Storing credit card information with PayPal's 'Website Payments Pro'?

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David picture David · Aug 19, 2009 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I am developing an e-commerce website where some customers will be making frequent online purchases. With that said, I am trying to find a solution that will allow me to securely store credit card information, using Website Payments Pro, so customers do not need to re-enter credit card information every time that they make a purchase. I am aware of credit card "tokenization" services like Braintree, but they require you to use their entire payment platform. PayPal has confirmed that there are third party shopping carts out there that work with Website Payments Pro, that would securely store credit card information (as long as I am PCI compliant), but would not point me in the direction of one.

Does anyone know of a third party service that would fit my needs for this? Thanks for your time and help!

David

Answer

Manik Sharma picture Manik Sharma · Jul 4, 2012

You can make use of PayPal's Reference Transactions API that makes a transaction ID as reference to make future transactions without entering their credit card information.This way your customers can make payments throughout the year. Alternatively you can also make the billing agreement ID as the reference for future transactions.This way PayPal Payments Pro will pick the required details automatically from the previous transaction.Billing agreement ID has the benefit that it is not time bound for 1 year unlike transaction ID

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