Using Authorization & Capture method

[sg2046]

Hello,

Is it possible to modify a paypal checkout button to work with the PayPal Authorization & Capture method rather than instant charge?

Thank you.

[amin007]

Nope, eStore doesn’t handle Authorization and capture method.

[sg2046]

Is there any workaround you can think of? I really like the plug-in but need this functionality to adjust sales tax according to NY State tax rules after buyer’s funds have been authorized. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[amin007]

To do authorize and capture you just have to send some additional variable to the PayPal gateway which is not hard. The hardest part is what happens after the authorization? At the moment the checkout flow is designed for minimum number of clicks required for the customer to perform the checkout (this helps to keep a low cart abandonment rate).

I don’t fully know the NY state tax rule but I thought if you used PayPal’s profile based sales and tax system then you should be fine? Because PayPal allows you to configure region based tax in your Profile. WP eStore can work with your PayPal’s profile based tax. Have you tried this approach?

[sg2046]

Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately, NY state sales tax rules are much too convoluted for PayPal’s zip code system since they vary by county. This means that in order to properly calculate the exact tax, one needs to know the physical address + the zip code of the buyer. Over or under charging the tax is against the law. This forces me to manually figure our the tax and invoice the buyer after the’ve placed an order. Unfortunately, this cannot be automated.

As a workaround, I thought I could use eStore’s shopping cart to gather final amount and send it to PayPal for authorization. Since the buyer would enter his/her shipping address inside PayPal, I could then manually figure out the exact tax, readjust the authorized amount, then capture the funds. What are your thoughts?

Thank you.

[amin007]

I see. It’s gonna be hard to do the capture with eStore because the capture uses a different API so you it will need a lot of code modification on eStore’s part.

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