I'm using a stable beta of 3.1 now.  It may be worth asking.

cheers

Mark

Matt,

Now you've got me concerned with that last sentence "V3.1 will be available in just weeks, but I don’t have an exact date." I've been holding off launching our site until we can incorporate our design into V3.1. I'm up to 29 modified .asp files and I want to make sure all of the changes/additions are incorporated into the V3.1 files. I would hate to go live with the site and then have to turn around a week or two later and redo it because of V3.1 being released. Maybe you could start a thread "V3.1 Release Status" so those of us eager to use the new version would have a better understanding of your schedule.

Stuck, good point!

Espresso, Authorization allows you to verify the customer has the funds at thetime of purchase. Then you can review the order before issuing the capture(which actually transfers the money to your account).  Just note you needPayPal Website Payments Pro to use these options.  In v3.1 you will beable to capture, refund, void, and batch process PayPal Website Payments Proorders all from within your ProductCart control panel. We have also added aRisk Management section for PayPal that displays information about thetransaction and customer that will help you decide if it’s a real order. V3.1will be available in just weeks, but I don’t have an exact date.

Espresso, not sure but perhaps this will help.

When setting up PayPal, you can set this to 1st only "Authorize" the customers charge as they checkout, then you can do the final "Capture" of the funds after you have examined the order details.

Again, you don't need to send "payment requests"(manually or automatically).  Customerswant to pay at the time of purchase, so let them.  Just verify the funds in your PayPal accountbefore you ship.  So we recommend...

- PayPal Standard

- PayPal Website Payments Pro

- Not, payment requests

Let us know if you have any questions about using theseoptions. They should definitely work out better for you

Well we don't want anything automated since we would like to check the order first. 

I guess we must do it manually.  Thanks for the quick reply though

With PayPal Website Payments Standard the customer leavesthe store to pay with their PayPal account and then returns to the store fortheir order confirmation.

With PayPal Website Payments Pro the customer doesn’t leave the store and payswith a credit card.

With PayPal Express Checkout the customer leaves the store to select a paymentoption in PayPal, but then returns to complete their order at your store.

A Payment Request is something sent by email and isn’t effective so it’s nottypically included with an ecommerce package.  In other words, it’s notavailable because there is no need for it.  Let me know if I misunderstood the question.