Hi -

I have coded my "cancel/return" URL to go back to the page people were on when they hit "add to cart" (see in red below); however, PayPal returns to the generic cancel page set up in my profile. Can I override the general return URL in the PayPal profile with the specific return URL in the BV button? Or do I have to send everyone to the same return page regardless of where they were? I don't know why my code isn't working.... Can anyone see where the error is?

I am trying to do 500 of these today so need to get cracking! Thanks so much for any help!

TP

BV Page and Return URL: http://www.williamlewispaintings.net...olla-cove.html
PayPal profile generic return URL: http://www.williamlewispaintings.net...nt-cancel.html

HTML code in my BV button where the "return" is getting ignored:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="lewispaintings@sbcglobal.net">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Original Oil Painting: Size 8x10 / La Jolla Cove by William Covel Lewis">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="001-LJC-8x10">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="249.00">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/payment-successful.html">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/oil-painting-la-jolla-cove.html">
<input type="hidden" name="receiver_email" value="lewispaintings@sbcglobal.net">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="shopping_url" value= "http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/oil-painting-la-jolla-cove.html">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="image" name="submit" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/sc-but-01.gif" alt="Make payments with PayPal, it's fast, free, and secure!">
</form>

Never mind, I am having too much trouble with the BV add to cart button - it is sending the return to other pages that are not coded in the button (I swear!). I am just going to use the html box to put in the add to cart code generated from PayPal (and also provided very helpfully by Naval) that behaves more predictably based on the code that is actually present (hello? isn't that what code is supposed to do? All "ones and zeros" and nothing more, etc, etc, no magical concoctions...?) Good day all...

TP

What you set up in your paypal profile generally overrides whatever coding you put in your buttons, so if you have something in your profile you need to make it match your coding or, take it out or contact paypal on how to override this.

Karen

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Gosh, everything was working fine at 1:00 AM this morning and now it doesn't work. Naval - if you see this - the code you provided was so good. I don't know what happened. Today, when I am ready to copy this a zillion times, now when I hit continue shopping it says "open new browser" window.

Here is a page that has your code and the direct from PayPal code. Both are saying to open a new browser. This was not happening before... What have I done wrong?

http://www.williamlewispaintings.net...nia-coast.html

Thank you Karen for that info, very helpful. Do you know anything about the Open new browser issue?

TP

OK, I think I've got it figured out well enough to move forward. The code below at this point I believe is a combination of Naval's that he provided to me in the "PayPal buttons" thread of yesterday and the PayPal generated code. The way I made it stop having the "open new browser" error is to make the top line be the one in red, instead of something like form target=paypal.

I have found that when you remove all items from the cart, that the "return" button is a bit confused and it may return you to the page of the first item you had in the cart not the last page you were on but this is a quirk I can live with.

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com//en_US/i/btn/x-click-but22.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="lewispaintings@sbcglobal.net">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Original Oil Painting: Size 8x10 / La Jolla Cove by William Covel Lewis">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="001-LJC-8x10">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="249.00">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/payment-successful.html">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/oil-painting-la-jolla-cove.html">
<input type="hidden" name="shopping_url" value="http://www.williamlewispaintings.net/oil-painting-la-jolla-cove.html">
<input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_promo_code" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_product_category" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_shipping_method" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_user_address_change" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-ShopCartBF">
</form>

TP

Nope, I dont. I dont use paypal in this manner, but..I would assume it might be so they can continue shopping and it was coded into their script, but thats just a wild guess.

Karen

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