PayPal Bookkeeping

PayPal Bookkeeping Software

As a practice followed by merchants world wide, bookkeeping helps businesses stay on track. Web-entrepreneurs and merchants who use PayPal to accept and make payment often find it hard to realize that how difficult PayPal bookkeeping could get. The traditional way of ‘trying’ to keep track of each payment, money transfer, refund and other transactions includes logging into PayPal’s website and requesting to download PayPal transaction history (at max 90 days at a time). And you won’t get it instantly – have to wait for an email from PayPal, which has a link to download, saying that the transaction history is ready to be downloaded. Once downloaded, it doesn’t get any easier – you need to download transaction histories 3 month’s at a time (at max) and then club them together. PaySketch is a PayPal Bookkeeping software makes is super easy for you to manage accounting, bookkeeping and reporting. Read more →

PaySketch version 4.3 released

We released PaySketch 4.3 today. It comes in as a major upgrade to the existing framework where we have added a bunch of features based on your requests and feedback. At the same time, we have also fine tuned the application interface and performance for so that it could embody more workload with ease. Here are the exciting new things that you get with PaySketch 4.3 Read more →

Create Custom Payment Page in PayPal

How to create custom payment pages in PayPal

Websites are virtual storefronts where buyers get to consume information and based on which they decide to buy things from websites. It is therefore necessary that one keeps their website streamlined and cohesive throughout the process. If you are using PayPal to accept payment, the default payment page will usually look very unlike your website. That is because it is PayPal’s default payment page which has been created to cater to all vendors/merchants worldwide. However, PayPal does give flexibility to give this page a minimalistic makeover so that it gels in much better your business branding. In this tutorial, we will see how to create custom payment pages in PayPal. Read more →

PayPal auto return url

PayPal Auto return URL

Wouldn’t it be nice to get buyers back to your website after they complete the payment process? You could greet them with a thanks, a summary and status of their order, and even allow them to download digital goods post payment confirmation. The PayPal auto return functionality lets you do just that – automatically redirect buyers back to your website right after they confirm and pay for the goods or services. Besides helping to complete the ordering process, this allows you to get notified, capture buyer presence and personalize their purchase process. Read more →

PayPal API Username, Password and Signature

PayPal API Username, Password and Signature

Application Programming Interface (API) provide channels for software components to talk to one another, exchange information and trigger actions. In simpler terms, APIs are functions/methods which help implement, develop and build upon while utilizing an existing generic framework. Talking in reference to PayPal, web urls which can be accessed along with identifiers and certain other parameters to make a payment, to get transaction details or to build a custom shopping cart would be called APIs. Identifiers are required to ensure authorized access to data and they are composed of a PayPal API username, password and signature. Let’s see how you can get your hands on this information for your PayPal merchant account. Read more →

PayPal PDT vs IPN

PayPal PDT vs IPN

Email Notifications are one of the ways PayPal merchants get to know about placed orders. But there are other notification methods which run in the background and whose power we can tap to get real time and accurate information about orders and customers. PDT and IPN are the two notification methods which do this and here, we are going to put them to test against each other. IN PayPal PDT vs IPN, we will look at the advantages and disadvantages of PayPal PDT and IPN services and compare them to see who fits in your use case and what you should be using to get notified. Read more →

PayPal PDT

Setup PayPal PDT (with PHP sample code)

PayPal PDT (Payment Data Transfer) is a method to redirect buyers and customers back to your website. PDT allows PayPal merchants to securely fetch details about a transaction and display order information, confirm payment, check for status, update databases, allow digital downloads, send out software licenses and queue orders for fulfillment. If done correctly, PDT can really help automate the complete process from payment to delivery. It is vitally helpful for merchants who use PayPal to sell digital content as the downloads can be made available right after a payment is made and confirmed. PayPal PDT is really easy to setup and your website gets rolling in a few minutes; we will show you just that in this tutorial. Read more →