Paypal payments standard problem shipping address

[adamsotr]

I'm crying like a little baby. For hours now, I have been beating my head against the wall trying to solve this problem. I have sent out flyers to all my customers to advertise my website and now my website doesn't even work! I didn't do anything to it, this problem came up suddenly without any warning when the site was working fine before and I even got a few orders already from customers using paypal. Now when a customer tries to checkout using Paypal, the following error message happens:

 

Unable to process payment. Please contact the merchant as the shipping address provided by the merchant is invalid, and the merchant has requested that your order must be shipped to that address.

 

I did not set any special address matching anything in Paypal or in oscommerce. It was working good and now it doesn't work at all. When I called Paypal they were clueless and said it must be the buttons. I'm crying! I don't know what to do! It's already 1:38 AM and I've been chasing my tail for hours now. I don't have the money to hire some tech person, and this site took weeks to do, so I don't want to have to do it all over again. Does anybody know what can be done to fix this horrible problem?

 

I typed this problem into google, and I noticed that there were other people who had this problem, but none of them received any answers that worked. This is a very major personal disaster to me. I have a Premier account, so it is not that I don't have the right kind of Paypal account. You can have a premier account and still use website payments standard. I am at such a loss to solve this problem. Any help anybody can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance for any help offered. God bless you all! The website is at http://www.adamsotr.com

[LunarLive]

I have had the same issue crop up - I figured out a work-around for now - I posted it in the Contributions / Add-Ons > Payment Modules > PayPal section. Title: "PayPal Standard Module & Return to Merchant Error" http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showforum=54 PayPal Standard Module & Return to Merchant Error

 

Hoping that helps out until someone can figure out what is causing the issue.

 

 

 

I'm crying like a little baby. For hours now, I have been beating my head against the wall trying to solve this problem. I have sent out flyers to all my customers to advertise my website and now my website doesn't even work! I didn't do anything to it, this problem came up suddenly without any warning when the site was working fine before and I even got a few orders already from customers using paypal. Now when a customer tries to checkout using Paypal, the following error message happens:

 

[adamsotr]

Hello! I tried this work-around (was probably posted by you -- MANY MANY THANKS!! It

seems to be working now, changing the paypal standard php file to change the address override from 1 to zero. This problem sure caused me alot of grief. Thanks again

 

$parameters['address_override'] = '1';

 

 

over to

 

 

$parameters['address_override'] = '0';

 

 

 

I have had the same issue crop up - I figured out a work-around for now - I posted it in the Contributions / Add-Ons > Payment Modules > PayPal section. Title: "PayPal Standard Module & Return to Merchant Error" http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showforum=54

 

Hoping that helps out until someone can figure out what is causing the issue.

[creationsfromeden]

Hello! I tried this work-around (was probably posted by you -- MANY MANY THANKS!! It

seems to be working now, changing the paypal standard php file to change the address override from 1 to zero. This problem sure caused me alot of grief. Thanks again

 

$parameters['address_override'] = '1';

 

 

over to

 

 

$parameters['address_override'] = '0';

 

Yes thank you as well!!! I think this fixed my problem too (which I ahve been working on for weeks!)!!!

[Guest]

Hello all,

 

Also been having this same prob. Tried this work around and it works great. Any one got more of a handle on this?

 

Here's hoping

Jon

[Guest]

Hello all,

 

Also been having this same prob. Tried this work around and it works great. Any one got more of a handle on this?

 

Here's hoping

Jon

:lol: Yes!

 

I had the exact problems as you are having and this is how i fixed it.

you are going to kick yourselves as i did when i tell you the answer.

 

All it took was setting Admin =>customer details => State function from false to true!!

 

hope this helped!

[Guest]

:lol: Yes!

 

I had the exact problems as you are having and this is how i fixed it.

you are going to kick yourselves as i did when i tell you the answer.

 

All it took was setting Admin =>customer details => State function from false to true!!

 

hope this helped!

 

Hi Rapetet,

Wish I was kicking myself, unfortunately this did not work for me, do I have to set any of the others to true also? As default they are all set to false.

This is driving me crazy, I can get things to work using the work around from above but it seems a bit like taking the bulb out of the warning light!! No offence of course, it does work after all.

Any other thoughts?

Jon

[Guest]

OK when I looked at it again I realised that I had to go into the customers account and add an entry for STATE and know it works.

Thanks a lot Rapetet kicking myself as I type.

Think I'll try to make state a required field to stop errors in future.

Cheers all.

Jon