Simple solution to integrate PayPal on ASP.NET MVC site

Question

There are many solutions/products that PayPal provides for websites to integrate with PayPal payment. I would like to know what's the simplest or easiest solution to integrate PayPal into ASP.NET MVC web applications. Which solution I should use? It would be helpful if someone who had the done this before can share his or her experience. Thanks.

Answer 1

Recently I implemented a PayPal 'Buy Now' button in a ASP.NET MVC Razor view. In the end the button is just a HTML form that is posted to the PayPal website. However, it took me some time to find out which hidden form fields were required, and which optional fields I could also use to further configure the payment process. I have published my experiences on my blog: http://buildingwebapps.blogspot.com/2012/01/single-item-paypal-buttons-and.html. There you will also find the source code for an MVC Html helper method that makes rendering single-item PayPal buttons less work.