Comments on: Paypal Hosted Buy Buttons

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:40:18 +0000

Thank you Veena,
I misinterpretated the recurring as having to put the price in there. You taught me to push the info buttons more regularly to be sure what I am actually doing when filling in a field.
Thanks for your help and problem solved!

Greetings Henry

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:45:50 +0000

Henry,

>>I have the impression that within dap you can not stop the automatic payment after a fixed amount of payments. < <

You can set the "recurring count" in the dap products page => price&recurring settings tab to limit the number of payments.

Thanks,
Veena

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:00:14 +0000

I would like to use the dap generated button, but I have the impression that within dap you can not stop the automatic payment after a fixed amount of payments.

Is that correct? If so I have to use the paypal generated buttons, but lose the nice feature of redirecting new customers straight to their product, without having to wait for the confrimation email and inlog data.

I hope I am wrong and it is possible. Can you tell me how to do it or refer me to the right part in the help section that I missed?

If I am right I would like to suggest it as a new feature in the next update. (To be able to automatically stop the payments after a certain period.)

Thanks anyway and looking forward to your response.

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Hi Andy,
Please see – http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/troubleshooting-paypal-integration/

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:53:52 +0000

Hiya, I’m trying to test the customer journey, I signed up via Paypal but had an issue with the return url (paypal error not DAP) but now when trying to purchase payment goes through but no user name or password is created even though I have deleted the previous user from the database. Payment shows as invalid in the ‘orders’ section but money was deducted?

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:44:37 +0000

>> If I set the Global IPN to just that 1 site with DAP on it and do not set the button level IPN to anything for my other products on non DAP sites, does that mean that my DAP site will get notifications from all of my other transactions on non Dap sites?
If so does anyone know a way around this? < <

Yes, there is a way around it.

Paypal requires that the global IPN be set and point to a valid script.

We recommend that if you use DAP, then you set the global IPN to the same dap script (dap-paypal.php) as the button level IPN.

BUT... you DO NOT have to set the global IPN to the dap script. You can point it to any valid php script on any of your sites.

You can upload a file called paypal_global.php to the root of one of your sites with just this :

echo "do nothing";

Then set the global IPN to point to this script on your site :

http://yoursite.com/paypal_global.php

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:04:32 +0000

I have quite a few sites that have products on my Paypal account, 1 with DAP the rest without.
If I set the Global IPN to just that 1 site with DAP on it and do not set the button level IPN to anything for my other products on non DAP sites, does that mean that my DAP site will get notifications from all of my other transactions on non Dap sites?
If so does anyone know a way around this?

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:47:24 +0000

Yes, you CAN have one Paypal account to serve multiple DAP sites. Here’s how.

The basic/global IPN setting under Paypal Profile -> Instant Payment Notification Preferences, can point to any one of the DAP sites. It just needs to be set and needs to point to a valid URL.

The main thing is the button level IPN (under button advanced settings). The button level IPN needs to point to the right DAP site and the button item_name needs to match the product name in that DAP site.

For example, say you have 3 DAP sites (SITEA, SITEB and SITEC).

The Paypal Button(s) that you use to sell items off SITEA, needs to have the button level IPN pointing to SITEA (http://SITEA/dap/dap-paypal.php) and item_name matching one of the products that you sell out of SITEA.

The Paypal Button(s) that you use to sell items off SITEB, needs to have the button level IPN pointing to SITEB (http://SITEB/dap/dap-paypal.php) and item_name matching one of the products that you sell out of SITEB.

And the same deal with SITEC. The button level IPN for SITEC should point to SITEC (http://SITEC/dap/dap-paypal.php) and item_name matching one of the products that you sell out of SITEC.

The global IPN (under paypal profile) can point to any of the sites. It could be set to http://SITEA/dap/dap-paypal.php OR http://SITEB/dap/dap-paypal.php
OR http://SITEC/dap/dap-paypal.php.

The global IPN always needs to be set BUT it is ONLY used if the button level IPN is NOT set.

By: Goran

Goran — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:31:50 +0000

Hi Ravi, Veena,
Do you have any advice of how to use IPN when I have more than one URL to where PayPal should send their messages? I mean when the same PayPal account is serving DAP on more than one site?
I suppose the “basic” URL in the IPN-set-up must be the same as the URL in the advanced settings for the Buy Now button? And in that case it rules out using IPN for more than one DAP-site?
Thanks,
Goran

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