Taking online payments

[liamloveslearning]

Hi all,

 

first of all sorry if this is in the wrong board, im currently building a site which will charge an annual fee of X amount.

I've never build something like this before so Ill be using paypal for ease of use and security, but how would you usually go about constructing the tables etc?

[spiderwell]

what exactly are you after, paypal have a pretty good intergrated system for allowing you to add buttons to send users to paypal, and you can use hidden form fields to add other parameters, such as post&packing, productIDs, you can even have your own forms to add address details too, or just let paypal handle it all.

 

do you want to store it all in a database table? if so I would suggest making a table with the appropriate columns for detail you want to record, and when paypal finish the transaction, they can pass back to your site with all the info too, so the page that picks up that can then add to database.

[liamloveslearning]

Thanks Spiderwell, Ill need to store if they have paid and then the date they have paid, sorry, think Ive just answered my own question...