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I accept paypal for my SaaS site, and I absolutely hate their system. The IPN system is painful. I spent months playing whack-a-mole trying to figure out how
by jcampbell1 12y ago
I accept paypal for my SaaS site, and I absolutely hate their system. The IPN system is painful. I spent months playing whack-a-mole trying to figure out how to correctly handle the 20 or so different transaction types.
I use paypal often as a user, and I love it. For recurring billing, I can cancel the service at PayPal and I don't have to worry about some site losing my credit card information to hackers. I also don't have to freak out when my credit card expires and worry that I am going to lose all my data at github if I miss the email.
- zhengyi13 12y agoI used to work at PayPal (6+ years ago), specifically in Merchant Technical Support. Speaking strictly for myself, I hated IPNs too, and having come from another payment gateway with a similarly unreliable out-of-band notification system, I was always mystified as to why folks would build whole fulfillment systems around them. I mean, I know the API-based product is more expensive, but this is your business, right? If you have any kind of significant volume, I would think the reliability of straight API calls would make the additional cost well worth it.