro PayPal E-Commerce contains the most comprehensive collection of information on the latest PayPal technologies available. It takes the approach of PayPal as a digital money platform, and shows how its a dynamic service that offers far more than just payment processing.

With its breadth of technologies and APIs, the PayPal platform is a basis for development and innovation for an unlimited number of possibilities. It offers a wide range of payment technologies, but its not always easy to decipher which technology is the best choice for a web site. This book gets under the hood to show you how the different technologies work, how to choose the right solution, and how to implement the solutioncomplete with real-world PayPal success stories.

Youll learn how to integrate PayPal directly into web sites to make use of its payment technologies. This allows you, no matter what language you program in, to build shopping carts or similar channel products with PayPal as a payment option. You can also use this book to learn about the basics of e-commerce, where PayPal fits in, and how you can meet your own e-commerce needs. This book covers

• How PayPal works
• Using the PayPal API
• Website Payments Standard
• Website Payments Pro
• Instant Payment Notification
• Payment Data Transfer
• Encrypted Website Payments
• Administration
• Reporting
• Fraud protection
• Payflow Gateway

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235263 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 279 pages

About the Author
Damon Williams has worked at PayPal since 2004, where he has
specialized in making life easier for people trying to integrate PayPal
into web sites and applications. His background is in software
engineering, community building, and content publishing. He is a
certified Java developer with over seven years of experience, and he
also spent five years as the publisher of Feedback Magazine in Austin,
Texas. His current position is managing the PayPal Developer Network,
where he is building an online community for innovation and support on
the PayPal commerce platform.

Customer Reviews

nothing you cannot get from official documentation but...
This book doesn't offer nothing that you can't get from official documentation, but, sometimes look for answers in the paypal docs is time-consuming, and not as effective as whished. This book recopilates and order all that information in one resource, and that is the main reason to get it. I find specially interesting the appendix with all variables supported for the different paypal solutions.

I will give it more value if the book make an effort to give more information than the official doc. For instance, I will appreciate more info on Shipment, Taxes info. Other examples on IPN than the official ones, for instance, a PHP5 class to handle IPN will be valuable.

Good to have a wide view on options paypal has to offer, and good to save time of browsing to find a simple variable or reference.

If your a PHP Programmer...
If your a PHP programmer I would recommend that you buy both this book and the book "Web API's with PHP". Neither of the books is a one-stop solution for integrating paypal with php. But, using the books in conjunction with each other, an experienced programmer shouldn't have any trouble taming PayPal. Learning to uses the PDT, IPN or API from these two books is FAR EASIER than trying to chase down answers on PayPal's site and web forums.

What you need, when you need it.
Starts by providing an overview of the methods available to interface with PayPal. Enough for you to decide the one(s) you need.

Each chapter then describes how to implement those methods. Example code is given. Nice charts and figures.

Useful for someone who needs to actually do the work.