Django PayPal is a pluggable application that implements with PayPal Payments Standard and Payments Pro. It focused on selling software - think "Buy it Now" single items with no shipping or recurring payments.

Before diving in further a quick overview of PayPal's different payment methods might help. PayPal Payments Standard is the "Buy it Now" button you may have seen floating around the internets. Buyers click on the button and are taken to PayPal's website where they can pay for the product. After completing the purchase PayPal makes an HTTP POST to your notify_url. PayPal calls this process Instant Payment Notification (IPN). Most people would agree that this method sucks (who wants to send people to PayPal's website)? But it is quick to implement and doesn't require any of your pages to use SSL.

PayPal Payments Pro allows you to accept payments on your website. It contains two payment flows - Direct Payment allows the user to enter credit card information on your website and pay on your website. Express Checkout sends the user over to PayPal to confirm their payment method before redirecting back to your website for confirmation. PayPal rules state that both methods must be implemented.

1. Download the code from GitHub:

    git clone git://github.com/johnboxall/django-paypal.git paypal
   

2. Edit settings.py and add paypal.standard or paypal.pro to your INSTALLED_APPS:

    # settings.py
    ...
    INSTALLED_APPS = (... 'paypal.standard', ...)
   

1. First create an instance of the PayPalPaymentsForm in a view. Call render on the instance to write out the HTML for the button.

   # views.py
   ...
   from paypal.standard.forms import PayPalPaymentsForm
   
   def view_that_asks_for_money(request):
   
       # What you want the button to do.
       paypal_dict = {
           "business": "yourpaypalemail@example.com",
           "amount": "100000.00",
           "item_name": "name of the item",
           "invoice": "unique-invoice-id",
           "notify_url": "http://www.example.com/your-ipn-location/",
           "return_url": "http://www.example.com/your-return-location/",
           "cancel_return": "http://www.example.com/your-cancel-location/",
       
       }
       
       # Create the instance.
       form = PayPalPaymentsForm(initial=paypal_dict)
       
       # Output the button.
       form.render()
   

2. When someone uses this button to buy something PayPal makes a HTTP POST to your "notify_url". PayPal calls this Instant Payment Notification (IPN). The view paypal.standard.views.ipn handles IPN processing. Make sure it is the same as the notify_url you specified in paypal_dict above then add it to your urls.py:

   # urls.py
   ...
   urlpatterns = patterns('',
       (r'^ipn/$', 'paypal.standard.views.ipn'),
       ...
   )
   

3. Connect actions to the signals generated when PayPal talks to your notify_url. Currently there are two signals payment_was_succesful and payment_was_flagged. Both live in paypal.standard.signals. You can connect to either of these signals and update your data accordingly when payments are processed. Django Signals Documentation.

   # models.py (or somewhere)
   
   from paypal.standard.signals import payment_was_successful
   
   def show_me_the_money(sender, **kwargs):
       ipn_obj = sender
       # Undertake some action depending upon `ipn_obj`.
       if ipn_obj.cust == "Upgrade all users!":
           Users.objects.update(paid=True)        
   payment_was_successful.connect(show_me_the_money)
   

Use this method to encrypt your button so sneaky gits don't try to hack it. Thanks to Jon Atkinson for the tutorial.

1. Encrypted buttons require the M2Crypto library:

    easy_install M2Crypto
   

2. Encrypted buttons require certificates. Create a private key:

    openssl genrsa -out paypal.pem 1024
   

3. Create a public key:

    openssl req -new -key paypal.pem -x509 -days 365 -out pubpaypal.pem
   

4. Upload your public key to the paypal website (sandbox or live).

   https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-website-cert

   https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-website-cert

5. Copy your cert id - you'll need it in two steps. It's on the screen where you uploaded your public key.

6. Download PayPal's public certificate - it's also on that screen.

7. Edit your settings.py to include cert information:

    # settings.py
    PAYPAL_PRIVATE_CERT = '/path/to/paypal.pem'
    PAYPAL_PUBLIC_CERT = '/path/to/pubpaypal.pem'
    PAYPAL_CERT = '/path/to/paypal_cert.pem'
    PAYPAL_CERT_ID = 'get-from-paypal-website'
   

8. Swap out your unencrypted button for a PayPalEncryptedPaymentsForm:

    # views.py
    from paypal.standard.forms import PayPalEncryptedPaymentsForm
    
    def view_that_asks_for_money(request):
        ...
        # Create the instance.
        form = PayPalPaymentsForm(initial=paypal_dict)
        # Works just like before!
        form.render()
   

This method uses Shared secrets instead of IPN postback to verify that transactions are legit. PayPal recommends you should use Shared Secrets if:

* You are not using a shared website hosting service. 
* You have enabled SSL on your web server. 
* You are using Encrypted Website Payments. 
* You use the notify_url variable on each individual payment transaction.

Use postbacks for validation if: * You rely on a shared website hosting service * You do not have SSL enabled on your web server

1. Swap out your button for a PayPalSharedSecretEncryptedPaymentsForm:

    # views.py
    from paypal.standard.forms import PayPalSharedSecretEncryptedPaymentsForm
    
    def view_that_asks_for_money(request):
        ...
        # Create the instance.
        form = PayPalSharedSecretEncryptedPaymentsForm(initial=paypal_dict)
        # Works just like before!
        form.render()
   

2. Verify that your IPN endpoint is running on SSL - request.is_secure() should return True!

PayPal Payments Pro is the more awesome version of PayPal that lets you accept payments on your site. Note that PayPal Pro uses a lot of the code from paypal.standard so you'll need to include both apps. Specifically IPN is still used for payment confirmation.

1. Edit settings.py and add paypal.standard and paypal.pro to your INSTALLED_APPS:

    # settings.py
    ...
    INSTALLED_APPS = (... 'paypal.standard', 'paypal.pro', ...)
   

2. Write a view wrapper for paypal.pro.views.PayPalPro and add it to your urls.py:

    from paypal.pro.views import PayPalPro
   
    def buy_my_item(request):
        item = {'amt':"10.00",              # amount to charge for item
                'inv':"inventory#",         # unique tracking variable paypal
                'custom':"tracking#",       # custom tracking variable for you
                'cancelurl':"http://...",   # Express checkout cancel url
                'returnurl':"http://..."}   # Express checkout return url
    
    kw = {'item':'item',                            # what you're selling
           'payment_template': 'template',          # template to use for payment form
           'confirm_template': 'confirm_template',  # form class to use for Express checkout confirmation
           'payment_form_cls': 'payment_form_cls',  # form class to use for payment
           'success_url': '/success',               # where to redirect after successful payment
           }
    ppp = PayPalPro(**kw)
    return ppp(request)
    
    # urls.py
    
    urlpatterns = ('',
        ...
        (r'^payment-url/$', 'myproject.views.pro')
        ...
    )
   

3. Profit. (Setup NVP / IPN endpoints to receive information)

Typically you'll want to set these fields in your form...

Flags are set on bad invalid transactions ...

• Shared Secrets: I'm not master of encryption and the Shared Secrets implementation is just a stab in the dark. The implementation should be vetted before production use.

• Fixmes: Scattered throughout the code are triple hash ### FIXME comments with little actionable items.

• Testing: Not enough coverage.

• Query Fields: Lots of fields store QueryDict dumps b/c we're not sure exactly what we're getting - would be cool to be able to access those fields like they were a dict (JSONField)

• Feeds: Would also be awesome to have a feed of successful payments so you keep up to date with how rich you're getting.

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