Paypal Express Checkout - Bypassing my customized Paypal style

I recently got an email from a customer complaining about only being able to use Paypal. I looked at my shopping cart and found that the Paypal page my customers go to is no longer the page style I customized in Paypal.

The customers can use a credit card if the click on 'Check Out As Guest', but the customers don't notice it, and the page screams Paypal. No mention of using a credit card anywhere.

I contacted Paypal and was told there is a new page style for Express Checkout, and that accounts have switched to it. The only thing used from my page style was the small logo.

So when my customers are sent to Paypal, the link looks like this:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-00000000000000000&useraction=continue

Paypal told me if I add &force_sa=true to the end, it will go to my page style.

So it would look like:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-00000000000000000&useraction=continue&force_sa=true

The problem now is that I can't figure out where to add the &force_sa=true to the 'continue'.

Any help would be appreciated.

Can't edit my thread title.

Somebody here has to know how to add '&force_sa=true' to the link generated for the Express Checkout page.

Jim Oaks:

I recently got an email from a customer complaining about only being able to use Paypal. I looked at my shopping cart and found that the Paypal page my customers go to is no longer the page style I customized in Paypal.

The customers can use a credit card if the click on 'Check Out As Guest', but the customers don't notice it, and the page screams Paypal. No mention of using a credit card anywhere.

I contacted Paypal and was told there is a new page style for Express Checkout, and that accounts have switched to it. The only thing used from my page style was the small logo.

So when my customers are sent to Paypal, the link looks like this:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-00000000000000000&useraction=continue

Paypal told me if I add &force_sa=true to the end, it will go to my page style.

So it would look like:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-00000000000000000&useraction=continue&force_sa=true

The problem now is that I can't figure out where to add the &force_sa=true to the 'continue'.

Any help would be appreciated.

hi, did you finally figured it out by yourself, this is an old thread but no answers since Jan.

recently I came across this issue as well. sometime you will get the good paypal page with all shopping line items details with subtotal, but sometimes it shows brief paypal page with total price only, you have to click to view limited details.

I changed the /inludes/modules/payments/paypalwpp.php, around line# 1617, append "&force_sa=true" to zen_redirect($paypal_url ......) part;