In my application I will have function, which will pay TO my users every month.
What kind of preapproval I should have ? Is this neccessary thing ?
Can you recommend me any good gem for this ?
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In my application I will have function, which will pay TO my users every month.
What kind of preapproval I should have ? Is this neccessary thing ?
Can you recommend me any good gem for this ?
PreApprovals are for collecting money (i.e. they pay you). For sending money, you need to look at adaptive payments, in particular the Implicit Payment feature.
It allows you to programmatically send money out of your own account (i.e. You pay them).
PayPal currently doesn’t have any product that automates this, so you need to write a script on your side that will make that API call once a month for all your users.
Check out page 25 for more info. [ https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/PP_AdaptivePayments.pdf ]
As far as a Gem goes, i don’t believe there is one explicitly for this, however you could probably tweak ActiveMerchant (Or at least use it as a starting point) for this purpose, as it’s basically a Pay API call, with the exception that you specify yourself as sender.