PayPal Security Update

In April 2015 the PCI Security Standards Council issued guidance that SSL and early versions of TLS could no longer be considered secure. It set a deadline of June 30th 2016 for payment vendors to only allow connections over a TLS1.2 secured channels. As part of this, PayPal (and other payment vendors) have begun the …

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PayPal Pro: Beta Testing

If you have a payment gateway that you want to see supported by Event Organiser, you can request it with this form. Out of the box, Event Organiser supports PayPal and ‘offline’ as means of selling tickets. There is also the stripe extension, for accepting credit card payments on your site (without sending them to …

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Change Which Gateways Are Enabled For An Event

Gateway settings (merchant account details etc) must be the same across all events – but it is possible to restrict which gateways appear on which events – for instance to allow PayPal purchases only on some events To do this we use the eventorganiser_enabled_gateways hook, which filters the enabled gateways. Step 1: Specify which gateways …

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How To Change The Return Url (PayPal)

As mentioned in this article on enabling auto-redirect, setting the return url [in PayPal accounts] will not affect the url they are redirected too as the plug-in specifies the return url when it sends the user to the gateway. By default users are returned to the booking page with a thank you noticed displayed at …

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Automatically Redirecting Users Back To Your Site (PayPal)

By default auto-return is disabled in your PayPal account: when a user completes their purchase they remain on the PayPal site, and presented with a link back to your bookings page (which will display a thank you notice) – but they are not automatically redirected. Event if users do no return to your site, the …

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