Why is no one answering my Posts?

[baesic2]

Is this a clicky thing or what I have ask and asked for help on serveral posts and no help has com in severals days.

 

It appears no one can help or just won't.

 

I feel maybe I have cross posted a couple weeks ago and I apologize for doing so, There are so many different topics and forums that seem to have the same topic in them and one would figure General support is where I start and then the contributions for that particular topic, i think this is where I am getting confused and cross posting.

[Gil_e_n]

Sometimes people who can help see your posts, sometimes they don't. Sometimes people ask vaguely enough that no one who could answer knows what the hell they're talking about. Sometimes, people ask really amazingly stupid questions that no one wants to bother answering. Not having seen your posts, I have no idea what applies to you.

[baesic2]

First of all thank you for replying, thank you very much. in some of the posts I have made have been detailed as to what I am looking for help in. I will try it again here.

 

here is a email order sent from Oscommerce. I will only paste the important details that are missing that I would like to see appear in the email.

 

Products

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1 x White Twill Cap & White T Shirt & Bumper Sticker Choice (mmp0051-01WB & mmp0040-01WB) = $36.97

(No Variables for instants the shirt size)

 

1 x WAKE UP AMERICA CD LZ001-01 (LZ0001-01) = $15.90

1 x Black W/White Lettering T_Shirt mmp0040-01BW (mmp0040-01BW) = $21.99

 

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Sub-Total: $74.86

Total: $74.86

 

Delivery Address

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The paypal Store owners copy in paypal account, I need the shpping address inserted into the paypal shopping cart details. This is not the same order but results are the same.

 

 

Transaction Details

 

 

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Shopping Cart Payment Received (ID # 3GH36464AK2739007)

 

 

 

 

Name:

James McGettigan (The sender of this payment is Verified)

Email:

[email protected]

Email Address That Payment Was Sent to:

 

[email protected]

 

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Shopping Cart Contents

 

 

Qty Item Options Price

1 White Twill Special mmp0051-01WB & mmp0040-01WB Bumper Sticker: MMP mmp0100-01

Size: Medium

$36.97 USD

Amount $36.97 USD

 

 

 

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Order Description:

Shopping Cart

Total Amount:

$36.97 USD

Shipping:

$7.99 USD

Handling:

$0.00 USD

 

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Total Amount:

$44.96 USD

Fee Amount:

-$1.60 USD

Net Amount:

$43.36 USD

 

 

 

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Invoice ID:

28

Custom:

2

Date:

Aug. 8, 2005

Time:

16:51:16 EDT

Status:

Completed

Seller Protection Policy:

Ineligible

 

 

 

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Shipping Address:

 

No Address Provided ( I need this to be sent to paypal for shipping purposes )

 

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Payment Type:

Instant

 

 

Tracking Information:

 

Provide your buyer with tracking and order status information. Learn More

 

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Description:

Shopping Cart

[♥Vger]

Okay - the reason you're not getting an answer to that post is that you're actually asking people to rewrite a sizeable portion of the shopping cart for you. It's not something that can be done in 5 minutes and would require a lot of work. Also, it's something you would like to have done, but it's not essential - your osCommerce site is not broken in any way.

 

Vger

[baesic2]

Okay - the reason you're not getting an answer to that post is that you're actually asking people to rewrite a sizeable portion of the shopping cart for you.  It's not something that can be done in 5 minutes and would require a lot of work.  Also, it's something you would like to have done, but it's not essential - your osCommerce site is not broken in any way.

 

Vger

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To me it's broken when the shipping address is not passed into paypal where we handle our shipping now.

 

It works in html format, it also passes the variables into paypal as well without problems.

 

See we include shipping our prices and use paypal to handle the shipping. Actually working with paypal developers, they to say that the shipping address should be passed along with the variables.

 

I am not a php programmer, but if someone could point me in the right direction as how the get these things passed to paypal I'll take the time to figure the rest out I may even ask more questions.

 

I am sorry if this getting to be to much for people. I guess I am now getting discouraged with the program and I'll probably dump it, for the simple reason it can't handle the passing of information to paypal.

 

To me what good is osCommerce if it can't do what is expected of it, and html format can. I am not being sarcastic I am trying to find out why this is not as easy as it appears it should be.

