Paypal Website Payments Standard

[Guest]

Hi,

 

I have just upgraded to the latest OSC version and am not able to get paypal website payments standard to send over the item description.

 

Before I get blown down in flames.....I have looked in all the other 5000 posts about this but they all seem to be for older versions and are different or for Paypal IPN.

 

I would like to get this one working.

 

Anyone got the code to make it work??

 

Regards

 

Simply Teaching

[FIMBLE]

You are right!

The code from PAYPAL.IPN just says

'item_name' => STORE_NAME,

This is not so much a problem as the IPN stores the order on your Database, so you can match them up.

I did think about changing it but am happy with the way it works.

Plus if you have you redirection then PayPal will send your customer back to your store for the checkout success.

[Jarus]

Hi Guys,

 

I was wondering if you could help me out with something, I downloaded the latest contrib:

 

"Paypal Website Payments Standard"

 

And installed it, but I'm extremely new to this, and obviously I have to use this contribution rather than the standard PayPal because I am in Australia.

 

Anyway, I cannot even get to this point, it says something about public certificates and keys and openssl. Now this is what I'm having trouble with.

 

I'm guessing I need all those things, so that when a customer makes orders on my site, when they click Confirm Order and are "supposed" to be taken to the Paypal page that all the information is sent securely? Is there any guides available on how to do this, as it's a bit complicated for someone that's never done it before.

 

Also am I right in assuming that the contribution is automatically setup so that it sends item details with the order to Paypal? What I mean is, as a test I just tried the normal PayPal payment module and it works NEARLY great, it goes straight to the payment page with my store name up the top, but because I am not using a compatible currency it doesn't send an order total amount (obviously) BUT it at least does the right thing and sends all info etc. but it does it as 1 single item payment even if the customer was to purchase 2+. Is that the part where you have to modify the code for the "Confirm Payment" button on osC?

 

Sorry if it's a bit confusing, I just thought I would ask here, since you guys have got it going and may understand what I'm trying to say :)

[mmph]

Hi Guys,

 

I was wondering if you could help me out with something, I downloaded the latest contrib:

 

"Paypal Website Payments Standard"

 

And installed it, but I'm extremely new to this, and obviously I have to use this contribution rather than the standard PayPal because I am in Australia.

 

Anyway, I cannot even get to this point, it says something about public certificates and keys and openssl. Now this is what I'm having trouble with.

 

I'm guessing I need all those things, so that when a customer makes orders on my site, when they click Confirm Order and are "supposed" to be taken to the Paypal page that all the information is sent securely? Is there any guides available on how to do this, as it's a bit complicated for someone that's never done it before.

 

Also am I right in assuming that the contribution is automatically setup so that it sends item details with the order to Paypal? What I mean is, as a test I just tried the normal PayPal payment module and it works NEARLY great, it goes straight to the payment page with my store name up the top, but because I am not using a compatible currency it doesn't send an order total amount (obviously) BUT it at least does the right thing and sends all info etc. but it does it as 1 single item payment even if the customer was to purchase 2+. Is that the part where you have to modify the code for the "Confirm Payment" button on osC?

 

Sorry if it's a bit confusing, I just thought I would ask here, since you guys have got it going and may understand what I'm trying to say :)

 

I'm in USA but assume it is similar.

 

Once you install the module, click edit and enter your information for all the values down the list until you get to "Your Private Key", you can also exclude any entry for the "Page Style" setting. If you have a standard PayPal premier or business account you are not required to used encrypted payments, you can leave all the settings blank from the "Your Private Key" setting and the fields below it.

 

I also recommend setting your IPN with in your PayPal account to return to www.yourstore.com/checkout_success.php (replace the "yourstore" with your actual URL). this will force PayPal to automatically redirect your customers to your website which also updates your inventory and order page.

 

I hope this helps some.