Guest Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Hi folks, I'm re-designing my site with OSC, using the PayPal and money order payment modules. (One of) my problem(s) is that the checkout process is so long with PayPal, between creating an account and password, entering billing/shipping info, and then doing the same on the PayPal site. This leaves room for user-error, nevermind just running out of time to complete the order. I plan to install the two contributions Purchase without account and a paypal IPN module for order confirmation etc. but this still leaves the problem of re-entering customer data. I have read on the PayPal support site of methods to populate the fields (assuming the customer doesn't already have a paypal account/cookie) but haven't been able to get them to work. I'm running Apache 1.3.whatever and mysql on my own redhat server. If anyone knows how to post user data to a PayPal checkout form I would love to here about it. Thanks in advance, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Here's a link to an article which proposes a solution to this problem, but it's a little beyond me. Can anyone tell if this is current, and whether it may work in OSC? http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Quick-E...P-and-PayPal/1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 PayPal IPN pre-populates all of the fields for you. I know, because I contributed the code to do it in the IPN contribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 Thanks Chris, good to know. There seem to be a few IPN contribs available - which one are you talking about? Also, do you know if the field-population will work in conjunction with the Purchase-Without-Account contrib? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 which one are you talking about? I'm frozen at v.9.6, wihc is not compatible with MS2 Also, do you know if the field-population will work in conjunction with the Purchase-Without-Account contrib? Theoretically, it should, because until the customer actually checks out, there actually is an account created for the customer. The purchase without account deletes the account after the purchase (which btw, isn't really a very well thought out process, imo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 This is the PayPal IPN I was planning on using: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1753 Is this the updated version of the one you're using?: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1352 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 It looks like this is the best IPN contribution to use. I haven't put it live yet, but so far it's been very easy to install and does everything I want it to. The ability to put the store logo on the PayPal page from within the admin area is a really nice touch. Nice work by the developer Gregory Baboolal. Thanks Greg! PayPal_Shopping_Cart_IPN 1.5 for MS2 http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1753 PayPal_Shopping_Cart_IPN Support Thread: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...72942&hl=paypal The first post in this thread has some very handy payment icon graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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