alexjamesbrown
26th June 2009, 15:04
Hi,
im currently developing a kind of hotel booking site, where by people can book accomodation etc...
I need to be able to charge a deposit for the booking...
I know i can use paypal to process it, but i was wondering if there was a way to transfer funds from my (the websites) paypal account, to a vendor / hotels bank account, automatically... using the API (so i don't have to get involved)
that way, in each vendor or hotels acount, they could click "withdraw deposits" for example, and it would bacs it to their bank account?
i don't want to require them to have a paypal account as a pre-requisite for using the service
Failing that, i know that the large hotel sites (booking.com for example) pre-authorise the card, then if you don't show, they charge your card.
i've looked into this with paypal, however it seems that they only let you do it for a short number of days in advance.
Any ideas anyone?
im currently developing a kind of hotel booking site, where by people can book accomodation etc...
I need to be able to charge a deposit for the booking...
I know i can use paypal to process it, but i was wondering if there was a way to transfer funds from my (the websites) paypal account, to a vendor / hotels bank account, automatically... using the API (so i don't have to get involved)
that way, in each vendor or hotels acount, they could click "withdraw deposits" for example, and it would bacs it to their bank account?
i don't want to require them to have a paypal account as a pre-requisite for using the service
Failing that, i know that the large hotel sites (booking.com for example) pre-authorise the card, then if you don't show, they charge your card.
i've looked into this with paypal, however it seems that they only let you do it for a short number of days in advance.
Any ideas anyone?