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by **gclass** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:20 pm

Hello,

I am a non US/UK/Canada merchant.
I have Paypal business account and I want to have people to pay with their credit cards inside my opencart site.
(yes, just like paypal direct if I was in the US).

is there a way to do it?
what is the API for in my account if I cant use paypal direct?

Thanks
G

by **cfardon** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:51 am

Hi,

I too am having problems using paypal for an Australian paypal account. Any tips would be great. If i cannot use paypal express is there any other type i can use?

Thanks in advance.

by **Qphoria** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:38 am

Paypal express not the same as Paypal Pro/Direct

Paypal Pro/Direct is only available in US and UK:
https://registration.paypal.com/pro30PaypalLogin.do - Note you can't change country to anything else

Paypal Express is planned, but needs some thought.

by **cfardon** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:38 pm

Hi, Does that mean i cannot use paypal with open cart if i use the australian paypal? or is there another way, i.e. hand the payment over to paypal and then use ipn or something to advise the cart of the payment and order?

I have just tried the "paypal" plugin, the problem is, it processes the order, but the order doesnt show up in opencart......i can see there are a lot of people with problem like this in opencart....but being a newby at this i cannot work out how they are fixing..is there a quick simple fix?

by **Daniel** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:41 pm

post a link to your site please.

I'm going to look into this again.

Could it be you have deleted all your order statuses? or changed an order status and not updated paypal's completed order status?

What about the encryption key in the settings? did you set one up?

if its none of these things then it maybe the encryption class that needs removing from the paypal module.

by **Qphoria** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:35 pm

cfardon wrote:Hi, Does that mean i cannot use paypal with open cart if i use the australian paypal? or is there another way, i.e. hand the payment over to paypal and then use ipn or something to advise the cart of the payment and order?

No it just means you can't use "Paypal Direct" where the customer never leaves. The only paypal option you have is the normal "Paypal" one where the customer is sent to paypal to pay and then returned.

by **cfardon** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:24 pm

Daniel wrote:post a link to your site please.

I'm going to look into this again.

Could it be you have deleted all your order statuses? or changed an order status and not updated paypal's completed order status?

What about the encryption key in the settings? did you set one up?

if its none of these things then it maybe the encryption class that needs removing from the paypal module.

www.housewarewarehouse.com.au/index.php

The order Statuses are still there.
Yes, am i right in assuming i just put a series of numbers in the encryption ket?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Do i have to set up an ipn in paypal for this to work?

by **Qphoria** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:22 pm

cfardon wrote:Yes, am i right in assuming i just put a series of numbers in the encryption ket?

Yes

Do i have to set up an ipn in paypal for this to work?

No. It is handled by the opencart module form.

There are already a few hot topics out there for the paypal order update problem. So I won't address that here.

by **cfardon** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:07 am

There are already a few hot topics out there for the paypal order update problem. So I won't address that here.[/quote]

Hi, I have read through the many entries in the forum regarding the issues with paypal, nothing i do seems to fix the problem. Do you have any other ideas? i have installed a lot of different shopping carts, this is the first one i have had any problem like this. i am list for ideas. any help i would be greatful.

Thanks in advance.

by **cfardon** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:11 am

Hi,

I am stil having the problem....i contacted my server people and they gave me the following reply. Any other ideas?

Curl is enabled for entire web server :

curl
cURL support enabled
cURL Information libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5

http://phpinfo.supremepanel10.com/

Plus there is no server that is running to block or prevent outside connections.
In case you have specific inforamtion that proves this statement provide it here so it can be reviewed.
If not contact your web developer and re check once again script behavior thus checking vendor documentation.

by **cfardon** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:33 pm

Hi,

Is there no one going to help me solve this problem? It seems that a lot of people are having this problem. This is the only thing stopping from recommending this cart to my clients. If i can get the paypal payment working ok, i will install open cart as my standard installations, and glady donate for each install.

Is there anyway of using the paypal ipn instead to make sure that the order is passed back over?

by **gclass** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:47 pm

Hi Cfardon,

I think it is not related to te code itself and I will explain why.

I had the same problem with orders from PayPal, and after getting angry about opencart and this thread I switched to another host and... surprise!
its work like magic! all working fine and smooth.
I am still after a solution to have credit cards without leaving my site (maybe authorize.net??) and some RTL
issues but the PayPal story is over.

I suggest you to try another host and check it (use latest version of opencart of course)

G

by **Qphoria** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:54 pm

gclass wrote:I am still after a solution to have credit cards without leaving my site (maybe authorize.net??)

I have that solution if interested
http://www.unbannable.com/ocstore/payme ... ze_net_aim

and I partially agree with the "get a new host" theory. I never saw this problem on my old host, and now that I've changed hosts, i still don't see this problem. But I have tried debugging this problem on some of my client's hosts to no avail. On one hand it is a simple php mail() call. There should be no trouble with this seemingly simple command. But somewhere the email gets lost.

But on the other hand, many people state that other scripts like wordpress and forums are emailing just fine on their servers. So its hard to say why it is happening for so many.

by **cfardon** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:44 pm

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. If I use other shopping carts, they email fine. And if i process it as a "cash on delivery" payment everything works ok. It is only the paypal script that doesn't work. I am actually a reseller of hosting services, and also have had a look at my server setups, and there should be nothing blocking the script.

I have used a shopping cart from coffee cup software, and in their cart i can process paypal payments onsite even though i use Australian Paypal. With all due respect, how are they able to process Australian payments onsite when Open Cart cannot?

by **Qphoria** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:38 pm

I've had some IPN Debug code setup on my Qphoric Domain site for a while now, as I too get random (1 out of 10) orders that don't finalize with paypal.

The past 3 weeks has actually been error free... until this morning. I got 3 orders.. all from different people, all from outside of USA. I know i've gotten international orders before that went through just fine, so I'm comparing the IPN log from the ones that didn't update to the ones that do update to see if I can figure it out.

-EDIT-
Just got 2 more orders.. both outside USA.. both didnt update the status.. researching.

by **Qphoria** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:13 pm

Possible Solution: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7056

by **cfardon** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:56 pm

Hi, I can see people talking about ipn......am i supposed to have paypals ipn pointing somewhere?

Have added the possible fix you were talking about and will test is now. Thanks