Paypal on 2 sites (having Issues)

Hello All,

I have paypal set up on 2 sites owned by the same person ( me )
I spoke with paypal and they said I needed to make some modifications to the Final html form for paypal.

He actually called it the html form post for paypal.
I can't seem to find that file. Could he have meant the paypal.php file?

My issue is I can only set the settings for the return etc to 1 site on paypal so that means my other site is left without a place to go or info to pass.

I hope that made sense. Any help would be GREAT!

Here is the code that needs to be added maybe someone can tell me where this would go.

---- <input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://www.mysecondsite.com/secondIPN/IPN.php">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.mysecondsite.com/secondreturnpage.html"> ------------

Thanks so much for reading & any help you can provide me.

Regards,
Devon

This has already been answered by DrByte in another of your postings:

DrByte:

In your PayPal website settings, you can only choose "one" return destination. That's fine. Zen Cart will specify the right one to override the settings when the "other" store attempts access.
ZenCart does not use the settings in your PayPal for the return

Thanks Kobra.

I did remember that but Paypal told me different so I guess I was a bit confused.
When I read that last post it brought another question to mind.

Is it necessary to use the PRIMARY email address on both sites or may I use each sites email addy for each store.

I am using 2 different versions of ZC on each site.
Zen Cart 1.3.6 would not process when I left it alone as Dr Byte instructed me to do. The reason I believe he told me to do that was because at that time it was only 1 ZC and 1 normal paypal shopping cart.

I need to know if I should make the modifications to the paypal html form post file?

Thank you.

Is it necessary to use the PRIMARY email address on both sites or may I use each sites email addy for each store.

From the instructions in the ZC PP IPN:
Primary email address for your PayPal account.
NOTE: This must match EXACTLY the primary email address on your PayPal account settings.

I need to know if I should make the modifications to the paypal html form post file?
I use PP for several things and have never altered this.

Ok.

I just did a test sale. It worked fine on both sites.
On both tests it works fine and returns to the proper page on both sites with or without the same e-mail address.

I did make the change to the primary on both so that works as well & THANK YOU!

NOW... Its been doing this from the start on all orders through paypal it shows on paypals page

Payment For Quantity Price
thesite.com
Item #1 1 $17.67 USD
Subtotal: $17.67 USD
Shipping & Handling: $0.00 USD <b> *** THERE IS A S/H charge on the ZC site but paypal won't recognize it. ***</b>

Any way to fix that so It passes all the information for the paypal receipt as well?

Sorry if I'm a pain in the butt!

Many many Thanks!
-Devon

I think that this passing of information has been a limitation that I am not sure has been solved as I know that DrByte assures that ZC passes this information to PP but for some reason it is not being used - so you are not the first - you might look at the "express" PP option ( can not have both IPN and express) but I think that this might fix this

When using the PayPal IPN module, only the final purchase total is sent to PayPal for processing and receipts. Zen Cart manages all the line-item and subtotal details.

If you use the Express Checkout module, all the details are shared also with PayPal (as long as no discounts apply to the order).

You can safely use one or the other. Using both at the same time on the same site will just leave customers confused about which PayPal module to select.

Thanks for the corrections DrByte

Hello,

let me start by saying I wish I could edit or Delete the post I made re this issue again yesterday. I'm sorry I even posted that now.

With that being said, My Problems are back & maybe were never even corrected even though I thought they were.

Here is my current issue.

I'm running two versions on ZenCart.
The version that is working now is 1.3.6. Now this did not work from the start until I did a test order then made the .01 refund in paypal which at that point it added the order to ZC. Prior to the refund I saw nothing.

Now the 2nd ZC site is version Zen Cart 1.2.6
I did the same thing and the transaction went through on paypal but nothing came back. I also did the refund & still nothing is showing.
The email in the paypal mod is set to the main email for paypal as instructed.
Now this site was processing orders first until I made the changes.

My main issue is the site its working on now is the new one and is not getting the order like the old ZC 1.2.6

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Sincerely,
Devon

Okay- you seem to be having other problems as well. We need to get all of the facts in one place and not spread out over several threads.

What is your URL(s) so the problem can been seen? What kind of hosting are you on? What version of php and MYSQL? Have you turned on the PayPal error logging? Has your host made any changes recently?

Kim:

Okay- you seem to be having other problems as well. We need to get all of the facts in one place and not spread out over several threads.

What is your URL(s) so the problem can been seen? What kind of hosting are you on? What version of php and MYSQL? Have you turned on the PayPal error logging? Has your host made any changes recently?

haha I agree on the all in one place I admit I freaked out last night when this started.

What is your URL(s)
The one that is working now is kiteskiteskites.com
the one that isn't is wind-wheels.com

What kind of hosting are you on?
Sashbox.com the same one this forum is on.

What version of php and MYSQL?
PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard-log

Have you turned on the PayPal error logging?
Not sure about this one where would I do that?
Has your host made any changes recently? Nope he's on holiday at the moment but I did just speak to him & I believe no changes have been made.

Thank you so much for the help.

-Devon

Which site is using which version of Zen Cart?

Bare with me I believe I have fixed it.
wind-wheels.com is using Zen Cart 1.2.6

But that has since been fixed & I believe I found the problem.

I took out the return url on paypal return url and left it blank.
and set the paypal Website Payment Preferences to OFF with no retun url.
I then set the Instant Payment Notification Preferences to http://wind-wheels.com/ipn_main_handler.php

It fixed both sites & is returning info on both as far as I can see.

I'm double testing it now.
I'll update once I finish all tests.

Thank You for your support!

Regards,
Devon

Sorry for the late reply on this one. But it IS fixed & those issues are solved.
Thank You for everything.

:-)