PayPal invoices

[cavadore]

Hello, all,

I'm using the paypal button in my website to allow my user to pay for a software we sell.
It works fine.

There are the following tabs
"General" "Details" "Shipping" "Payment pages" "Options" "Extra variables"

I would like paypal to generate an invoice that goes the customer for this purchase.

The paypal API seems to handle this.

May be this could be enabled somewhere in the "Extra variables" tab ? If one knows how to proceed ?

There is something here about that ->
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/invoicing/v2/

This would save us a lot of time, because editing invoices manually is a pain.

All the best,

PS: This is a pity that I could not attach images (such as screen copies) in this forum. PhpBB allows this feature.

[zinc]

Hello, all,

I'm using the paypal button in my website to allow my user to pay for a software we sell.
It works fine.

There are the following tabs
"General" "Details" "Shipping" "Payment pages" "Options" "Extra variables"

I would like paypal to generate an invoice that goes the customer for this purchase.

The paypal API seems to handle this.

May be this could be enabled somewhere in the "Extra variables" tab ? If one knows how to proceed ?

There is something here about that ->
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/invoicing/v2/

This would save us a lot of time, because editing invoices manually is a pain.

All the best,

PS: This is a pity that I could not attach images (such as screen copies) in this forum. PhpBB allows this feature.

PayPal does generate an invoice and sent as an email one you make a purchase but not as an attachment. - IF you require a specific invoice, you need to generate it yourself and send it separately as none of the current PayPAl solutions at WWB's disposal do this.

[cavadore]

So you say paypal does not offer any automatic invoicing system to customer one he had paid ?

Here in France, invoices are mandatory otherwise you can get fined by the french taxes services.

Rgds,

[[RZ]]

of course in any place an invoice is mandatory.
the purchase receipt you receive from paypal is <the> invoice (as paypal has all the financial information about the buyer), however the seller is responsible of the taxes and other applicable fees related to his business

[BaconFries]

To add to this whatever method the buyer uses such as a credit card debt card will be shown in there statement as a transaction. If paying by a PayPal account again this will show all transactions. If your are the seller then you yourself should provide a invoice to the buyer even if it is a pain.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/i ... gIOxfD_BwE

https://www.paypal.com/uk/brc/article/h ... an-invoice

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/email-invoice

[cavadore]

The paypal solution is really obscure and require (to my knowledge) manual intervention, that I would like to avoid.
May be there is an alternative system for selling that generate such invoices compared ? I've look at mycommerce and 2checkhout ?
How to integrate them with WYSIWYG web builder ?

[BaconFries]

You can use the HTML Object for external code . Please note there is support on this as it is understood that you already know how to use and insert code manually yourself.

[cavadore]

That could the beginning of a solution.
I'm using them for other things...thanks.