Displaying “Pay” instead of “Continue” on the PayPal site with PayPal Payments Pro UK Express Checkout
By default, PayPal Express Checkout for PayPal Payments Pro UK displays a "Continue" button and sends the user back to your site expecting a confirmation page before actually making the payment.
This differs from other PayPal checkout procedures and, in my testing, I found that users expected to complete the transaction once on the PayPal [...]
Two ways to change your business’s name on PayPal…
First way:
Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success.
Second way:
Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]
Google App Engine not blocking PayPal?
Update: Marzia from the Google App Engine team responded to the post. It is a bug (and, according to yet another update on the forums, this has now been fixed).
Here's Marzia's comment:
This is a bug, and we have located the problem. There was an error in our anti-phishing protections that was blocking some specific URL [...]
PayPal vs. Google Checkout: countries supported
Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs [...]
PayPal country list component for Flex
If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API.
There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to [...]


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