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The sandbox was a big hack. I worked there internally and it was a pain even inside. Maybe it's a bit different now, but I haven't looked back. :-D
by hawflakes 9y ago
The sandbox was a big hack. I worked there internally and it was a pain even inside.
Maybe it's a bit different now, but I haven't looked back. :-D
- stickfigure 9y agoIt's actually gotten worse. PayPal tried to "modernize" their old crufty SOAP API with a REST-based API but ended up creating a separate half-functional, poorly documented, buggy layer on top of it that actually loses payments sometimes. I processed millions of payments through it and actually have their support people admitting the problems. Their only hope is a reverse-takeover from Braintree. I'm not holding my breath; I've done my last PayPal integration. Forget all the "paypal will hold your money" concerns - the real problem is that they will loose your money in the wonky Rube Goldberg machine they've created to process payments.
- jeffasinger 9y agoIn a series of calls with the top tier of support at Paypal, no one was able to even answer which API was the best to use. I was told not to use SOAP (or NVP), because they're ancient, not to use REST because it wasn't ready yet, and that the Braintree API around PayPal would never support the features we were trying to implement. The project just ended up getting scrapped.