Paypal problem

I created a form and used the Paypal redirect - Trial(2) to send Paypal payments. I used a drop down menu for people to select a membership type. The field name for the membership type box is "mbrshp_type". In the options box of the drop down configuration I have the following:

10=Individual $10
100=Patron $100
300=Patron King $300
500=Patron Master $500
1000=Patron Grandmaster $1000

I set up a sandbox account at Paypal and tried out the form. All seems to work well except that the amounts being sent to Paypal are not correct.

In the Paypal redirect configuration I have "Item name field(*)" = mbrshp_type and "Amount field(*)" = Options

I evidently have something misconfigured. Can you point me in the right direction to get the correct payment to paypal?

Thank you!!

Hi chriso0258 ,

The 'Trial' version randomises the amounts. It's fine for development but to use on a Live site you need to get a 'Full' version from Max.

Bob

Ok. I'm very confused. What is Paypal pro? The client I'm building this form for has a Paypal account. When we go live, will this work with that? If not, what is this other version you referred to? How much does it cost?

I also created a drop down price list from my own paypal merchant account and I included it in my Chronoform using custom code on_submit, but when I clicked the button, it took me no where. Why wouldn't Paypals html form script work?

Hi chriso0258,

The PayPal Pro info is here at PayPal It's an 'advanced' service that you can use if you want to take credit card payments on your site without sending the user to PayPal to confirm the payment.

The ChronoForms Payment Gateway plug-ins that Max supplies with the released version are all 'trial' versions that randomise the amounts. You need to buy a 'full' or 'non-trial' version from him for use on a live site. The price on the Subscriptions tab (above) is $30 for the old PayPal and ANet plug-ins; I imagine that the price is the same for the new action sets.

If you don't need PayPal Pro or IPN then you can manage standard PayPal payments using the ReDirect URL and ReDirect User actions which are both free and included in the release.

The PayPal HTML code will work OK in a ChronoForm provided that you turn off the ChronoForms form tags (nested form tags don't work). However the form will be submitted directly to PayPal, ChronoForms will never see the results and so cannot do anything with them.

Bob

Bob

Thanks GreyHead for clearing things up. I will look into those options.

I looked at the std version and that will not be an option as we don't have/need a Paypal pro acct.

I looked at the redirect url and redirect user. They both just require a url.

1. What's the difference. Do I need to use both?
2. Can I pass the payment information to Paypal using these methods? If so, how is that configured? Do I need to load another element/action?

Thanks for your patience as I learn to use this component.

Hi chriso0258,

The ReDirect URL action builds a URL containing the data you want to send to PayPal; the ReDirect User action actually does the ReDirection.

There's an example in this post

Bob

The ReDirect URL action builds a URL containing the data you want to send to PayPal; the ReDirect URL action actually does the ReDirection.

Thanks Bob. I'll give this a try. In the post you referred to, you said they also needed to use the Redirect user action as well. Is that what you meant above where I bold your quote? Do I use the same URL as in the CURL redirect?

Hi,

There is a "PayPal redirect" action under the "Payment gateways" section in the V4 wizard, you can use directly (after configuring it of course).

Regards,
Max

Hi chriso0258,

Yes I should have written that the ReDirect User action redirects the user. (I've corrected my earlier post).

Bob

Ok. After going through some Paypal documentation, here is what I've done and what problem I'm still having.

1. I created some html hidden fields on my form. These names are Paypal HTML Variables for Individual Items.

Hidden variable 1 is configured:

Field Name - item_name
Field ID - item_name
Default value - Individual Membership

Hidden variable 2 is configured:

Field Name - amount
Field ID - amount
Default value - 10

Hidden variable 3 is configured:

Field Name - cmd
Field ID - cmd
Default value - _s-xclick

Hidden variable 4 is configured:

Field Name - business
Field ID - business
Default value - tnches_1337019634_biz@jesusmylord.org (this is my sandbox business email)

On the "Events" page, I've configured the ReDirect URL as follows:

Target URL - https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi- bin/webscr" method="post"
Params/Fields map - business=business
                    cmd=cmd
                    item_name=item_name
                    amount=amount

And the ReDirect User event:

Target URL - https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi- bin/webscr" method="post"

I log into both my sandbox account and sandbox business acct. as per Paypals instructions. When I submit the form, I get the following error:

You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.

Is this a Paypal issue or do I have something misconfigured? All the variables and the URL are right out of their Sandbox user guide.

Bob, I'm beginning to think it's worth paying for the Paypal redirect. There are two options under "Subscriptions". Purchase and validate. Which one provides the Paypal redirect plugin?

Ok. After going through some Paypal documentation, here is what I've done and what problem I'm still having.

1. I created some html hidden fields on my form. These names are Paypal HTML Variables for Individual Items.

Hidden variable 1 is configured:

Field Name - item_name
Field ID - item_name
Default value - Individual Membership

Hidden variable 2 is configured:

Field Name - amount
Field ID - amount
Default value - 10

Hidden variable 3 is configured:

Field Name - cmd
Field ID - cmd
Default value - _s-xclick

Hidden variable 4 is configured:

Field Name - business
Field ID - business
Default value - tnches_1337019634_biz@jesusmylord.org (this is my sandbox business email)

On the "Events" page, I've configured the ReDirect URL as follows:

Target URL - https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi- bin/webscr" method="post"
Params/Fields map - business=business
                    cmd=cmd
                    item_name=item_name
                    amount=amount

And the ReDirect User event:

Target URL - https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi- bin/webscr" method="post"

I log into both my sandbox account and sandbox business acct. as per Paypals instructions. When I submit the form, I get the following error:

You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.

Is this a Paypal issue or do I have something misconfigured? All the variables and the URL are right out of their Sandbox user guide.

Bob, I'm beginning to think it's worth paying for the Paypal redirect. There are two options under "Subscriptions". Purchase and validate. Which one provides the Paypal redirect plugin?

Hi chriso,

What about trying the PayPal redirect coming with the default installer to see if it works for you ? would save your time and effort🙂

Regards,
Max

Hi chriso0258,

The obvious thing that is not working is the target url:

https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi- bin/webscr" method="post"

this should be just

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

The method part is just junk here.

You should also leave the box in the ReDirect User action empty though I don't think that causes a problem it will just be overwritten.

Lastly I think that the Tip in the ReDirect URL action is wrong. You need to use {} curly brackets round input names otherwise they are taken to be string values. See the example I linked to. The fields/params box is then like this:

business=tnches_1337019634_biz@jesusmylord.org
cmd=_s-xclick
item_name={item_name}
amount={amount}

Bob

Thank you Greyhead!!😀 . I finally got a basic form to work with paypal's sandbox. One problem I had was after implementing your changes (which had nothing to do with your changes), I got an error message from Paypal saying that not enough information had been passed. To make a long story short, I changed the cmd value from _s-xclick to _xclick and everything worked fine.

It's been a long post. Thank you for your patience and help.

On to other posts...🤣