Paypal integration

[Padaxes]

Hello, first time poster here looking for some advice about paypal integration.

Having looked at the paypal documentation adding the buttons etc to my own shopping cart code looks easy. That is until I look at the security side of it.

How important is encrypting the buttons like paypal suggests, the secure, .Net stuff is not something Ive ever done before and I`m having trouble with it.

The other option is manually verifying transactions, is this viable ? Does anyone else use this option and would you recommend it ?

Thanks in advance for any help / advice

[vincevincevince]

Provided that you manually check each payment before shipping, there's no need to encrypt the buttons. The reason for button encryption is to stop users editing the prices - so if you are happy to check the cart contents against your price list to double-check then encryption won't be required.

On the other hand, I do suggest encryption if possible, and rather than using .NET, I recommend using the PHP integration.