PayPal: Recurring payments profile not created in Live
I am working with PayPal NVP to create a subscription based service on my website, I will accept payments through PayPal and the payment type will be recurring payments.
I'm using the following PayPal method:
//SetExpressCheckout
$sec_data = array(
'USER' => PAYPAL_API_USERNAME,
'PWD' => PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD,
'SIGNATURE' => PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE,
'VERSION' => "95.0",
'METHOD' => "SetExpressCheckout",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT' => $total_amt,
'RETURNURL' => "<url_structure>",
'CANCELURL' => "<url_structure>",
'NOSHIPPING' => "1",
'SOLUTIONTYPE' => "Sole",
'LOGOIMG' => "<url_structure>",
'BRANDNAME' => "My Website",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_CURRENCYCODE' => "USD",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ITEMAMT' => $current_plan_price,
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_PAYMENTACTION' => "Sale",
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT0' => $current_plan_price,
'L_BILLINGTYPE0' => "RecurringPayments",
'L_BILLINGAGREEMENTDESCRIPTION0' => "You'll be billed USD ".$total_amt.".",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_DESC' => "You'll be billed USD ".$total_amt.".",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_CUSTOM' => "Thank you for your payment!",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_INVNUM' => "INV-".$invoice_num,
'NOTETOBUYER' => $current_plan_name,
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_PAYMENTREASON' => "None",
'EMAIL' => $email,
'LANDINGPAGE' => "Billing",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_TAXAMT' => $tax_amt,
'L_PAYMENTTYPE0' => "InstantOnly"
);
//GetExpressCheckoutDetails
$get_ec_data = array(
'USER' => PAYPAL_API_USERNAME,
'PWD' => PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD,
'SIGNATURE' => PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE,
'TOKEN' => $ec_token,
'METHOD' => "GetExpressCheckoutDetails",
'VERSION' => "95.0"
);
//DoExpressCheckoutPayment
$decp_data = array(
'USER' => PAYPAL_API_USERNAME,
'PWD' => PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD,
'SIGNATURE' => PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE,
'METHOD' => "DoExpressCheckoutPayment",
'TOKEN' => $ec_token,
'PAYERID' => $ec_response['PAYERID'],
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT' => $total_amt,
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_CURRENCYCODE' => "USD",
'PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ITEMAMT' => $total_amt,
'VERSION' => "95.0"
);
//CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile
$crpp_array = array(
'USER' => PAYPAL_API_USERNAME,
'PWD' => PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD,
'SIGNATURE' => PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE,
'VERSION' => "95.0",
'METHOD' => "CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile",
'TOKEN' => $ec_token,
'PROFILESTARTDATE' => $last_payment_date,
'DESC' => "You'll be billed USD ".$total_amt.".",
'BILLINGPERIOD' => "Month",
'BILLINGFREQUENCY' => "12",
'TOTALBILLINGCYCLES' => '0',
'AMT' => $total_amt,
'CURRENCYCODE' => "USD",
'EMAIL' => $get_cx_data['cx_email'],
'STREET' => "Bedford Ave",
'CITY' => "Brooklyn",
'STATE' => "New York",
'COUNTRYCODE' => "US",
'ZIP' => "11211"
);
//GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails
$grppd_array = array(
'USER' => PAYPAL_API_USERNAME,
'PWD' => PAYPAL_API_PASSWORD,
'SIGNATURE' => PAYPAL_API_SIGNATURE,
'VERSION' => "95.0",
'METHOD' => 'GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails',
'PROFILEID' => $get_crpp_response['PROFILEID']
);
Here are my PayPal functions:
function toPayPal($inputArray, $PayPalURL) {
$nvp_post_data_str = '';
foreach($inputArray as $key => $value) {
$nvp_post_data_str .= $key.'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}
$nvp_post_data_str = substr($nvp_post_data_str, 0, strlen($nvp_post_data_str) - 1);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $PayPalURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $nvp_post_data_str);
$httpResponse = curl_exec($ch);
//$httpResponse;
$httpResponse = explode('&', $httpResponse);
for($i = 0; $i < count($httpResponse); $i++) {
$temp_array = explode('=', $httpResponse[$i]);
$httpResponseArray[$temp_array[0]] = urldecode($temp_array[1]);
}
return $httpResponseArray;
}
I send the nvp data to PayPal like this:
toPayPal($nvp_data, "https://api-3t." .(PAYPAL_MODE == 'TEST' ? 'sandbox.paypal' : 'paypal'). ".com/nvp");
Now the problem is, everything seems to be working fine on the Sandbox, but in Live the recurring account is not created on my main PayPal account.
Did I miss anything? In addition, I don’t know if I need to install NVP SDK or something.
Additionally, in the sandbox, when I run print_r() on the response from GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails, PROFILESTARTDATE and NEXTPAYMENTDATE< /code> Are the same. Is this the problem?
Thank you all for taking the time.