 

I do really like the feel and looks of osCommerce and would love to get it functional the way I want it to.

[FalseDawn]

Not quite sure what you are trying to say - your "requirements" are not worded very well, and that might be why nobody is answering.

 

Are you using paypal IPN? If so, there's an "addon" that will pass customer address details to Paypal. If you are not using IPN, you should be...

[baesic2]

Not quite sure what you are trying to say - your "requirements" are not worded very well, and that might be why nobody is answering.

 

Are you using paypal IPN? If so, there's an "addon" that will pass customer address details to Paypal. If you are not using IPN, you should be...

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Thank you FalseDawn

 

Yes I am using the offical osCommerce_PayPal_IPN I have search hard for an add on that would do just this. I have tried several without good results.

 

No matter what I try I cannot get the shiiping information into the paypal information and this is currently how we handle our shipping.

 

Thanks for the time you are taking with me now.

 

For now I will be happy just getting the shipping info passed through to paypal, then i will work at variables passed through to paypal.

 

Another question

 

If I send the html format i currently use to pass this information would it help in anyway towards making a mod for this?

 

I use scripts and forms to pass the info in pure html

 

It is true I am not good at get across what I want to say here. Boy I need lots of help.

[FalseDawn]

So you've tried the form prepopulator here?

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...,all/search,ipn

 

If so, why exactly didn't it do what you are after?

[baesic2]

So you've tried the form prepopulator here?

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...,all/search,ipn

 

If so, why exactly didn't it do what you are after?

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Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly yes I did and it did not pass the shipping information through to paypal so i removed it. which was all I was looking for it to do.

[baesic2]

So you've tried the form prepopulator here?

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...,all/search,ipn

 

If so, why exactly didn't it do what you are after?

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I am going to give it another try and see if works this time.

[wizardsandwars]

That contribtuion works fine. It passes the customers shipping addres to paypal, and pre-populates the paypal 'create an account' form.

 

It does not populate the customers shipping address if the customer elects to purchase through paypal without creating an account. Currently, paypal does not permit you to pass the shipping information to the shipping address form if the customer elects to purchase without using a paypal acocunt.

[baesic2]

That contribtuion works fine. It passes the customers shipping addres to paypal, and pre-populates the paypal 'create an account' form.

 

It does not populate the customers shipping address if the customer elects to purchase through paypal without creating an account. Currently, paypal does not permit you to pass the shipping information to the shipping address form if the customer elects to purchase without using a paypal acocunt.

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I have not installed PWA as of yet . I contribution at a time. LOL

 

So that should still work correct?

I installed it once again and the shipping information in paypal still does not show up.

 

Wizard I can pass all that information through to paypal in html format.

 

Also our customers at present don't need an account to make purchases either.

 

On our html site we don't have account records. So it must work. I can send you the html file i use to do it in html format.

[wizardsandwars]

I have not installed PWA as of yet . I contribution at a time. LOL

 

I never said anything about the PWA contributrion for osC. Re-read my post. I was talking about the create account at paypal.

 

I installed it once again and the shipping information in paypal still does not show up.

 

By default, when you create a paypal account, the address you provide is by default, your shipping address.

 

This contributions pre-populates the paypal account creation form, essentially passing the shipping address to paypal. The customer still has to complete the paypal account creation though, by clicking on the 'continue checkout' button.

[baesic2]

I never said anything about the PWA contributrion for osC. Re-read my post. I was talking about the create account at paypal.

By default, when you create a paypal account, the address you provide is by default, your shipping address.

 

This contributions pre-populates the paypal account creation form, essentially passing the shipping address to paypal. The customer still has to complete the paypal account creation though, by clicking on the 'continue checkout' button.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Yes I am doing that completing the order through paypal and I am too the customer and store owner. when I go into my paypal account and no shipping address shows up I am screwed and can not ship through paypal. this is my problem at the time, as for variables there in oscomm so is the shipping info, however if the shipping adress is not there how am I to ship through paypal.

 

Thanks everyone I am out of here.

 

I am discouraged with osCommerce, it's nice but it doesn't do for me what it must for you. Good Luck I was going donate a sizable sum to the project but it does me no good. I am going to try for the rest of this week to get the infornmation passed to paypal if not away I go.

