Paypal requires buyer to have account

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I know this may be a Paypal question, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

I'm using J1.5 and CFv4, using a form to submit payment through Paypal. Everything is working as expected, except the Paypal landing page only has two options: Login with Paypal account, or Create a new Paypal account. There isn't an option for the buyer to pay without creating an account.

It must be something in the way CF sends the request, because I have two other paypal components I've been testing with and both send to the same Paypal account however the landing page is different, it includes an option called "Don't have Paypal account".

I've tried sending the variables: LANDINGPAGE=Billing and SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole but it made no difference.

luxhodge · Accepted Answer

Just trying to save someone the run around I went on with this same issue.  I talked to PayPal tech support.  They said that the problem is exclusively a Google Chrome issue.  When you are using the action the first time (like a customer would), you will get the option to checkout as a guest or login or create an account. However, if you are testing stuff like I have been, chrome will recognize that you have been to PayPal before and think you want to login.  Thus it will hide the checkout with guest option or the result is the checkout as guest option is not shown.  I tried dumping cookies in the browser, but that doesn't work. It has no effect.  Anyway, all other browsers should work fine, but if you are testing, you still need to clear cookies each time.  As a bonus I learned that the IPN response from PayPal is 30 seconds or less.  I have not seen that written anywhere, but that is what the PayPal guy said.  Cool.

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