This transaction is invalid - Paypal express

[Jeff_Mash]

Hi Ajeh,

Everything appears fine with his address. I only edited the stuff in your quote because of privacy reasons.

This particular customer says he pays with PayPal all the time on other websites, so he's not new to the process.

I am at a loss. I have the latest ZenCart, the latest PPEC patch from 2/8/07, and now I am getting absolutely no PayPal orders. I cannot test it myself because PayPal won't allow you to buy something from yourself. However, if I pretend to checkout and select the PayPal Express option, it does take me to the PayPal login page.

So I don't know. I turned off debugging because I was literally getting 100+ emails per transaction. I will turn it back on if there is a particular message you want me to get for you.

- Jeff

Jeff ... can you check this guys customer records and make sure all settings are correct?
'SHIPTONAME' => 'Harold JXXbs',
'SHIPTOSTREET' => '1XXX2 Addison St.',
'SHIPTOSTREET2' => '',
'SHIPTOCITY' => 'North Hollywood',
'SHIPTOZIP' => '91607',
'SHIPTOSTATE' => 'CA',
'SHIPTOCOUNTRY' => 'US',
'EMAIL' => '[email protected]',

You have an upgraded site if I am not mistaken and we just want to check you don't have a customer with a goober address with invalid data or ids ... :)

[Jeff_Mash]

Just had another failure. Here is the exact subject line for EACH email message that I have, in case you want to see a certain one:\

09:02:46 AM PayPal Debug log - GetTransactionDetails
09:04:54 AM PayPal Debug log - GetTransactionDetails
09:05:04 AM PayPal Debug log - GetTransactionDetails
09:05:11 AM PayPal Debug log - GetTransactionDetails


The very last email that we got (listed above) looks like this:

2007-02-15 09:05:11
-------------------
(live transaction) --> https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp
Request Headers: array (
0 => 'Content-Type: text/namevalue',
1 => 'X-VPS-Timeout: 45',
2 => 'X-VPS-VIT-Client-Type: PHP/cURL',
3 => 'X-VPS-VIT-Integration-Product: PHP::Zen Cart - WPP-NVP',
4 => 'X-VPS-VIT-Integration-Version: 0.1',
)

Request Parameters: {GetTransactionDetails} array (
'TRANSACTIONID' => '9DE9347643781643K',
'METHOD' => 'GetTransactionDetails',
'USER' => 'customerservice_api1.mjmmagic.com',
'PWD' => '****************',
'VERSION' => '2.3',
'SIGNATURE' => '****************************************************vHb3',
)

Response: array (
'TIMESTAMP' => '2007-02-15T17:05:16Z',
'CORRELATIONID' => '3a023eb65fe8',
'ACK' => 'Success',
'VERSION' => '2.300000',
'BUILD' => '1.0006',
'RECEIVEREMAIL' => '[email protected]',
'RECEIVERID' => 'XY7XF94D5AWKQ',
'EMAIL' => '[email protected]',
'PAYERID' => 'S7CD9WJ9JWK2A',
'PAYERSTATUS' => 'verified',
'FIRSTNAME' => 'kim',
'LASTNAME' => 'doe',
'COUNTRYCODE' => 'US',
'NAME' => 'kim doe',
'SHIPTOSTREET' => '123 cumpston street',
'SHIPTOCITY' => 'n hollywood',
'SHIPTOSTATE' => 'CA',
'SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE' => 'US',
'SHIPTOCOUNTRYNAME' => 'United States',
'SHIPTOZIP' => '91601',
'ADDRESSID' => 'PayPal',
'ADDRESSSTATUS' => 'Confirmed',
'TRANSACTIONID' => '9DE9347643781643K',
'TRANSACTIONTYPE' => 'expresscheckout',
'PAYMENTTYPE' => 'instant',
'ORDERTIME' => '2007-02-12T23:17:57Z',
'AMT' => '14.11',
'CURRENCYCODE' => 'USD',
'FEEAMT' => '0.71',
'TAXAMT' => '0.00',
'PENDINGREASON' => 'None',
'REASONCODE' => 'None',
'SALESTAX' => '0.00',
'L_QTY0' => '1',
)


Like the others, we do not get this order. Nothing is put in our paypal account, and nothing comes to Zencart.

