Paypal Pro HOSTED Solution

[intrapreneur]

I see that Paypal is teeing up the Paypal Pro Hosted solution which was flagged up by them at the Actinic Users Conference last Autumn and has published an integration guide. http://tinyurl.com/3abvkrp

Is anyone progressing this?

[zigzagad]

I've been having a quick look at this and it looks to me as if this should be fairly simple for Actinic to come up with a way of integrating the hosted solution to provide a PCI-DSS compliant solution.

I'm just about to have a play with a modified standard PayPal OCC file.

[intrapreneur]

Well if you could come up with a workable solution I would be very interested. When I asked Actinic about this they said:

Hi

My apologies for the delay.

The answer unfortunately was not readily available, so I contact the production manager who has responded with the following: -

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The new PayPal Pro Hosted Solution is not the same as the old PayPal Pro,
and our existing integration will not work with it.
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Kind Regards
G.W.Green
Actinic Software Support

[zigzagad]

I've taken a look and its way, way beyond me!

It's a shame, because it does look to me that coming up with a new integration would be quite simple for Actinic.

It its simplest, you use a form to pass the necessary info over to PayPal, this is taken from PayPals Hosted Solution integration guide:

<form action=https://securepayments.paypal.com/acquiringweb?cmd=_hostedpayment
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_hosted-payment">
<input type name="subtotal" value="50">
<input type name="business" value="HNZ3QZMCPBAAA">
<input type name="return"
value="https://yourwebsite.com/receipt_page.html">
<input type="submit" name="METHOD" value="Pay">
</form>

I've created a static form with all the fields necessary and it passes across and populates the PayPal payment screen correctly, but integrating in with Actinic is not something I can deal with.

[Clive.Aspen]

A paypal pro solution that integrated with actinic and was PCI compliant would be very useful. 70% of our orders are made using paypal (despite having a merchant account option in secure epayments) So this sounds ideal.

[zigzagad]

I've emailed a guy at PayPal Integration that I've been in contact with regarding this that I'm now going to have to advise my client to use another PSP.

I'm not going to hold my breath, but I guess if enough people kick up a fuss then between them PayPal and Actinic might look at this with a bit more interest.