PayPal Pro Setup

[10thWay]

Hello,

I read through the setup guide described by Bruce:

How to configure callbacks on PayPal : ( this is for both 'PayPal Website Payments' and for 'PayPal Website Payments Pro') - Version : 8.5.1 and above

On the Merchant interface (logged in to www.paypal.com)

- go to 'Edit profile | Website payment preferences | Auto Return' and set to 'off'.

- Open the {Site Dir}\CommonOCC\OCCPayPalTemplate.pl with a text editor like notepad

- After line:
AddPostValues ('&', 'bn', 'ActinicCat_Cart_ST', $ALWAYS, $NOENCODE); # hard code the provider

- insert the following line:
AddPostValues ('&', 'rm', '2', $ALWAYS, $NOENCODE); # Set form send method to POST

- save the file and exit editor

'Upload' for your site and PayPal should now be properly configured.

I run Actinic Business + V. 9.03, do I still need to take the above steps?
The reason I'm asking is because I don't notice any difference, it looks like it's working with or without the above modifications.

What are the above steps meant to do?

Thanks in advance for all your help & Merry Christmas to everybody.

Matt

[TraceyG]

Hi Matt,

If it's working without the modifications then probably best to leave it as it is. I'm trying to find out from development what it's all about so I can update the guide and make it a bit clearer.

[10thWay]

Thanks Tracy, do let me know please. And a happy new year to you!

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Development have informed me that these instructions need to be applied because Paypal made a change to their system a while ago that stopped the 'return to merchant' button from appearing. I've requested that the perl change gets added into the software by default in a future release and will update the instructions accordingly when it has been done.

It may be best to apply the changes even though you say it works without it just to make sure that your customers do return to your site so that they get their confirmation emails sent out.

[10thWay]

Thanks Tracey, your help is much appreciated.

[10thWay]

Hello Tracey,

One more question, I went to disable the Auto Return for Website Payments
in the PayPal Pro Website Payment Preferences as described in Bruce's guide.
As soon as I do that a warning comes up:

You have not turned on Auto Return. You must turn on Auto Return in order for Payment Data Transfer to work properly.

Shall I turn off Payment Data Transfer as well?

If I don't, I noticed that the Auto Return feature switches itself back on automatically.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[TraceyG]

Hi Matt,

Shall I turn off Payment Data Transfer as well?

Yes it should work ok with PDT off.

[10thWay]

Thanks Tracey, will do.