Standard PayPal Issue

[cactusrunning]

I am using Paypal Standard with my website and everything works great to check out. BUT after the customer checks out, the information on what was ordered is NOT being sent back to my zencart area. I see I have an order because of PayPal, but nothing on zencart. Has anyone had issues with information NOT being sent back to your zencart admin? Any ideas on how to get this fixed?

*PS. both Paypal and my hosting account say everything is working correctly on their ends and it is a zencart issue.

[DrByte]

Who is your hosting company? If it's GoDaddy or WildWest, see here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...520#post612520

The PayPal "Standard" module requires that PayPal's servers contact *your* server in the background while your customer is waiting. If your orders aren't showing up in your store, then that communications process is broken. You'll have to figure out what's blocking the communications. This document gives many troubleshooting steps: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/PayPal

Or you could just use PayPal Express Checkout instead, which doesn't rely on the background communications to get orders to show in your store.

[cactusrunning]

Holy Crap DrByte is a Godsend! I changed the CURL Proxy Status to FALSE in my zencart admin and checked out as a customer would. First step thinking it worked was after the order was complete I clicked "Return to Website" and it actually took me back to my website with a thank you page! Before this was always freezing and giving me a blank page. So I went into zencart admin and it showed I had an order!!!!!!! Holy Crap I don't know what to say. I have changed this CURL Proxy status before, but either didn't do a practice order after I changed it, or I changed it in my hosting account and not in zencart. I don't know, but I could cry right now. I have been messing with this for months and was at my wits end, but felt I was so close to fixing it. PHEW!!!!

Should I have any issues in the future, should I install the Push Order/Paypal SEssions Viewer??

[DrByte]

If you use Express instead of Standard, you won't need the Push Order addon, for the reasons mentioned earlier.