Use PayPal

Place an order using catalog products defined in your Merchant Control Panel and collect the payment using PayPal.

Currency support

Check with 2Checkout support for a list of currencies available for PayPal.

Workflow

1. Create the order object. To place an order with PayPal rather than PayPal Express, use PAYPAL as the type of the PaymentDetails object and send the shopper email a return URL as part of the PaymentMethod object. Place the order.

2. Once you place the order, 2Checkout logs it into the system. At this point in time, the status of the order is PENDING. 2Checkout responds with the Order information object.

3. Redirect shoppers to the RedirectURL from the Order information object you receive as response from 2Checkout.

4. Once shoppers log in to their PayPal account and complete the transaction, they're redirected to the ReturnURL you set in the order object. 2Checkout also authorizes the order and updates the status to AUTHRECEIVED.

5. If shoppers log in to their PayPal account and fail to complete the transaction or they cancel it, they're redirected to the CancelURL you set in the order object. 2Checkout updates the status to PENDING.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type / Description
sessionID	Required (string) Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.
Order	Required (object) Object designed to collect all data necessary for an order, including billing, product/subscription plan and payment details. To place an order with PayPal rather than PayPal Express, use PAYPAL as the type of the PaymentDetails object and send the shopper email and a return URL as part of the PaymentMethod object. See the code sample.

Request sample

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

class Configuration
{
    public const MERCHANT_CODE = '';
    public const MERCHANT_KEY = '';
    public const URL = 'http://api.2checkout.com/rpc/6.0';
    public const ACTION = 'placeOrder';
    public const ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS = null;
    //array or JSON
    public const PAYLOAD = <<<JSON
{
  "Country": "us",
  "Currency": "USD",
  "CustomerIP": "91.220.121.21",
  "ExternalReference": "RPC_API_AVANGTE",
  "Language": "en",
  "Source": "testAPI.com",
  "BillingDetails": {
    "Address1": "Test Address",
    "City": "LA",
    "State": "California",
    "CountryCode": "US",
    "Email": "[email protected]",
    "FirstName": "Customer",
    "LastName": "2Checkout",
    "Zip": "12345"
  },
  "Items": [\
    {\
      "Code": "A90B3D8FDE",\
      "Quantity": 1\
    }\
  ],
  "PaymentDetails": {
    "Currency": "USD",
    "CustomerIP": "91.220.121.21",
    "FundingSource": "Credit",
    "PaymentMethod": {
      "RecurringEnabled": false,
      "ReturnURL": "http://secure.avangate.local/test/index.php",
      "CancelURL": "http://secure.avangate.local/test/create_order.php"
    },
    "Type": "PAYPAL"
  }
}
JSON;
}

class Client
{
    private const LOGIN_METHOD = 'login';
    private $calls = 1;
    private $sessionId;

    private function generateAuth(): array
    {
        $merchantCode = Configuration::MERCHANT_CODE;
        $key = Configuration::MERCHANT_KEY;
        $date = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($date) . $date;
        $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);

        return compact('merchantCode', 'date', 'hash');
    }

    public function login(string $url)
    {
        $payload = $this->generateAuth();
        $response = $this->call($url, array_values($payload), self::LOGIN_METHOD);
        $this->sessionId = $response['result'];
    }

    public function call(
        string $url = Configuration::URL,
        $payload = Configuration::PAYLOAD,
        string $action = Configuration::ACTION
    ): ?array {
        if (empty($this->sessionId) && $action !== self::LOGIN_METHOD) {
            $this->login($url);
        }
        if(is_string($payload)) {
            $payload = json_decode($payload, true);
        }
        if (!empty($this->sessionId)) {
            $payload = [$this->sessionId, $payload, Configuration::ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS];
        }
        $payload = array_filter($payload);

        $request = json_encode([\
            'jsonrpc' => '2.0',\
            'method' => $action,\
            'params' => $payload,\
            'id' => $this->calls++,\
        ]);
        $curl = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json', 'Cookie: XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM'));
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
        $response = curl_exec($curl);
        if(empty($response)) {
            die('Server unavailable');
        }
        echo $response . '</br>';
        return json_decode($response, true);;
    }
}
$client = new Client();
$result = $client->call();
var_dump($result);

Response parameters

Parameter	Type / Description
Order information	Object Object containing order information.