Questions tagged [activemerchant]

Active Merchant is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify

Active Merchant is an extraction from the e-commerce software solution . It provides a simple and unified API to access dozens of different payment gateways with very different internal APIs.


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What can I store locally while still being PCI Compliant using Braintree in Rails?

What credit card information am I allowed to store while still being PCI compliant if I am relying on braintree for payment processing? The reason I am asking is because, as a simple optimization, if a customer has already bought something from my…
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Paypal, Recurring Billing, and ActiveMerchant

I'm trying to research how to add a subscription based pay model on an existing site of mine, but am running into a lot of conflicting information and caused me to be a bit lost. All I need is a very simple way to set up recurring billing (per…
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Recurring billing with Rails - what are my options?

Before jumping in I'd like to know what all of my options are, and, if possible their pros and cons. The two I know of are using ActiveMerchant, or the paypal_recurring gem, but will they satisfy these requirements? Ability to accommodate monthly…
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activemerchant paypal gateway configuration

I'm trying to config my paypal gateway and activemerchant with help of railscasts tutorial but I'm a bit confused because the gateway information has changed. That's the old config from the tutorial: gateway =…
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Rails: Using Paypal to faciliate marketplace transactions (parallel or chained?)

I want to build a marketplace site where my application connects a 'buyer' and a 'seller' and takes a commission (%) in the process. I've checked out Adaptive payments API on Paypal and have seen 'parallel payments' as well as 'chained payments'.…
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how to implement a payment system in rails

I am new to the rails world and am in the process of setting up a small rails app for a client. One of the requirements is that the user enters their credit card which gets charged for a specified amount. I haven't had much experience with…
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Active Merchant Integrations (off site payments)

My original question (below) was perhaps too specific, so I'm going to ask something more general! Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial, example or documentation on using Active Merchant Integrations to support an offsite payment…
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Is it possible to do credit card payments from a heroku server using activemerchant?

I'm building an app that needs to accept credit card payments with something like active merchant. In terms of security, is it possible for it to live on heroku and use authorize.net (or similar) as the payment gateway? What if it needs to store the…
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How to use ActiveMerchant for Paypal website payments standard?

I'm trying to set up a rails app to use Paypal website payments standard. I'd rather have users click a button and submit their info on the Paypal site rather than on my site, but I'd like to use ActiveMerchant for it's test mode and handling of…
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What payment processing frameworks, like ActiveMerchant, are available for other languages?

Rails has frameworks such as ActiveMerchant and Freemium (which uses ActiveMerchant) to simplify dealing with payment processing. What other frameworks are there for other programming languages such as PHP or Python?
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active merchant paypal gateway security header is not valid issue

I followed this railscast to set up active merchant on a rails 4.1 app. While I try to create orders and pay, I get the error from paypal server: Security header is not valid My question: What is wrong in my set up to have that kind of error ? By…
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PayPal integration Ruby on Rails

I've seen posts that you should use ActiveMerchant for PayPal integration, but I also found this on the PayPal website.I'm struggling with placing what in which file, since I'm totally new to RoR. So I was trying to integrate the PayPal, but am not…
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PayPal express / Active Merchant - not displaying line items or cart total?

I'm trying to set up a PayPal express checkout using active merchant but I'm running into problems. I've followed a tutorial and I can get to the "choose a way to pay" form on paypal but there are no items or prices displayed. Here's a screenshot.…
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Customizing Paypal Express's Review Page using ActiveMerchant

I am using ActiveMerchant to give my rails app access to Paypal's Express Checkout. I would like to include the Order Details on the Review Page as described here:…
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PayPal error: This transaction is invalid. Please return to the recipient's website to complete your transaction using their regular checkout flow

I was trying to implement paypal payment gateway. But I am getting an error: This transaction is invalid. Please return to the recipient's website to complete your transaction using their regular checkout flow. In Gem File gem 'activemerchant',…
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