Paypal Shopping Cart

Question

I'm working on an application that eventually will need a paypal shopping cart.  Is this even possible with Lightswitch?

Answer 1

It should be.  PayPal appears to have a large number of APIs that let vendors integrate with PP in a variety of ways.

In a LightSwitch app, on the middle tier, you can do whatever things are normally done with ASP.NET 4.0.  I don't see any reason why that couldn't include calling PayPal's APIs to process a payment.

A quick glance around PayPal's developer sites suggest that there are SOAP bindings for some of the Payment gateway functions.  This seems like a good match for LS.

https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1041

I suspect that sometime shortly after LS 1.0, someone will make a PayPal integration module for LS that you can license.

Answer 2

It should be.  PayPal appears to have a large number of APIs that let vendors integrate with PP in a variety of ways.

In a LightSwitch app, on the middle tier, you can do whatever things are normally done with ASP.NET 4.0.  I don't see any reason why that couldn't include calling PayPal's APIs to process a payment.

A quick glance around PayPal's developer sites suggest that there are SOAP bindings for some of the Payment gateway functions.  This seems like a good match for LS.

https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1041

I suspect that sometime shortly after LS 1.0, someone will make a PayPal integration module for LS that you can license.

Upon LS 1.0, I'll share some info on a third party info that is available as ASP.Net service that needs to be called from LS app. The Stuff from Paypal are pain in neck! :-)

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