Guest Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 I've been trying to setup Paypal Direct and Express Checkout, although I haven't been very successful. at the confirmation screen I get: "Sorry, your order failed! You can attempt to purchase your basket contents again below:" I dont know if i did everything right, perhaps someone can write up a quick outline as to what is required for this to work? Any help is appritiated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Hi Zvon, In order to use your paypal account with your cart, you need to login to your paypal account and set the details there first. The setup is on both sides paypal and your admin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 PayPal Direct and Express Checkout are both features of PayPal Pro. This is a PAID upgrade from PayPal. It'll cost you $20 a month for the service. I don't do enough business to make it worth it for me. But the PayPal IPN / PDT (AutoReturn) works like a charm (after some tweaking on my part). I fixed the error saying that the order had failed. It's all good now. I'll do a new thread with the instructions on how to fix it if you like. Just let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 that thread would be quite usefull not for myself but for others as well. THanks for your info I was aware of the $20 cost per month, but it certainly isn't easy to setup thats why a tutorial would be a good addition to the knowledgebase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Sorry I'm in the US. IF you reside within the USA, PayPal Express Checkout is available at NO Extra Charge. Just signup for the Business Account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I still cannot get PayPal Direct to return anything other than 'Sorry, your order failed!' PayPal Express works, and I have the appropriate accounts and API certificate from PayPal, but no dice. Has anyone been successful in getting this set-up? Any tricks or gotchas to look out for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I still have not been able to fix this...sound off if you have any clues on getting PayPal Direct pay to work please */* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KForce Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 i am having the same issues. paypal direct and express both just say order failed with no reason. i have the paypal api in my /pear dir and /pear/tmp is 777. anyone got a fix for this yet? kforce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 This still doesn't work. I have no idea what to do, and am getting rather frustrated. Can anyone verify if PayPal direct even works for 3.0.3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 Well, I solved the other problem. Now that I finished the mod I was contracted on, I'll look into PayPal direct. PayPal just approved my API access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 great to hear you're looking into it! I still can't seem to figure it out haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Sorry guys, turns out I need to add in some PHP modules and I'm not in the mood to dig that deep for this one. I don't have SSL capable CURL installed. Oh well. Maybe I'll be more ambitious next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KForce Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 lol i wish someone would help out this section i went to 3.0.3 just for that reason. have my great API in there and everything. the problem is whenever someone selects PayPal Express it goes directly to your order failed. when someone selects paypal direct you get a nice order form put in all your cc info click submit then it goes to order failed. i really really need this feature and appreciate ANYONES help on it. kforce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 PayPal Direct does not work. Would it be helpful to submit it as a bug report? I don't have any specific information as to what is causing the order failure, except for what is already being reported in these forums. I can't imagine, with 500,000 users of CubeCart, that the few who have posted in this thread are the only ones having this issue, and if you are NOT having this issue, and have PayPal Direct successfully working, please share with us the steps you went through to get it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Ok, I always do this. I whine and complain and then go find the solution. Hopefully I can help people clear up some of the problems they are having with this API. Let me be clear: I did have a successful Direct Payment go through on my sandbox account. Here is what I did, besides the obvious. (1) I checked the /pear/tmp/[DATE].PayPal.log. It is layed out in XML format, and I'm not sure what I need to do to parse it, but I looked at it directly on the ftp site, as the error messages I was getting from PayPal are still contained in there. My first error was dumb, though excusable - instead of using the state two-letter code, I was using the full name. Granted, it says to use the two-letter code right next to the input, but being a typical user, I typed in the full name. Yes it was dumb, but it points out that this box should (A) not allow more than two characters to be typed in or even better ( be a selection box that confines users to certain choices. (2) Here is the information from my PayPal log that did the trick. I had no idea what to do with this at first: <ShortMessage xsi:type="xs:string">Feature Disabled.</ShortMessage><LongMessage xsi:type="xs:string">Direct Payment has been disabled on this account. Transaction has not been processed.</LongMessage><ErrorCode xsi:type="xs:token">10550</ErrorCode> I visited the sandbox forums, and lo and behold, there was a post on this very subject. Hurrah, I see a light, and hope it is not a train. The short of it is, you have to sign up for virtual terminal, not just get the PayPal API certificate. The link to do this in the sandbox is as follows: https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/vt Here is the entire response from the developer to the person asking how to enable PayPal direct: Hi xxxxxxxx, You will need to apply for Direct Payment and accept the billing agreement. It is possible to do this in the Sandbox at https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/vt. It is possible to use any SSN that begins with 111 and has not been used. -- Eric L. PayPal Developer Technical Support It was easy to sign up for virtual terminal in the sandbox - just make up a fake SSN, fill in the rest of the info, and you get confirmed right away. As soon as I did this and tested my CubeCart site, my fake credit card payment was processed - another point: if you don't have a fake account with a fake credit card set up in the sandbox, it won't work either. I am going to test the live version in a little while with my own cc, maybe charge a few dollars to myself and make sure it works right. I'll let people know how I progress. So it does work. It just isn't obvious from the PayPal side how to make it work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Update, my live transaction with my Mastercard was successful. I checked my PayPal account and the money is there as well. If anyone would like to PM or email ([email protected]) me to know more in detail what I did, feel free to do so. This was probably the most painful part of getting my first CubeCart to work, so if I can help make it any easier for anyone, please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Hi I have also been trying to get the PayPal API to work but it does not support £... Are you using $? Which is a pain!!! A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeromas Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 I am using US Dollars. I don't think PayPal direct works at this point for anyone but US customers, at least according to PayPal... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Direct Payment Improved in 3.0.5 see below: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Looking Good Brooky... I have contact PayPal to find out when the API Access will be available for the UK ( £ ) .....and.....wait for it!!! THEY CANT / WON'T TELL ME!!! Oh well have to keep waiting!! A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Annoying isn't it. Not suprised of their response though. I should take a leaf out of their book instead of telling people 3.0.5 would be out on Friday!! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 I should take a leaf out of their book instead of telling people 3.0.5 would be out on Friday!! Will that install come with a little man to help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 It will be a replace existing files effort. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest merlintx1969 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 I have installed the newest version of cubecart, and when I try to test the express checkout I dont see any mention of it until AFTER I have created a store account, can someone please tell me where to find it before I have to create an account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Hi Merlintx1969, All your customers register before you they purchase/checkout. It's useful in case you have a shipping/billing problem. Paypal is particular about wanting registration on their side first but a majority of gateways aren't like that. Funny that this ultimately makes you more dependent on their 'admin tools'. Bit of a monopoly strategy. Look in 'Includes/Content/' the gates are there. :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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