Re: Payment Method
Originally Posted by
dcowgill
What are common methods in your countries to pay for things online? PayPal is the most widespread which is why it's built into ClassiPress. That's really ashame that they don't allow it to be used in some places.
Hi dcowgill, thanks for replying.
According to
https://www.paypal.com/worldwide I'm in one of the few unlucky countries where withdrawing can only be made to a US bank account and not to a credit card account, a local bank or by a check (along with Dominican Republic, South Africa and Venezuela). So sorry to bug you with a problem probably no one else will have to work with.
What we normally do is build our websites up to the the point you would redirect to Paypal like ClassiPress does, but instead redirect to a local bank. Their payment page is a lot like paypal's pay by credit card section, they have an eCommerce system that basically requires me to send them there with a couple parameters in the URL, so I would need to change that in my copy of ClassiPress. I would basically have two questions prior to buying.
1. My approach would be editing the Final Step of ClassiPress's ad post process so instead of going to PayPal, it goes to my bank where costumers enter their credit card details. I wonder if I can edit the address where it goes at that point, can I do that?
2. After they pay (I haven't actually bought an ad on any ClassiPress page, but I guess Paypal sends confirmation to a determined page where you show the success of the transaction and the ad gets submitted or a variable is updated showing it was paid for). My bank can redirect to that page as well if it exists, sending whatever parameters you currently get from paypal after the transaction. If there is no such thing, I can simply send to the bank redirection string the ad ID so I manually verify which ads have been paid for on the bank's site, and update whatever needs to be updated in the database.
I'm more concerned about question 1, it could be a show stopper if it is hard coded to go to paypal. On question 2, I can figure out what to do. I do have some PHP experience, but I'd have to see the code myself to find out if it can be done. I don't want to buy and the find out it will not work for me, so any clues will be welcome.
If I get things working somehow, I'll be more than happy to assist others on the forum when they stumble into this.
