
Introduction to the course.
Topics include:
How the “Buy Now” button and Instant Payment Notification (IPN) work;
How to create a test PayPal account and set up the IPN preferences;
How to create a “Buy Now” button and add it into your web page;
How to create an IPN listener* to handle IPN messages and verify the payment;
Testing the “Buy Now” button;
Making the “Buy Now” button live on your website.
* Asp.net (c#)webpage and code examples are available for download
Explain how the Buy Now button and IPN work
This video shows you how to create a Sandbox account with PayPal to test your payment process.
This video shows you how to configure the IPN preferences, i.e., to tell PayPal the URL of your IPN listener.
This video shows you how to create a Buy Now button on PayPal.
This video shows you how to copy and paste the Buy Now button code into your webpage.
This video shows you how to create an IPN listener in Visual Studio 2012.
This course is designed for web developers who needs to create a PayPal "Buy Now" button on their webpage. You are expected to have basic ASP.NET (C#) programming knowledge.
This online training video series explains how the Buy Now button works and how to create an IPN listener (asp.net webpage) to receive payment notifications from PayPal and also verify the validity of the payment with PayPal. The source code for the Visual Studio project, ASP.NET (C#), is available for download.
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