As for paying your bills directly from Xero, not yet but it’s coming.

I am having trouble integrating PayPal with xero. When I go to give the permissions “New Third Party Permissions” for xero I cannot find the 2 permissions as per the training video – “GetTransactionDetal” and “TransactionSearch”. What PayPal shows me is:

Use Express Checkout to process payments.

Issue a refund for a specific transaction.

Process your customers credit or debit card payments.

Authorise and capture your PayPal transactions.

Create and manage PayPal payment buttons on your website.

Obtain your PayPal account balance.

Obtain information about a single transaction.

Search your transactions for items that match specific criteria and display the results.

Charge an existing customer based on a prior transaction.

Create and manage Recurring Payments.

Obtain authorisation for pre-approved payments and initiate pre-approved transactions.

Accept or refuse a pending transaction.

Issue a refund for any prior transaction.

Initiate transactions to multiple recipients in a single batch.

Dynamically encrypt PayPal payment buttons on your web site.

Consolidate funds from two or more accounts to a master account.

Generate consolidated reports for all accounts.

Use Express Checkout to process mobile payments.

Authorise transactions with Universal Air Travel Plans.

Create and send invoices.

Generate reports for recurring billing and other outstanding orders.

Capture payments in batches.

Run dispute reports and issue batch refunds.

Create and modify accounts, and run reports on them.

Which ones do I check for correct integration?

Regards
Kerrin

Wondering if you are going to implement other online payment link such as those for the MIGS server, which I use. This would be great to be able to send an invoice, probably not a pdf, maybe a link to an invoice on a SSL web page and then have a pay now button which takes all the data to the MIGS server, allows payment and then returns them to a paid invoice and consequently updates the Xero accounting records. I don’t use Paypal due to the fees charged and find my merchant account set up much cheaper. I am sure this would be beneficial to others that have online payments set up through web sites and are already paying fees for the MIGS (or similar) service.

Thanks

Is there a way for us to be able to have a page on our website generate an invoice from xero and then generate the code for paypal for someone to online pay right then?

Basically I’m looking for fully automated website processing. Can it be done now standard or with custom programing? If not, do you have a planned time for something like this? Last, if not do you have a product referral that will fit my need?

Thank you for Xero for the great customer service.

I think you could do a better job than this. This isn’t integration at all, it’s a poor quality proof of concept demo. It should never have made it into final release as it is completely useless.

Eg somebody pays me $100. Two days later this is refunded. The original $100 received transaction is not imported BUT the refund transaction two days later is. This makes my PayPal balance $100 out of sync and the refund has to be deleted manually making it so that the transaction never occurred.

Why is this? If I purchase something using PayPal and there isn’t enough funds in my PayPal account, the money taken from our bank acc or card still goes through PayPal and shows on the PayPal history.

The funds go Credit Card/Bank -> PayPal (-> PayPal alt currency) -> Supplier.

If we only have part of the funds in PayPal, then only the balance needed to complete the transaction will be taken from the bank account. However, Xero still imports this transaction, but only the part where the funding source is the PayPal balance making it even harder to reconcile as the amounts have got to be adjusted.

The PROBLEM is that Xero imports both the initial order authorisation record in PayPal AND the ultimate payment (on dispatch) and hence TWO entries are fed into XERO for each single event.

I’m told the XERO team is working to solve this, but I think you should highlight this issue in your help pages on PayPal feeds.

I look forward to seeing the solution soon (manually having to delete every second entry in imported bank statements is so un-XERO like!

Cheers

Adding & setting up your PayPal account in Xero

How do I accept online payments from my customers?

Thanks for the feedback.