[DUG-TO] Ubercart and Paypal??

[Andrew Mallis]

Re: paypal buttons:
If using TinyMCE, click the 'disable rich text' button below the  
textfield and then select FULL HTML as your input filter.

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On 11-Feb-09, at 2:11 PM, Lynna Landstreet wrote:

> 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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