[Jeff_Mash]

Here's another one with the subject line of termEC-10

Subject: termEC-10

Redirecting to checkout_payment - Stack: checkout_payment
Message: We were not able to process your order. Please try again, select an
alternate payment method, or contact the store owner for assistance.
(Invalid Parameter)
Session Data: Array
(
[customers_host_address] => modemcable171.36-57-74.mc.videotron.ca
[cartID] =>
[cart] => shoppingcart Object
(
[observers] => Array
(
)

[contents] => Array
(
[6] => Array
(
[qty] => 1
)

)

[total] => 3.95
[weight] => 0.15
[cartID] =>
[content_type] => physical
[free_shipping_item] => 0
[free_shipping_weight] => 0
[free_shipping_price] => 0
)

[navigation] => navigationhistory Object
(
[observers] => Array
(
)

[path] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[page] => index
[mode] => SSL
[get] => Array
(
[type] => ec
[token] => EC-0CB60468SB455715E
[PayerID] => 2WGDL9JMFD58S
)

[post] => Array
(
)

)

[1] => Array
(
[page] => checkout_shipping
[mode] => SSL
[get] =>
[post] => Array
(
)

)

[2] => Array
(
[page] => checkout_payment
[mode] => SSL
[get] =>
[post] => Array
(
)

)

[3] => Array
(
[page] => checkout_confirmation
[mode] => SSL
[get] =>
[post] => Array
(
)

)

[4] => Array
(
[page] => checkout_process
[mode] => SSL
[get] =>
[post] => Array
(
)

)

)

[snapshot] => Array
(
)

)

[check_valid] => true
[language] => english
[languages_id] => 1
[languages_code] => en
[currency] => USD
[updateExpirations] => 1
[session_counter] => 1
[customers_ip_address] => 74.57.36.171
[new_products_id_in_cart] =>
[valid_to_checkout] => 1
[cart_errors] =>
[cart_country_id] => 38
[country_info] => Array
(
[countries_name] => Canada
[countries_iso_code_2] => CA
[countries_iso_code_3] => CAN
)

[cart_zone] => 76
[cart_zip_code] => j9h2n8
[cart_sid] => zones_zones
[payment] => paypalwpp
[customer_guest_id] => 2969
[customer_id] => 2969
[customer_default_address_id] => 3874
[customer_first_name] => arthur
[customer_country_id] => 38
[customer_zone_id] => 76
[sendto] => 3874
[billto] => 3874
[shipping] => Array
(
[id] => zones_zones
[title] => Special Rates (Shipping to CA)
[cost] => 0
)

[cot_gv] => 0
[comments] =>
[messageToStack] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[class] => checkout_payment
[text] => We were not able to process your order. Please
try again, select an alternate payment method, or contact the store owner
for assistance. (Invalid Parameter)
[type] => error
)

)

)

[burk]

I don't know if this makes any difference, but even on a failed transaction an account is created.

The account is missing the * required phone number.

[Jeff_Mash]

Hmmm, I wonder if you are onto something here. I just noticed an automatically created account as well, where the phone number and the date of birth are missing, both required fields.

I don't know if this makes any difference, but even on a failed transaction an account is created.

The account is missing the * required phone number.

[Jeff_Mash]

If this helps, here is where the process seems to go FUBAR. This is a direct quote from one of our customers:

"it brings me to the paypal site and then it tells me all the info like who im
buying it from (MJM Magic) and stuff like that, and then i click pay now and it
re-directs me to the MJM Magic website saying the invalid parimeter.. this never happend before i've ordered from you guys plenty of times."

[burk]

I'm guessing that the problem is in passing the country. IIRC, PayPal doesn't pass the country at all times when it's the US for a US account ... it used to. With IPN the country is already in zencart.

Just remembered a few months ago a question on one of the eBay boards - "where is Saskatchewan?", apparently PayPal didn't pass Canada in the notification.

[DrByte]

Subject: PayPal Debug log - DoExpressCheckoutPayment

'SHIPTOCOUNTRY' => '',

'ACK' => 'Failure',
'L_ERRORCODE0' => '81210',
'L_SHORTMESSAGE0' => 'Invalid Parameter',
'L_LONGMESSAGE0' => 'Country : Invalid Parameter',
'L_SEVERITYCODE0' => 'Error',

This appears to have been caused by a PayPal system update with a keyword change from SHIPTOCOUNTRY to SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE
The fix is posted here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...003#post330003

[stbede77]

Yep the update seems to be working!! Woot

Another small error customers might get is if they provide an address that doesnt match up to the one on paypal... also make sure its the primary address on your site... Anyway Thanks for the patch Drbyte

[n350zz]

Hi DrByte

I have applied the patch look at ever1 else’s faults but still the problem hasn’t been solved for me… I’m wondering if you mite have any ideas or can see any reasons in my debug posts that mite help me work this out.

Thanks
n350zz