[DUG-TO] Ubercart and Paypal??

[Lynna Landstreet]

Modya wrote:

> Thanks. It seems from Paypal that they don't support subscriptions
> without having a Paypal account. The "Paypal Account Optional" setting
> says "When PayPal Account Optional is turned on, your customers who are
> new to PayPal will no longer be required to create a PayPal account to
> complete a purchase-they will go through an alternate checkout, and will
> have the option to sign up afterward. Customers who already have PayPal
> accounts will continue to enjoy the privileges of those accounts, such
> as payment history and integration with eBay Auctions, and their
> checkout experience will remain the same.
> 
> This feature is available for Buy Now, Donations, and Shopping Cart
> buttons, but not for Subscription buttons."

As someone else already commented, I don't think UberCart works via the
standard PayPal payment buttons - I haven't worked with it enough to
know exactly how it does integrate with PayPal, but I'm pretty sure it
doesn't involve generating the buttons on PayPal and just pasting them
in on your site.

Actually, sometimes you can run into problems trying to do that even if
you want to - I did recently have to add a PayPal subscribe button to a
client's site (they didn't have enough e-commerce elements for a
shopping cart module to make sense) and was annoyed to find that even
with input format set to Full HTML, it stripped out the form code every
time it saved the article! I was able to add the button to a block, but
not to a node.

Eventually I figured out that it was because the site is using TinyMCE -
 but that didn't really help because while I'm perfectly comfortable
disabling that and entering straight HTML, the client's not, and I
couldn't count on them never wanting to edit the article in question. So
I had to settle for putting it in a block on the side, and then in the
article, just directing people to the button in the block.

> Have you ever set up an UberCart with Paypal?

Not yet, but I'm likely to be doing so on at least one site in the near
future, and maybe more than one. So I'm likely to be learning more than
I ever wanted to about Ubercart very soon. :-)

I did set up the original E-commerce module with PayPal on one site, and
it worked fine up until I transferred the site from my own hosting
account to the client's host, at which point no power in the 'verse
could convince it to work again. Spent a very long time fighting it out
with said host's tech support department, but no luck. Hence the fact
that I will soon be setting up Ubercart instead. :-/


Lynna

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