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[hbradshaw]

Hello:
I hope someone can take me under their wing and point me in the right direction with this.
The director of my tennis club wants to setup a registration form for junior camp. He wants the ability for people registering to pay online.
There are three options:
1. pay at the club
2. charge to member account
3. pay via credit card
Dealing with options 1 and 2 is not a problem. He just wants an email stating indicating whether it is option 1 or 2.
It's option 3 I don't know how to handle. He wants the payment to be submitted into a PayPal account.
How do I begin? I know that when a customer clicks the process button, the information needs to be passed to PayPal. I don't know how to achieve this.
Can someone help me out?

Thank you in advance.

[AstroTeg]

I'm pretty sure there's tons of info on this. First stop should be at paypal.com and look into IPN. I'm pretty sure you'll need a PayPal account to do this (you have to log in, and then go find the developers section, or look for merchant info, or search for IPN docs).

You can also look at hotscripts.com and do a search for PayPal IPN and I'm sure they'd have some scripts up there to play with.

In my opinion, the FIRST thing you should do is sit down and spend some time (like an hour or two) and just read over the IPN process and how it works. Sure, you can grab code off of hotscirpts, but if you have no understanding of why it works, it'll be tough to integrate the code into your site and troubleshoot it.

[hbradshaw]

Hi,

Thank you for the information. I will definately read up on everything before trying to code something.