Paypal Buttons

[BrianCurtis]

Hi,

Done a search on this but can't find anything thus far.

Will be updating site soon to V8 but for now, I have had a few customers ask to buy some items using Paypal so I pasted the button code into the product page to give folks the option to click a Paypal button, but it generates a cgi script error page?

Any ideas why.

Thanks

Beej

[TraceyHand]

cant you just add Paypal as a payment option at checkout?
wouldn't that be easier?

[BrianCurtis]

cant you just add Paypal as a payment option at checkout?
wouldn't that be easier?

Hi Tracy,

No can do, because I only have V6.1.5 until I upgrade to V8 soon and it's not available. Simon is sending me a trial copy so I can test my site b4 committing as I have made many edits over the last 2 years so need to know it works OK.

Once I can confirm this on another PC I'll make the change but for now, I just had a large feature showing my work in step by step form in an international art magazine and some folks have visited the site asking to use Paypal so I thought, this will be OK for a couple of items until I upgrade. But like I said, it doesn't seem to like the script in the generated button code?

Here it is:

If you don't have a credit card or if you simply want to order with PayPal (no PayPal account needed) simply click the button below. The price included P&P.

!!<<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>>!!

There is also a lot of encrypted text but it wouldn't wrap in this post so I took it out.

Thanks

B

[TraceyHand]

ahh yeh..sorry, didn't realise Paypal wasn't in V6!
As an alternative then, could you modify a different payment method (invoice and payment before delivery, perhaps ) to say "Paypal payment sent separately" and make an email template detailing how to pay directly through Paypal?
I confess I'm not sure if you can pay by card that way though?

Oh, and it might be an idea to wrap your code in the code tags....it extends the page to China otherwise

I can't help with the code though, sorry

[Duncan Rounding]

This is the sort of thing that you should be using:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="Paypal_Login_Address">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="test product">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="12345">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="12.99">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="GB">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

[TypiO]

How to put the code?

Hello folks,

can you please tell me where to put the code that I can have payment option like in the business settings or how is it meant with putting the code somewhere to get some "button"??

Regards!

[Duncan Rounding]

I'm not sure if PP was available at all in v6.

You would have to configure pay-now buttons for every product as per my code quoted above. However you don't need Actinic at all if you just use pay-now buttons.

I think that Nochex was included however in 6.1.5 - that's another 'free' PSP option.

[pinbrook]

I just answered a similar Q here re V6 and PP

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=32581