Gotchas of Automating PayPal Transaction Processing

July 11th, 2007 UATP, the airline-owned global corporate travel payment network, is helping to enable PayPal payments for online airline ticket purchases and has successfully launched PayPal payment for Southwest Airlines. Through the UATP network of over 220 airlines around the globe, PayPal is able to use the network to connect to the airlines and process payments.

June 29th, 2006 Google Launched Google Checkout today. It appears to be a surefire PayPal killer.

October 8th, 2009 PayPal and Google checkout are both widely used online payment services for e-commerce.  PayPal the affiliate cash register for eBay and Google Checkout a Google product are both bigwigs in the arena of payment processing. While doing with the top 5 alternatives for PayPal the first name that emerged in my mind was Google checkout.There's often a draw between the two services when you have to decide, which service to choose.

September 17th, 2007 PayPal support page isn't visible even for logged in users. Any email to support@paypal.com is automatically bounced.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - PayPal, an eBay company, today announced that it is launching new protection for its eBay sellers. The new coverage will provide protection against unauthorised payments and claims for items not received for eligible items sold on eBay websites.

September 21st, 2006 I received a mysterious email from PayPal (verified the headers) informing - "The Drop Box feature is now enabled on your PayPal account. You can access the Drop Box using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) at the following location:" The location is blank.

August 21st, 2009 Whether sending money to loved ones, paying cash merchants or receiving money, most of you stick to the age old Paypal. No doubt PayPal remains the favorite online payment service, yet its has snags that might hamper your smoothly running e-commerce.

March 7th, 2006 RoR multi-table transaction appears to be a mess. You have to create transactions on each table.

August 4th, 2009 PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumersSAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday.

March 24th, 2004 cgi-bin programs (common executables) can be run from Tomcat. It is however not enabled by default.

July 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - PayPal is set to become the first truly global platform for payment. San Jose-based PayPal, which is a company of eBay, announced Friday that it plans to open its online payment platform to third-party developers.

May 29th, 2008 StatCounter sent a somewhat emotional email yesterday to all customers (paying or non-paying) telling us about the problems it is facing with PayPal. To summarize the two major issues affecting StatCounter Paypal subscribers are: - Delayed issuing of invoices - Instances of double billing StatCounter complains - At StatCounter we have tried phoning, emailing, posting on the Paypal forums...

June 28th, 2006 This week, possibly as soon as Wednesday, Google is expected by many to unveil a new Internet payment system. It may start out as an online wallet but could become a PayPal-like infrastructure for payments across the Web, handling everything from skis to music and videos, analysts said Tuesday.

November 9th, 2005 Don't exchange personal information. Read all of the information about the seller.

June 1st, 2007 I am unable to login to PayPal this morning (evening my time). On proper login it gives the message: We are unable to complete your request at this time.