Paypal and the payments api

Qamar Ramzan
Qamar Ramzan
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in Merchant Services APIs

Hi everyone,

I am trying to understand how the payment api handles the checkout process for payments by paypal.

For credit card payments which get a 200 status code we can grab the ID to use for the bbps_transaction_id value to create the gift.

As I understand it a successful Paypal payment returns a status code of 201 which returns no data but is a successful transaction. My questions are

  • how do you get the id
  • How do we detect the payment was paypal so we can do some other logic

Thanks in advance


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  • Mina Mistry
    Mina Mistry Blackbaud Employee
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    Hi @Qamar Ramzan

    To get the transaction ID: the Checkout Transaction endpoint will return a 201 response for all successful PayPal transactions. In the 201 response header, there is a Location property that will contain the transaction ID. However, as noted in the documentation, using the GET Transaction endpoint for any PayPal transaction returns a 404 because those transactions are processed with PayPal directly.

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    To know when PayPal has been used: unfortunately, there is no explicit transaction type that will tell you it's a PayPal transaction, but if you get a 201 response as mentioned above, plus a 404 when trying to get transaction details, it is most likely a PayPal transaction.

    Hope this helps!

  • Qamar Ramzan
    Qamar Ramzan
    Second Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1

    @Mina Mistry
    Thank you Mina

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