Blocking eChecks in PayPal

Question

I'm currently testing Express Checkout, Payflow Advanced (hosted pages) and Payflow Pro (transparent redirect). I'm looking for a way to block eChecks.

The obvious solution would be to go into my PayPal account to Profile > My Selling Tools > Block payments. Click checkbox for Block the following payments: Pay with eCheck or German bank transfer for all website payments except eBay. But that has no effect in any of the 3 scenarios! Is that because I'm in test mode? Will this work in Live mode?

Otherwise I've got to do it in code.

In Express Checkout - using NVP you can use

PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ALLOWEDPAYMENTMETHOD=InstantPaymentOnly 

In Express checkout SDK you can use

paymentDetails.AllowedPaymentMethod = AllowedPaymentMethodType.INSTANTPAYMENTONLY;

In Express Checkout for Payflow (Payflow pro) I tried the following but it does not work

ECSetRequest setRequest = new ECSetRequest(...);
setRequest.PaymentType = "instantonly";

And for Payflow Advanced, when I create the token I used the following NVP which also did not work

PAYMENTTYPE=instantonly

So I'm 1 for 3 on coding. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Strange,

    ECSetRequest setRequest = new ECSetRequest(...);
    setRequest.PaymentType = "InstantOnly";

Should work according to the ECSetRequest.GenerateRequest(); ..

    this.RequestBuffer.Append(PayflowUtility.AppendToRequest("PAYMENTTYPE", this.mPaymentType));

However, I cannot find anything in any of the Payflow documents to suggest that you can pass PAYMENTTYPE, it seems so only be in the responses.

My testing has resulted in not being able to get PAYMENTTYPE to work with Payflow at all.

This will only work when using the MerchantSDK or talking directly to the Merchant NVP servers.