 

I feel failure at this time..

[Iggy]

I was going donate a sizable sum to the project but it does me no good.

 

Perhaps this sizable sum would be better spent hiring a developer to make a paypal module to your taste which you could then release to the osC community?

 

Maybe not. Good luck.

 

Iggy

[Guest]

There is also the chance that the PayPal site has some help. They, afterall, want all the business they can get from osC shops.

 

just my $.02

 

jlee

(similarly frustrated)

 

Yes I am doing that completing the order through paypal and I am too the customer and store owner. when I go into my paypal account and no shipping address shows up I am screwed and can not ship through paypal. this is my problem at the time, as for variables there in oscomm so is the shipping info, however if the shipping adress is not there how am I to ship through paypal.

 

Thanks for trying I think zencart is my next choice.

 

Thanks everyone I am out of here.

 

I am discouraged with osCommerce, it's nice but it doesn't do for me what it must for you. Good Luck I was going donate a sizable sum to the project but it does me no good. I am going to try for the rest of this week to get the infornmation passed to paypal if not away I go.

 

I feel failure at this time..

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[wizardsandwars]

Every paypal account ever created has a default shipping address.

 

If somone makes a paypal purchase through your website, and through paypal, then there is a shipping address associated with it.

 

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm looking at a very long list of paypal payments from purchases from an osc store, and every single one of them has a shipping address.

 

ZenCart does the exact same thing.

[Guest]

Every paypal account ever created has a default shipping address.

 

If somone makes a paypal purchase through your website, and through paypal, then there is a shipping address associated with it.

 

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm looking at a very long list of paypal payments from purchases from an osc store, and every single one of them has a shipping address.

 

ZenCart does the exact same thing.

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does that work in sandbox to? A real newbie here testing and I also do not show address in the sandbox testing area of paypal, will that change when going live? hoping for helpful hints.

[FalseDawn]

If somone makes a paypal purchase through your website, and through paypal, then there is a shipping address associated with it.

 

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but I'm looking at a very long list of paypal payments from purchases from an osc store, and every single one of them has a shipping address.

 

I think there might be some confusion here.

 

I've had a look at paypal IPN, and in my orders, paypal itself is not actually recording a shipping address. Maybe this is something that can be passed if needed - I don't need it, as I record the shipping address in OSC, so it's irrelevant whether paypal has a record of it or not.

 

Looking at the IPN documentation, there is a "no_shipping" flag that can be passed, and if set to 0, the customer will be prompted to enter a shipping address.

1, they are not required to enter one, and 2 they must enter one.

 

Still, I'm not wasting any more time on this, as the guy has obviously given up.

[Guest]

I think there might be some confusion here.

 

I've had a look at paypal IPN, and in my orders, paypal itself is not actually recording a shipping address. Maybe this is something that can be passed if needed - I don't need it, as I record the shipping address in OSC, so it's irrelevant whether paypal has a record of it or not.

 

Looking at the IPN documentation, there is a "no_shipping" flag that can be passed, and if set to 0, the customer will be prompted to enter a shipping address.

1, they are not required to enter one, and 2 they must enter one.

 

Still, I'm not wasting any more time on this, as the guy has obviously given up.

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Hello Dawn

 

I haven't given up, and I have been following this thread as I too would like to know how to pass this information to paypal and ship through our paypal account, and pay for shipping this way. Since my account has funds in it already.

 

Could you please explain futher about where to change 0, 1, 2, etc.

 

Thanks badboysdarts

[Guest]

Hello Dawn

 

I haven't given up, and I have been following this thread as I too would like to know how to pass this information to paypal and ship through our paypal account, and pay for shipping this way. Since my account has funds in it already.

 

Could you please explain futher about where to change 0, 1, 2, etc.

 

Thanks badboysdarts

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Just for everyones information: Changing that information FalseDawn has suggested does work great and passes the shipping information to PayPal Great, Thank you Dawn for this it was a great help.

[buddhaji]

That contribtuion works fine. It passes the customers shipping addres to paypal, and pre-populates the paypal 'create an account' form.

 

Can someone please clarify, does PayPal IPN Module automatcially prepopulate addresses, or do we have to change something in the code or admin area? Many thanks