Kanie Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) I have installed and currently maintain several osCommerce installations for multiple clients of mine, all of whom use PayPal to accept orders. More specifically, all of the installations use the the PayPal_Shopping_Cart_IPN 3.1.5 (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1753) module to process the payments. Over the last two days, I have received numerous emails regarding an error some customers have been receiving at 2 or 3 of the stores: "We cannot process this transaction because there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied by the seller. Please contact the seller to resolve the problem. If this payment is for an eBay listing, you can contact the seller via the "Ask Seller a Question" link on the listing page. When you have the correct email address, payment can be made at www.paypal.com" As I maintain the backends of all the stores, I know none of the settings had been changed and that since the error was happening on multiple, completely independent osC installations that the problem was probably related to a change in the way PayPal accepts or verifies orders. I've found some other users here who have received the same error, but nobody seems to have a 100% working fix. For the time being I have enabled the option for users to select their own shipping address within PayPal, which seems to have fixed the error, but I'm not 100% happy with that fix. Is there another way? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Edited January 14, 2007 by Kanie Quote
mightyx Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Same problem here with the Paypal IPN 3.1.5 module. Any solutions??? Quote
anybeads Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I also encounter the same problem, I hopes there is a solutions! Help! Quote
zoti Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Just to let you know I have the exact same problem. Only some of my customers get this error (I run my own OsCommerce website). I called PayPal's support and they claim there is no problem. The payments are being sent to the correct address and only some of the customers are having this problem. Quote
anybeads Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 2 of our customers just encounter the problem... However, I don't encounter this problem when I test with my second PayPal account. If anyone know how's to fix it. Pleas help! David Quote
anybeads Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I just got a reply from the PayPal Merchant Technical Support: "We are aware of this issue with some payments not going through and our engineers are actively working to resolve it. As soon as I am aware that the problem has been resolved, I will notify you via reply to this email. " David Quote
Kanie Posted January 15, 2007 Author Posted January 15, 2007 David, thanks for that information. If you could keep us informed of the progress, it would be greatly appreciated... I think the problem is related to discrepancies between the information the osC installation holds and the information PayPal is holding. For one, it doesn't seem to like users with a different email than their PayPal one to. It may also be checking addresses of customers.. As I said in my original post, check the option to allow PayPal addresses and it should temporarily fix it for most customers, but it's not a great solution. Quote
jody00 Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) the issue they tell me is: The issue you are describing is common when the 'address_override' parameter is used. This parameter tells the PayPal system that the shipping address provided by the customer must be on their PayPal account. If your buyer attempts to make a payment using the PayPal Account Optional feature however, they will receive an error as they do not have a PayPal account to check the address against. Check your PayPal code and if you have the address_override parameter coded, simply comment it out or remove it. Alternatively, you can go into your PayPal account's profile and turn off the PayPal Account Optional feature. anyone know how to fix - dont want to turn off the account optional feature Edited January 15, 2007 by jody00 Quote
zoti Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Looks like they solved the problem. I had no more complaints today. Quote
zoti Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 It seems like the problem is still there. I just had another customer contact me with the same problem. Anyone found a solution? Quote
Guest Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Is anyone still having problems with this? I still seem to be getting problems. Quote
anybeads Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 It's better but still we still have problem.... David Quote
anybeads Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Just got a reply from PayPal again: "Hello my name is Gil, I will be happy to assist you with your question regarding your PayPal account. We've check your account is ok, please let us know if this issue still remains. Thanks again for contacting us, and thank you for being part of the PayPal community." Quote
zoti Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 It's obviously something between OsCommerce and PayPal. Paypal probably changed something in their system and no there is this error. Did anyone find a pattern to this error? Most of my customers have no problem but the ones who do cannot get past this problem. What I do is ask them to paypal the money directly to my email address which is the same I use on OsCommerce PayPal module. They have no problem paying this way. Quote
mightyx Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 I still have these errors about 4 times a day! Do you all use the Paypal IPN 3.1.5. module? Does the error also exist with the official osc Paypal IPN module ( http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2679/) ? Quote
Guest Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Hi , Still getting errors sporadically, some people seem to manage to pay, others are still emailing saying they have had problems. Quote
Guest Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Hello, I found this topic as well the other day, although it says there's a different error I figured it's worth a try: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=246339 Having just looked back at my code now I have managed to change the no_shipping value as suggested. I've just uploaded it now and will keep an eye on it and report back. Quote
mightyx Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 For easier editing, I'll repost the code here. The code is in /catalog//includes/modules/payment/paypal.php Currently the work around for this error is to change a small piece of code that is being sent to PayPal. If you edit the following line of code in your existing unencrypted buttons: <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> to read <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0"> To change it, search in paypal.php for "no_shipping" it only occurs once. Hope this helps, please report if it works! Quote
Kanie Posted January 18, 2007 Author Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) A post this this topic regarding the same problem claims PayPal may have fixed the problem. Can anyone confirm that? I'm unable to contact any of my clients at this minute.. Edited January 18, 2007 by Kanie Quote
zoti Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 I just had a cusomer complain again about this same problem :( For now I just have them pay my email address directly. Quote
anybeads Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 We do not have any problem since 17 Jan Quote
zoti Posted January 29, 2007 Posted January 29, 2007 I thought it was fixed too and I also did the fix offered on this thread but just today one customer complained about it. I'll see if any more complain. Quote
thesoftwarecastle Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 I thought it was fixed too and I also did the fix offered on this thread but just today one customer complained about it. I'll see if any more complain. I had another customer complain to me about this today also and I have had a couple of others go back and pay with a credit card instead of Paypal. I haven't tried messing with anything yet. I just came here to see if there was a fix to the problem. Brenda Quote
anybeads Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 In these 2 to 3 days, we encounter the problem again :angry: ....but this time the problem only affect customers from the Netherlands... Anyone have the same problem also? Quote
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