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Hello,

How do I link the form to a PayPal?

What is the PayPal api? How does it work? How do I get it to work?


Basically, I want my user to enter some information, Name, Email, Text, Etc... into a form, then once they click submit, they are redirected to the payment page where the page a fee. I know how to create a form, it's just linking it to the PayPal page which I find confusing.

Any help?

Or would it be best to create a form, then once the form is completed set a redirect url to a page which has all the PayPal buttons.


So it would be FORM >>>> REDIRECT >>>> PAYMENT PAGE >>>> PAYPAL :mrgreen:


I think this would work, would it?

Hi geetech,

If you have a plain ordinary PayPal account then use the ReDirect Plugin to transfer the user to PayPal after you ahve processed the form.

The ReDirect Plugin will let you match values from your form to the PayPal variables and also set up any constant data that doesn't change from form to form. Please see the Plugin Help Tab for some more info.

Bob

I am still confused and dont really get it. Could you kind explain the process step by step? or point me to another thread which covers this.

I am having no such joy. thanks very much.

Hi geetech,

a) Create your form adn get it working
b) In the Forms Manager check the box by your form and click the Redirect Plutin link from the column at the left.
c) On the URL parameters tab enter the PayPal URL
d) On the Plugin General Tab there is a block of text inputs matching the fields on your form and a text area at the bottom. In the text boxes enter the PayPal parameter name that matched that input from your form, leave it blank if you do not need to pass the info to PayPal. In the text area add any constant info that you need to pass to PayPal - like your account id. This is in the format parameter=value with each entry on a separate line.

Save and test - there is a debgug button on the URL Configuration tab that will output some helpful information and let you see the URL before it is passed to PayPal..

Bob

Hi, let me just say thank you very much for the support this is a First Class Service. 😀


I get it now, thanks.

For buy now products or service you just enter the PayPal full url:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=eeeeeeeethisisanexampleurl

and that it. Done.

However, for recurring payments and subscriptions the PayPal full url is

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

I assume PayPal get the attributes for the product in their form.

How do I get round this issue for the recurring and subscription?

Hi geetech,

The root url is the same in both cases https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr

The cmd variable has different values _flow (and _subscription I guess)

I don't think you ever pass the session variable to PayPal, that is something they generate. Please check the PayPal docs for more info.

Bob

Thanks...

I still don't get fully understand but it's okay.

I will simply redirect my form to another web page that displays payment options. From here the user can select either to pay monthly or annually. I think this makes more sense.

So it will go to,

FORM>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PAYMENT OPTION PAGE>>>>>>>>>PAYPAL
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀


Thanks for the help!!

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