Paypal Pro examples

[feemish]

I think Man City are using Paypal Pro. Well at least the express checkout. They seem to be using website payments standard not payments direct.. maybe because of the pci issue (or should i say confusion)

I say confusion because there are so many conflicting views from Actinic, Paypal and the Paypal developers forum regarding this issue, (of Paypal pro and pci compliance), and for the life of me, I cant get to the bottom of it.

Actinic (and other posts on this forum) explicitly say the SSL pages need to be on a pci compliant server
http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=45030

A Paypal merchant developer just explicitly told me on the phone the opposite, that SSL pages at checkout is all you need as long as you dont store any cc details, to be pci compliant (along with displaying the correct blurb on your site). That my server does not need to be pci compliant as it is only transmitting encrypted cc details.

The paypal developers forum has threads saying that too.
http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/boar...cending&page=1

http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/sear...sage&q=pro+pci

I would love to know the definitive answer, there is so much differing opinion.
I suspect that the server actually does need to be pci compliant.. but the wildly differing opinions are very confusing.

[grantglendinnin]

It may interest some of you to know that Manchester City FC, reportedly the Premier Leagues richest club use Actinic for their shop and... wait for it.... only accept paypal. No other PSP. Just Paypal.

http://shop.mcfc.co.uk/

Have a look.

A sign of the times, perhaps? And...Man City who?!

[Duncan Rounding]

I thought it was fro Man U at first!
Stock site - I expected something a bit more footballie.

http://shop.mcfc.co.uk/cgi-bin/mf008...CTION=SHOWFORM has problems.

[guccij]

I wouldn't buy off that site for love nor money. Shocking that they haven't spotted it's totally borked.

[grantglendinnin]

I wouldn't buy off that site for love nor money. Shocking that they haven't spotted it's totally borked.

So nothin' to do with it being City? Lol

[Duncan Rounding]

Now when it comes to Man U - I hear they've got an extra £80m to spend on their site....

[feemish]

Man City are actually the richest football club in the world;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle4657058.ece

Man Utd are actually massively in debt.

I wouldn't buy off that site for love nor money.

Obviously not a city fan.. but with a turnover of £82 million I dont think they'll be worried about that.

Anyway, massive business... accepting only paypal on their website.

[guccij]

Actually it's not so much I *wouldn't* buy from that site. I COULDN'T buy from that site. It's broken.

As far as the Paypal thing is concerned, then clearly MCFC understands its target market.

[feemish]

erm... Its not broken. I just bought a Robhinho shirt for my nephew half an hour ago... maybe you have a problem with your browser?

[guccij]

I just bought a Robhinho shirt for my nephew half an hour ago

One born every minute ...

[Darren B]

Yaaaaaaaawn

Are we still having this debate, if you think its great then its your choice, if you think PPP is compliant with and SSL then go for it, it is obvious that what ever is said here will not be listened to

Personnally i listen to these people https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ i think they know what there talking about

[cbarling]

Thanks for all of the contributions everyone.

I would stand by the advice that Actinic provide in the knowledge base. We didn't just throw this together, we thought carefully about it and have discussed it through with specialists, including banks.

I'm now going to close this thread as I think everything has been debated through. I'm also deleting a couple of posts which don't seem to be entirely on topic

Chris