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ghorsey
#1 Posted : Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:29:36 PM
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I have a PayPal account which is going to be used for donations from the users of my website to keep the site up and running. Being that this account is only going to be used for this, I would like to be able to expose how much money is in the account so that the users will be able to see when there is a need to donate. Does paypal have any sort of stream that I can request (programmatically) which will return the amount of money currently in my paypal account?
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:01:03 PM
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We dont have that but you could write a farily simple script which reads amounts from IPN and increments a balance in a log file. See http://www.paypal.com/ipn

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#3 Posted : Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:18:13 PM
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kk thank you, I will look into this.
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#4 Posted : Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:30:52 PM
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Checking incremental logs would be fine, but what about when I transfer money out of my account, to pay for something? If I'm only tracking money coming in, it will eventually seem like I have more cash in my donation acct than I actually do.


Also there was a thread about Web services. Here would be another prime situation to have one. With a web service you could provide a live feed of your data to developers like myself. Pass in credentials, and get a live feed of how much cash you have in your paypal acct.

Thank you for your response.
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#5 Posted : Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:40:41 PM
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That's correct that you wouldn't be able to easily track the funds leaving the account but wouldn't you only be showing contributions received?

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