Is there anyway to make that the part where you enter your credit card information is open by default, instead of the part where you enter your paypal information?
I really need this, but wasn`t able to find anywhere!
The only way to do that is with Express Checkout. In your SetExpressCheckout request you set SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole and LANDINGPAGE=Billing.
This will force the full credit card form to be displayed so people can enter a credit card without creating a PayPal account...
This can't be done with Payments Standard, unfortunately. "Guest Checkout" is available with Payments Standard, but it's all cookie based, so if any person on the computer being used has ever signed in to a PayPal account it will assume that's what they'll be doing in the future and it won't present the credit card option.
EDIT
This question came up again and I had more information to provide. Check it out.
for people reaching here from google and still cant manage to solve it , there are several key factors to this :
PayPal parameters: if you look at PayPal's API there are 3 relevant fields: LANDINGPAGE, USERSELECTEDFUNDINGSOURCE, SOLUTIONTYPE .
Not sending email parameter. change email parameter to '' (blank) . if you do send email parameter it will always open the login tab.
Cookies. no matter what you do , if the user have a PayPal cookie on his browser , the login tab will open by default (and the above parameters will be ignored) there is no solution for that (as far as I know) so make sure you check if it works with a cookie virgin browser.
For those of you working on the latest implementation of Express Checkouts, all you need to do to have the credit card tab open by default is add an extra &SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE=US(or any country code for the matter as default) to the nvpstring before doing a SetExpressCheckout and it will begin working like a wonder.
Cheers :)
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Hi I have searched for this solution and although others have experienced the same problem I couldn't find a solution that works for my site.
My wordpress site mainly sells registrations/bookings for events and I'm using the s2Memberplugin to process the payments with Paypal. The problem is that when we direct the users/customers to the paypal page to complete the transaction which i want set up with the option of paying via credit/debit card if the user/customer doesn’t have (or doesn’t want to create one) a paypal account. That has been working perfectly except for when users/customers are using a variety of internet browser with various cookie settings so the user/customer get’s directed to a completely different page both in appearance and functionality from the page I want them to see. This incorrect page ‘requires’ users/customers to have or create a paypal account to make the payment, no option to pay via card is available. I tried calling paypal and of course they say it is something wrong with my site.
Over 20 days ago i lodged a support ticket with Paypal MTS (or whatever they are called) and of course no response. I have lodged about 5 more tickets and made about 10 more phone calls and they simply don't care about customers. That is clearly demonstrated when you ask to speak to the complaints section and they say "We don't have a complaints section'
Thanks very much, any assistance is greatly appreciated
I haven't been provided with any error codes, unfortunately - i did ask for them but nobody supplied them.
we just discovered that the payflow and IPN settings within my sites plugin were empty but i'm filling them in now but i have two questions:
The vendor, is that just my username for my paypal account? (why don't they just use the same terminology - confusing)
My s2Member plugin say's i'll need my IPN url (and then supplies a url, but whn i look at the IPN notification url within my paypal settings it's a totally different link. Should i be changing my paypal IPN url to that which is supplied by my s2Member plugin or am i getting two different url's confused?
Thanks for your help again mate.
If you're using Payments Standard this experience is cookie based as you mentioned. If you want to make sure the full credit card form shows up and allows people to pay with a credit card without creating an account you can use the Express Checkout API instead.
In your SetExpressCheckout request you just need to set SOLUTION=Sole and LANDINGPAGE=Billing.
I have seen this done before so I know it's possible - when you redirect to a PayPal checkout from your site, paypal presents you with 2 options to make a payment. One is "Login with PayPal Account" and the other one is something like "Don't have a PayPal account? Pay with Credit/Debit Card". By default the second option is collapsed, but I've seen sites where it's uncollapsed by default. How can I achieve this effect?
NB - previous posts suggested that it's done by cookies, and if PayPal detects that you have a PayPal account it will display the first option (login with PayPal). However I've seen other sites that display the 'Credit/Debit' card option uncollapsed even if you've got a paypal account. Do they clear the cookies somehow before redirecting you to PayPal?
Thanks
just add :)
<input type="hidden" name="landing_page" value="billing">
You are redirected to billing page...
You can not set the credit card option to show by default if you are using Website Payments Standard. This is set by cookies. However, if you are using Express Checkout you can set the credit card section to show by default. This is most likely what you have seen on other sites. If you are using Express Checkout, and want to set this all you need to do is passing over the following 2 variables and values in your SetExpressCheckout API call.
SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole
LANDINGPAGE=Billing
You also need to make sure you have PayPal account optional turned on in your PayPal account. This is section is found in your profile.
A little bit late with this one but i recently had the same issue using Express Checkout JS
Managed to resolve this by adding the following to the js object
experience: {
flow_config: {
landing_page_type: "billing",
}
}
I came across from various sites regarding the same ask while I have workaround to achieve this for the time being. :) But your finding resolved my issue, that's cookies cause after I have my workaround applied.
The workaround to default the Paypal payment to Credit/Debit card option is to add the variables on your button such as country=COUNTRY_VALUE or any other variables you would think customer is fine to have it defaulted. Variables page https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables/#id08A6HI0J0VU
Hope it helps you. :)
We send people to PayPal to either donate or subscribe to our site.
We have guest access enabled, when you start a fresh session and navigate to our donate page and click the button, you get a nice 'guest' checkout page.
But, if you log in to PayPal and then logout again, you don't get this form on your next donate, you get the 'login' form.
I'd like to be able to force all users to the Guest form if possible. I know that there are a bunch of features not available to us lowly 'donate button' users (as opposed to Express Checkout and the like) but surely I could pass a param that forced the Guest form?
Answering my own question here.
Can you force PayPal Payments Standard API to show credit card fields first?
Is it possible to have PayPal standard expand the 'Guest Payments' tab by default?
Its all based on the PayPal cookie and there's nothing that allows you to override that.
EDIT This has been confirmed by PayPal support.
If there is a cookie, or if you provide an email like WooCommerce does by default PayPal will assume you have an account. See my answer in Paypal Payment Standard default enter card details
For some reason PayPal won't redirect to my site after a payment is confirmed.
I have set auto return and set a valid url.
I have set a hidden param of return to the same url.
It just shows me a payment complete page with a link back to my site (the same url as above). If i click this then it takes me back to my site - hence I know the url is valid.
I just want this to happen automatically, which is what is supposed to happen if I set these options is it not?
Why is paypal so cumbersome? Or am I missing the blindingly obvious?
I'm using paypal standard with a business account.
Go to profile website preference page and turn on the auto return option.
Edit:
In addition to the answer posted above, to turn on the auto return option, follow the below links:
Click on Profile underneath the My Account Tab
Click on My Selling Tools on the left hand side
Select the update option next to
Website preferencesReturn customers to my website after they pay with PayPal.
Locate the option to turn on Auto Return and proceed accordingly.
N.B. Over the past weeks trying to implement PayPal, I have come to understand that Paypal have a very confusing website and documentation and very often you may find contradicting things. So please note that the set of links above may change at a moment's notice. - DottoreM
From #AlexSchimp's comment above:
If the user pays with a credit or debit card, and doesn't log into PayPal it won't work. It only works if the user logs into their PayPal account.
The "Website payment preference" auto return URL functionality will only work for the payments processed via "WPS (Website Payments Standard)" i,e PayPal HTML button integration payments.
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://example.com/returnurl" />
OR
Check this URL:
https://www.paypal.com/in/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/mer/express_return_summary-outside.
I hope it will work for you.
Thanks
Poonam (http://www.web-technology-experts-notes.in)
When the PayPal transaction is complete, PayPal shows this:
Thanks for your order
Your payment of $XXXX.XX USD is complete.
You're now going back to MYSITE.
If you are not redirected within 10 seconds, click here.
I don't want the client to even see this page. Is there any way to either avoid it completely, or set the redirect time to 0?
You will also need a Website Payments Pro subscription for that.
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/website-payments-pro
Once you have it, get the API signature, API username & API password from the My Profile area of your paypal account.
Then, use the Direct Payment method as described in the following manual
https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/PP_WPP_IntegrationGuide.pdf
As mentioned by Watermark, you might need to review PCI requirements and at least have SSL on your site before you can do this.
Check out https://developer.paypal.com/. You can build your own interface using PayPal's API. The user will never know that PayPal handled the transaction.
Be sure to review PCI-DSS requirements when using this approach.
What you ask is achievable with PayPal Payments Standard, but the seller account receiving the payment needs to be a PayPal Business/Premier account (a free upgrade), and they need to enable Auto Return and provide a Return URL in their PayPal account > Profile > Profile & Settings > My Selling Tools > Website Preferences.
You can also pass a return URL variable to checkout for each order, which would override any Return URL (or lack thereof) in the seller's PayPal account profile; however, if Auto Return is not also enabled in the seller's account, the buyer would need to click past the end of checkout manually in order to be redirected to that URL.