PayPal Redirect amount=0

Hi ya Bob,
I have setup a paypal redirect. though my "amount" is always coming up as zero (0) though everything else is fine.

This is private content

In my amount field, I have "costInput".
Any idea what i have done wrong?

Kind Regards

Ben

Hi Ben,

costInput looks correct - the $sign might cause a problem, though I would still expect the amount to show up in the PayPal URL

Please take a Form Backup using the icon in the Forms Manager and post it here and I'll take a closer look.

Bob

HI Bob, thanks very much

Regards

Ben

Hi,

Did you try the amount without the dollar sign ?

Best regards,
Max

HI ya Max,
Originally i did, the just put it in after Bob suggested that may be it... still no go. I even tried putting it in under a custom code. Doing that, made the whole "amount=0" disappear altogether.

Hi Ben,

In the Amount field of the PayPal ReDirect action you have $costInput - that should be just the input name i.e. costInput without the $

Bob

PS I also notice that you have an ipn URL in the Return URL box - that probably isn't what you need, the Return URL is the place that the User is returned to after the purchase (the IPN URL is for the private transaction confirmations between your site and PayPal).

Hi Bob, As mentioned previously, The $ has only just gone in when you suggested it. At the time of posting this topic, it wasn't in there. not that it made any difference

Thanks for letting me know about the return url. i will fix that up🙂

Hi Ben,

The $ in the amount field is definitely a problem - but not the one that I was talking about, that was the $ in the amount returned from the form input.

I'll take another look.

Bob

Ohh you were right AGAIN.. haha.. i removed the "$" and it works well. Thanks Bob and Max🙂

Hi Ben,

I can't work out where you are setting the value of costInput. I have checked that if I over-ride it with a value in the Event Switcher code then that amount is passed to PayPal

<?PHP
If ($form->data['PaymentType'] == "0") {
  $form->data['costInput'] = 2;
  return "success";
}?>

So I suggest that you go back and debug your custom code before that to see exactly what is happening.

Bob

Through an ajax script sending it to the costInput.value

Hi Ben.

Then I guess that isn't working as the value isn't being passed on. Have you tried removing the $ sign from the value?

Bob