PayPal IPN vs. Express

[DrByte]

DrByte, what do you prefer

The best choice is whichever works best to encourage your specific customers to complete checkout and payment.

(I prefer Express myself because I find it more reliable, but that's just my opinion.)

[chris32882]

Yeah, thats what I am thinking as well, with Standard there is that issue with PayPal not notifying you of payment if they don't sign up, that can be troublesome

[bluefirefly]

Sorry to jump in on this, but it's raised some questions for me as well.

Is this still a problem then with the PayPal Standard (IPN)?

If the customer pays without making a PayPal account and declines the invitation to make one, your store sits in limbo and never gets the order (due to a bug in PayPal's logic, which they've not fixed yet).

If so I guess I'll have to choose another option since PayPal Standard does not show detailed shop contents for the order, so I wouldn't know what was purchased.

I don't like it that PayPal Express requires a customer to sign up for a PayPal account though, because a lot of my customers don't have PayPal accounts and I don't want to lose any old or new customers because of that requirement. Have any of you found this to be a problem?

What about this: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=317

PayPal has an "Account Optional" setting in your PayPal account Profile, under Payment Receiving Preferences. Ensure that it is on.

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Note that the PayPal Express Checkout product technically does not allow the option to make payment without having a PayPal account.

By technically do you mean you can't do it even with the account optional setting selected?

Thank you.

[laurenjj]

I too am STILL totally confused. I've read all the tutorials and find myself still not sure what to do...

I thought that with express your customers HAD to have an account...but I just tested it now and it seems that you don't have to have one as you have the option to continue payment. So then this means that express can do the same thing as standard, right? OK....

Well NOW I want to have an authorize/capture on that account so that I have a chance to make sure I can get their order out to them in a timely manner before I charge their card. OK...so I found a thread on here that instructed you to enter

if (method_exists($this, '_doCapt') && (MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPALWPP_TRANSACTION_MODE == 'Auth Only' || (isset($_GET['authcapt']) && $_GET['authcapt']=='on'))) $output .= $outputCapt;

in the paypalwpp_admin_notification.php, which I did...and I just tested it and I see nothing different....and the payment was made without any authorization.....


What am I missing????????

[DrByte]

A "capture" option is pointless if you have the module set to "Capture" automatically. You need to set the module to use Authorize before the Capture option will appear.

[bluefirefly]

Found the answer in this thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95586