SL RL payment links

I'm about to try to script a payment method that will allow for example tiers to be paid via Paypal without leaving SL or opening an internet browser, but need to check with the gurus whether this is a method that is plausible.

I want to allow avs the ability to click on a prim to pay me via Paypal. I am going to base this payment method on Paypal's fastpay method (may be a different name, cant remember right now) that is the system where someone simply emails my PP account with their payment and details. For now I am going to simply try 'touch' and 'chat' the payment detail, and the prim needs to email the owner (me) separately of the payment and the avatar who touched as an audit trial
What I need to ask is if this has been tried by anyone before? Is there any issues I should look out for?

I see a lot of threads covering encryption too, but I am not concerned at this time as the payment is made from someone to me using a descrete channel, and not openly declared as such. Is this a wrong assumption to make?

Thanks for any assistance and advice!

There is one way money can flow in world: from one av account(Pay or Buy) to another av account(Donation or payment to av owned object).
You want money to flow from one real life account to another. I don't see how that can be accomplished by clicking an object.

Yeah, Dora, having spent some time on PPal's site and some related forums, it seems the method of sending PPal money via email won't be very practical as the source email address needs to be the PPal registered address apparently, whilst messages emailed from SL won't have their headers, and therefore permissions set correctly.

I am now working on L$ to US$ payments instead, as it is still within the parameters of what I want to achieve. I am aware of how payments work between avs, but thanks for the headsup. Maybe I can achieve a similar result using this new approach.

made a whmcm pluging to convert paypal payments to L$, simply took the amount the bill was for and multiplied it by a pre defined amount like:

LX = 280 // exhcange rate
Dollar = 10 //usd
LDollar = Dollar * LX

set fastpay to 1 value of LDollar wich is 2,800 in this case and on pay, it sends an http back to a php script that marks the bill as payed with L$

wanted to post it on the wiki for the past hours as open source with terminal but it has some sql problems (figures)

WHooootttt, Alicia, you give me hope! Im going right back and trying my hand at it again! Thank you and when you manage to post it, let me know. Im a newbie with this stuff and any guidence will be great too. If I do stumble on something that works, I'll post it here too.

finally figured out how to add it and not on the site of my choosing but alas...

the script i`ve posted is old and abit inefficient, as stated on it
it is based on the whmcs portal where you can create invoices/bills for users, what i did is hijack the database to use an unused (while creating it) gateway so it shows as an L$ payment

this does NOT proccess paypal requests, just converts and marks USD invoices as payed within whmcs!

the code is also abit of a mess and perhaps hard to understand as it was in my learning period aswell
planning to make a more friendly general http module with/without encryption now that mono is released to reduce it to 1 script when i get around to it

not good with writing manuals. let alone of stuff i can hardly remember


edit: almost forgot the url... doh...
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/WHMcs_SecondLife_plugin

Thanks Alicia. I think in the end this is a good foundation for me to work from. It allows me to link an inworld payment to external code, and thats a start. Will post back here the result if any

no problem

if you can share abit more like if it`s for modifying existing software then i can take a peak at it and perhaps come with a better suggestion then just look at that plugin for an idea

been picking my brains to find something usefull to do for some time and only managed to alter a couple of lines in my toy befor returning to bored status lol