PayPal has posted advance notice of enhancements to their service scheduled to roll out overnight from 9-10Jul08; hopefully this will go smoothly without any adverse incident, but if you notice anything weird going on with PayPal around that date and time, it's probably due to this rollout in progress during that period.
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PayPal Upcoming Site Enhancement Pre-Release Notes
* date 07-02-2008 04:13 PM
* author PayPal_Updates Administrator writes:
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- Schedule for Planned Enhancements
- Shipping Matrix Fixes
- Buyer Experience - API
- Direct Payments/ Recurring Payments Enhancements
- Documentation
- Contacting PayPal
Schedule for Planned Enhancements
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The schedule for the planned enhancements is as follows:
- Preview SandBox (https://www.beta-sandbox.paypal.com) - 6/30/2008
- Live PayPal site (https://www.paypal.com/) - 7/9/2008
- Production SandBox (https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/) - TBD
Shipping Matrix Fixes
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This fixes existing shipping address issues for Website Payments
Standard and Express Checkout.
Sellers are required to pass the Address1, City, and Zip code fields
for US addresses.
Non-US addresses require the Country field as well.
Buyer Experience - API
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This enhances the Express Checkout flow in the following areas:
- Display tax and shipping information earlier in the Express
Checkout flow.
- Display shopping cart details in Express Checkout flow (similar to
Website Payments Standard).
- Provide shipping carrier and tracking information.
Direct Payments / Recurring Payments Enhancements
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This improves merchant experience and brings parity with VeriSign
Payment Services Recurring Billing product.
To take advantage of these improvements, merchants must update their
API integration. This enables them to do the following:
- Set separate start dates for trial and regular payment periods.
- Update total number of payment periods for both trial and regular
payment periods if the trial payment period has not completed.
Aggregate optional amount, aggregate amount and final payment due
date fields are not returned when merchant obtains profile details.
Documentation
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The following documents have been updated:
- Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
- Express Checkout Integration Guide
- Merchant Gift Certificates Guide
- Virtual Terminal User�s Guide (CA)
- PayPal SOAP API Developer Reference
- PayPal Name-Value Pair API Developer Guide and Reference
To access the latest PayPal documentation, go to the PayPal
Integration Center at
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/icdocumentation.html
Contacting PayPal
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If you have questions, contact PayPal Merchant Technical Support at:
https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/iccontact-support.html
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[1] Notification - PayPal Live Site Scheduled Enhancements - 2008-07-09
* date 07-02-2008 04:12 PM
* author PayPal_Updates Administrator writes:
body PayPal, Inc.
Merchant Technical Services Notification
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[1] Notification
07/02 3:35 PM PDT (07/02 11:35 PM BST)
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This notification is to inform you of the following scheduled activity.
(AP)
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SCHEDULED ENHANCEMENTS DETAILS
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Service:
- PayPal Live Site
Affected Product(s):
- PayPal APIs
- Virtual Terminal
- Order Management (IPN / PDT)
- Masspay
- Website
- Business Overview : business.paypal.com
- Website Payments Standard
- History Page : https://history.paypal.com
- Subscriptions
Affected Implementation(s):
- Signature Authentication
- SSL Certificate Authentication
- SOAP
- NVP
Start Time:
- July 9, 2008 10:00 PM PDT (July 10, 2008 6:00 AM BST)
End Time:
- July 10, 2008 2:00 AM PDT (July 10, 2008 10:00 AM BST)
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Our Technology team does not expect any significant customer impact during this period, though some users may experience brief performance slow downs and some features may be intermittently unavailable.
We apologize for any impact caused by this maintenance.
Sincerely,
PayPal Merchant Technical Services
Contacting PayPal
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If you have questions, contact PayPal Merchant Technical Services by going to https://www.paypal.com/mts and filing a ticket under Contact Support.