Selling Tickets to an Event with PayPal Standard

Report · Nov 05, 2012

How do I sell tickets to an event using PayPal Standard?

I have the events set up as items in a web app. Client does not need event capacity feature. They use PayPal Standard and I have set-up the eCommerce payment gateway with their id and token.

My client needs a web form with the following requirements:

Ticket prices are varied ($12 adults, $10 Seniors, etc.)
Purchaser should be able to select several ticket types (4 adults, 1 senior, etc.)
Option to donate an additional amount to the cause
Total amount to be passed through to PayPal Standard
Data to be collected: name, address, phone, email, number of tickets purchased and what type
Client wants purchase to be stored in CRM
Client wants to be able to run a custom report on ticket purchases (total sold and to whom)

I know how to create web forms - just haven't done one with payment and variables that will create a total price. Any suggestions?

Report · Nov 05, 2012

Hi There,

You can not use a non-seamless payment gateway outside of the eCommerce. If your using web apps and custom web forms you will not be able to use paypal standard to accept those payments.
You will need a seamless payment gateway and then you can build web apps to have the information and custom web form that is populated based on the information and tags of a web app. You likely will need javascript to enhance the form as well.

But the first point will halt you in what your doing.

Report · Nov 07, 2012

Thanks, Liam. That was helpful. I have convinced my client to upgrade their PayPal account. Now to hold up my end of the bargain and make it all work.

Report · Nov 19, 2012

My client has upgraded to a seamless payment gateway and I have tested the payment form. All working. That was easy. Check that obstacle off.

Next, I created a Web App called Public Events. One of the events on December 8th will need ticket sales, not all events need ticketing. I created a field in the Web App for ticket pricing so the client can change the amount of each ticket type. Here is a link to the web app item details http://screencast.com/t/nJrbfe80xb

I also created a web form with billing and credit card information and some custom fields for selecting how many tickets in each category they would like to purchase (i.e., adult, senior/student and child). There is also a field for an optional donation amount.

What I need at this point is for the form to create the total amounts and place it in two areas - the Total in the Ticket Type field and then at the bottom in the credit card area. What is needed to make this happen? I know it must be scripting. What type of scripting and is it something I can do myself or do I need to hire someone? I'm good with HTML, CSS and following instructions but can't say I'm proficient at javascript or jquery.

Here is the web page http://www.marinchorus.org/events-for-the-public/mgc-25th-holiday-concert-test

I will need to create a custom report for my client to print out for the event: who bought the tickets and how many.

I'm wishing I could have conviinced my client to go with a 3rd party ticketing service but they were adamant that is stay in bc.

~ MaryH