How to link to a standard PayPal account?

Can you explain how to use the redirect (?) to link to a standard PayPal account in V4?

Step 1: Login to PayPal
2: Click on Merchant Services
3: Under the Create Buttons heading, click on the My Saved Buttons
4: Click on Create New Button on the right side of the screen
5: Select Buy Now button in the drop-down
6: Under Item Name - Registration
7: Under Item ID - Winter2011
8: Price = $85
9: Currency = USD
10: Everything else can stay with defaults - Click Create Button
11:Click on the Action drop-down for your new button and select View Code
12: Click on the Email tab then on the Select Code button below it. This is the url needed to link the Form to your PayPal account.
13: Cut and paste the url into the ChronoForms V4 event Redirect User / Target URL
14: Save and test the link

Hi chuckmiester,

This will work OK as long as none of the PayPal info is variable. If the price, or invoice number, etc. are variable then you'll be better off using the ReDirect URL action (in the CURL group) to build the URL. Note that you still need the ReDirect User action after this to do the Redirection!

The ReDirect URL action configuration is very similar to the CFV3 version described in The ChronoForms book except that both fixed and variable parameters go into the same Param/Fields map box.
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Put the PayPal URL in the Target URL box.

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

Put the parameters you want in the Param/Fields map box. Use {input_name} for values in form the form or calculated and added to the form data. Put one paramater on each line; the order of the lines does not matter e.g.:

cmd=_xclick
amount={amount}
item_name=Purchase from XYZ.com
notify_url=http://mydomain.com/index.php? . . .
currency=USD
tax=3.75

The parameter name before the = sing must be a valid PayPal parameter name

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Bob

Thanks Bob! But the kids are all registered one at a time at a fixed amount. It keeps the records straight and makes the process simple. I am still working on getting the double drop-down to work. And loading records from a table. But the form is starting to work and I thank you for your help. I bought you a beer, the first of many as I learn your software!

Hi chuckmiester999,

I think I answered this in another thread.

Bob