Thread: paypal continue shopping button

laurateague.com

the "continue shopping" button on my cart page is not working - it goes nowhere, does nothing. i've read a lot of posts about this but can't find "the fix". can anyone help me out here? thanks so much. laura

You need to set the parameters for this button within your paypal account.

thanks for your reply. i have looked at my paypal account - i have a business account and i have searched merchant services. i can't find the how i would configure the "continue shopping" button. could you please more specifically point me in the right direction?

thanks for your help with this. laura

laurateague.com

you will find tons of ideas and procedures to follow to get your pay pal to work if you go to the forum page. just look for pay pal and all your answers will be there. I have copied and pasted my experience with pay pal and you will have "add to card" , "view cart" and "buy now" options with pay pal. good luck and hope this helps.
Hello;
I have tried for several weeks to use the BV buttons and they do not work. I have determined that the only way to have your Pay Pal buttons work properly is to do what Lady Eye stated:
1.Go to Pay Pal, become a merchant customer,
2.set up your profile with Pay Pal as to Name of product, item number, freight, sales tax et...
3. copy the code that pay pal gives you
4. paste the code into the html box provided by BV
5. place the html box on the page where you want the button to be.
6. save and publish.
Unless BV changes the code before it is chosen, the changing of the code will not work, at least it didnt with me.
This was not difficult and provided the proper options when your customer goes to pay for your products.
You can see how they work by going to
www.scanportonline.com
who knows you may end up buying something.
Thanks,
Mrmagoo144
www.videopostcards.info

thank you - i have done all of this several weeks back - as a result all of my buttons work EXCEPT for the continue shopping button. if you can help me get that one button working properly, that would be great. i am using FF, if that matters. thanks. laura
laurateague.com

You have to go back to Paypal - and find where they tell you what page the continue shopping should go to - and SET that page.

on the paypal site, i can't find any mention at all of the continue to shop button; it seems to automatically be there on the shopping cart page. am i being dense?? sorry - i just can't locate anywhere on paypal how to set the continue to shop button. i think i've looked everywhere on paypal but obviously i have missed this info. any help out there in vodaland?? please? thank you!! laura

laurateague.com

i just went to paypal.com and logged in, then went to mercant tab. when the page came up the first thing you see is add to cart button. when you fill out all the information and options that you are looking to create, then they will give you a code. copy and paste this code into a html box found on the left side of your builder. why not publish what you have so far so we can see the problem. you can see how i used the pay pal on a site by clicking on this link:
www.scanportonline.com/barrettes.html
the code you get from pay pal will include the continue shopping option. just try one of the buttons. if you try to use the pay pal buttons from the builder you will not get the continue shopping option.
if you need more help you can contact me through my website and i will walk you through this.
hope this helps,
mrmagoo144
www.videopostcards.info

hi - all buttons have worked (& are working) correctly except for the continue shopping button. no problem with the add to cart buttons. that was all easy. i'll contact you thru your website - maybe you have info about the continue shopping button. thanks. laura

my website is laurateague.com if you want to look. maybe you can see an error. thanks again.

mr magoo - i just went to your site and your continue shopping button is not working (just as mine is not working). i think the problem is Firefox, which is the browser i'm using. i think mine works in IE. thanks. laura

hi - i have so far found no solution thru either this forum or thru paypal to get the continue shopping to work correctly when using firefox. it is no problem in internet explorer, only with firefox. i did find a lengthy discussion with all sorts of possible "work around" html fixes but none of it worked for me. many sites that i access using firefox do not have working continue shopping buttons. oh, well. if anybody has a sure-fire fix, let me know! i'll try anything that i haven't already tried! thanks. laurateague.com

Hi lj

I am not a firefox regular user, but I think what happens is firefox pulls up the paypal page when you add to cart as another browser window, but when you click continue shopping the paypal page itself does not budge, two windows are open, one with the website and one with the paypal page .. so seems you need to go back to the website page and add to cart again, the changes do occur on the paypal page with the additional product added, but the paypal page itself doesn't budge until you hit continue to check out .. where with internet explorer the process seems to go through seamlessly - add to cart, continue shopping, all within the same browser window ...

IE6 till death do us part ... lol

Originally Posted by ljteague

hi - i have so far found no solution thru either this forum or thru paypal to get the continue shopping to work correctly when using firefox. it is no problem in internet explorer, only with firefox. i did find a lengthy discussion with all sorts of possible "work around" html fixes but none of it worked for me. many sites that i access using firefox do not have working continue shopping buttons. oh, well. if anybody has a sure-fire fix, let me know! i'll try anything that i haven't already tried! thanks. laurateague.com

lj did ypu ring paypal for info on this...isnt (continue shopping ) part of the payment on a paypal page?......do you think it could have something to do with the paypal rether then your pages!! you could try deleteing your buttons and going back to paypal and makeing them again. :) it may have an error in the html code it gave you. just a thought! hope this helps am pritty new to this all myself so good luck.

Originally Posted by adele1972

lj did ypu ring paypal for info on this...isnt (continue shopping ) part of the payment on a paypal page?......do you think it could have something to do with the paypal rether then your pages!! you could try deleteing your buttons and going back to paypal and makeing them again. :) it may have an error in the html code it gave you. just a thought! hope this helps am pritty new to this all myself so good luck.

no .. it's not an error in her code .. it is the way the firefox browser operates, opening a new window for every page . ..

hello, sorry i havent responded to this - i will be speaking with Pay Pal to find out why it doesnt work in Fire Fox. Another solution that I will use is to put a note on the Pay Pal page to use the "back" button if you do not see the "continue shopping" option. Thanks for pointing this out, as I like Lady eye do not use Fire Fox and did not know this was an issue.
mrmagoo144
www.videopostcards.info

thanks for all your help and attention to this. a lot of people use firefox so it's disappointing that the button can't work as it should. i'll be looking for a "fix" or an answer from paypal. thanks again. L