Payment Gateway Question

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I want to create a payment system which works like so:
1. the customer opts to make payment of say, £5.
2. he goes to the payment page.
3. he selects a drop down menu item, £5.
4. he then clicks pay
5. the customer makes payment (giving his card details) and completes the payment
My own website will not store any card or address details...only the customer’s name.

I currently have all of the above working using paypal, standard account.

However, I want the following to be done (and paypal standard account is not doing this right now)
6. once payment is taken, within a few seconds I want my website to be notified that payment has been made (including the amount).
7. this information is then stored on a database (this can be on my webserver on a third party’s)
8. my website can then get this new data from the database and display the customer’s new balance, to the customer.

The main problem I forsee is to get the customer’s payment (which he has just made), to be updated in the database.

What is the simplest way to achieve this?
Is this going to be complicated?
All programming shall be done by me, in javascript and asp.net.

Thanks
 
Hi Paypal IPN is what you need to use. You will need to setup a listener on your site to catch the messages as they arrive from paypal. There is an integration guide available here. :)
 
Thanks for the replies gents.
Is Paypal a decent payment gateway to use for taking payments or are their other companies which have better options?
I only chose Paypal because they are the most well-known for a small/start up business. Obviously if things take off, then I can look into getting a direct account with a bank (ie. no middle man).
 
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