Thread: paypal cart says info incomplete

Hi All
For weeks I have been happily adding paintings to my page http://humnew.com/blog-buy-menu.html and everything was working fine. Today I added another and every BUY NOW link to the cart says Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your entries and try again.
I re-published and re-booted but nothing has changed. Pretty hard to sell stuff this way. Can someone help?
Many thanks
L

It looks like your hidden values are empty.. no price no product name... something has changed them.

Karen

I also today started to do the pay pal buttons I to is getting the same info incomplete this button is add to cart all info is there does anyone no why this is happening

Without seeing the code, there is NO way to tell. Either the code isnt being transferred.. , or theres an error in how its transferred, or the code isnt correct and conveying it properly... I can just guess from this standpoint.

Karen

I Hope This Gets Cleared Up Soon I Cant Figure It Out. I Expected To Launch The Site Easter Sunday. If Not Just Got To Do Like My Other Site Copy And Paste Html Code And That Will Delay It Another Week

Originally Posted by jkadin

I Hope This Gets Cleared Up Soon I Cant Figure It Out. I Expected To Launch The Site Easter Sunday. If Not Just Got To Do Like My Other Site Copy And Paste Html Code And That Will Delay It Another Week

I would recommend instead of using the BV paypal buttons... log into Paypal and generate your own payment buttons that way.

Im wondering how you are doing these buttons. I made a page the other day and my buttons are working fine.

Are you insterting a button each time.. or are you making one button then copying it to the next product and open its properties and changing? If you are doing the later, thats most likely why you are having issues, it works while its still in your cache, but when thats cleared out it stops working. NEVER CUT AND PASTE critical coding like buy now buttons from an existing button. You either copy and paste RAW code, or insert a button each time.

Karen

The Button That I Tried Was Not A Copy And Paste It Was A Fresh Button Which I Had A Customised Than Went And Did Another Button That Was Not Customised Same Problem. Guess The Website Now Will Delayed

How about a link? or post the coding itself.

Karen

In the case of the first site, the coding to the https paypal is incomplete, or is NOT going to her account the code stops at:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

The complete code should be

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...966591666b2c5f

which is the code from one of my working buttons... so.. some of the linkage is missing..and as I said I cant tell without SEEING what you have done. Or the paypal account itself is configured wrong to accept standard website payments. Make sure in your profile you have unchecked the encrypted buttons thing

I just went to the teddy bear site, and added to cart just fine.

Karen

What I did was i checked it out on site that I am rebuilding which is already on the web Right now I am actualy building 2 websites at once the one that I have with another host at this time and a new that I will launch next week and when the old one is finised i'm going to transfer that domain over so i decided to use pay pals html for the buttons thanks

In my teddybear site thats all html codes from paypal they work great .The thing is I am redoing that site with blue voda so my links are working ther on the web that site will also be big like the one I hoped to launch next week. But i will do the same get the html codes from paypal. Thanks anyway Karen

jk..

Well sorry none of those things worked for you, but as i said.. theres some coding missing somehow. If the html from paypal works better than thats what I would use.. I would tend to use that anyway for a bigger site, because of the easier customization, but thats me..preformatted buttons are sometimes limited in what they do. First time i have seen these types of errors tho, which is why it has to be something to do with the coding and transfer of the info, and without seeing it entirely, I cant tell.

Karen

Hello again-
My question was the one that started this thread ( I asked to be notified by email when replies were made but none came- what did I do wrong?)

Anyway- my codes were working fine with paypal and now they are not. How could the code be incomplete? I so love the BV buy now buttons- it makes my gig so much easier.
the page in question is http://humnew.com/blog-buy-menu.html
I have not changed anything re the buttons- they just stopped sending complete info to paypal.

PayPal has changed its code.
There is a field that was used for the URL of the image to use as cart header. In terms of code, it was:

<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="">

Before, it would work ok, even if there was no value. Now, if there is no value, the entire line must be deleted.

So does that mean the BV Buy Now buttons are no good because PP changed the code? Will BV be updating the buttons to the new code?
In th meantime, how do I delete that line of code? I can open the HTML window for the button and see the code, but I don't know how to change it.

thanks so much for your help!
L

Originally Posted by HumBird

So does that mean the BV Buy Now buttons are no good because PP changed the code? Will BV be updating the buttons to the new code?
In th meantime, how do I delete that line of code? I can open the HTML window for the button and see the code, but I don't know how to change it.

thanks so much for your help!
L

I believe from what I have seen in other posts lately in this forum that when Vodahost bring out the next updated version of BV this issue will be fixed.

In the meantime as far as removing the code goes I haven't been following this but if you can open the html box and SEE the code that needs removing then I would presume you highlight that line of code and hit the delete button?

Please read Important PayPal Code Change