I am trying to figure out how to show Order summary in Paypal express checkout. What I currently have is this:
what I am trying to get is this (visible by default "order summary")
You can't do it. PayPal has migrated the legacy pages (second screenshot you shared) to new pages (first screenshot).
Any reason that you want to display the cart information on page load?
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I am trying to add multiple PayPal buttons to my sales page for the same product. The idea is that as the customer scrolls, they reach several different places where they could check out.
For example, if the customer reaches Checkout Point #1 and decides not to purchase, he/she can keep scrolling down the sales page to get more information on the product. Eventually the customer will reach Chekout Point #2 where they will again be presented with the buttons to purchase. The product and price are the same at every checkout point.
I found my checkout code by going to Pay & Get Paid > PayPal Checkout > Get Started > Choose a Ready to Go Option. I copied the code provided to me on that page and added it to my website. Right now, only my first button is working when I embed the code from PayPal. The PayPal buttons do not appear at any of the other three checkout points.
I need to have four checkout points - two on the desktop version of my site and two on the mobile version. I don't know if the first code is cancelling out the other three or how to fix it. Can somebody please help me figure out how what"m doing wrong? I'm not the best tech person! Thank you very much!
I have integrated Express Checkout with my application it works fine but sometimes paypal payment pages behaves very oddly. When user is directed to payment page, the page it shows is not same all the time. sometimes it shows saying "Login or Checkout as a Guest" and sometimes user see a page saying "Login as paypal or Create an account"
I have attached the image url Please see the following links.
First Layout
http://oi60.tinypic.com/149rpcn.jpg
http://oi60.tinypic.com/2r43ms2.jpg
Second Layout
http://oi58.tinypic.com/vxcl04.jpg
http://oi62.tinypic.com/v3j3hc.jpg
First layout makes sense. but second layout creating confusion when it says "create an account"? is that means creating paypal account or what? when i click on the option it simply shows me credit card details to enter. i dont know if that is related to the payment or asking to create new paypal account?
PayPal has been split testing the old EC pages with the new ones that you're seeing sometimes. In order to work with both sets of pages nicely, you'll need to make sure to add an additional parameter into your SetExpressCheckout request.
It looks like you're already using the following (and if you're not, you need to add them)
SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole
LANDINGPAGE=Billing
You need to also include the following to work well with the new pages.
USERSELECTEDFUNDINGSOURCE=CreditCard
Is it possible to have an active automatic stock counter on my website (for each item drop down box), that queries from my paypal button's stock inventory?
So if someone buys, the stock counter for that particular item goes down automatically, like it does on paypal's end. But I want it to be shown on my website for my customers to see how much stock is actually left. Is this possible with paypal?
I'd check the BMGetButtonDetails API and see if it'll provide it for you.
I have implemented PayPal for my site, and i used IPN checkout. Currently when I press PayNow button on my site it shows PayPal Checkout page with following design http://c2n.me/iM28i8
But there is another PayPal Checkout page design (see http://c2n.me/iMwGZk), than the one I use. How can i switch to that design?
The second screen shot is new layout design that will be offered going forward . Currently it is not rolled out everywhere , so your buyers can see the different checkout page depending on the various factors like their country , ip adrees etc . This is only the change in design and will not affect the way PayPal process the transaction .
And there is no way to control the checkout design , it will be decided by the PayPal .
The second screenshot looks a lot like the payment page paypal has for mobile devices. are you sure that's not the mobile one?
We're developing an application that uses Paypal Express Checkout, and we're finding that we get two different landing pages. We're actually finding a problem that seems superficially similar to Can you force PayPal Payments Standard API to show credit card fields first?, but with a few differences:
Everything is fine with the sandbox, and we get exactly the appearance (credit card first) we want.
On the live site, about 50% of the time we get exactly the appearance (credit card first) we want.
Sometimes, we get a more "mobile-like" landing page, with the credit card stuff totally hidden in a "Check out as a guest" button, as shown.
This feels like a failing A/B test to me. We're sending exactly the variables in the question linked above, and as I said, all works fine with the older landing pages. I know there are also cookie issues, but in this case, we're seeing it even when Paypal is not able to identify an account and when cookies are cleared.
Does anybody know if there is anything we can do to work around this?
I can add code if needed, but the problem appears to be more data than logic.
I had the same question after I started to see users coming in from the 'new style' page.
I found the answer here:
Paypal express "order summary" page
I added the "force_sa=true" parameter to my Paypal URL:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&force_sa=true&token=…
The new page is definitely weighted to appear more often on mobile devices. Without the parameter I get the new style page on a iPad after about 5 refreshes, with the parameter I can refresh as much as I like and never see the new page.
Obviously, PayPal will roll out the new page to everyone in the end, but this technique allows us a stop gap while we get ready for it ;-)
The screen pictured is PayPal's new checkout. It is only partially deployed at this point, you can think of it as A/B testing.
Regarding whether the customer sees "credit cards first", this mostly depends on whether they have a PayPal email stored in their browser cookie. If they do, the top "Log in to PayPal" section will be expanded, the email filled out, and they just need to type in their password and do about 3 clicks to complete the checkout..
If they do not have a PayPal email stored in their cookies, the bottom Create an Account or Pay as Guest section will be expanded. (If you want guest checkout, pass SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole in your initial SetExpressCheckout request).
The customer can always switch between the two expanded sections, it's just a "smart default" of sorts.
Try doing all your "credit cards first" testing in an incognito / private browsing window.