Paypal Payments Plugin for WordPress

Hi Guillaume,
I had to have a think abut this one. I made some changes to the way the plugin sends info to PayPal and missed the ‘item_number’ field. It’s fixed now and I’m sending you an update to test.

This only works if they don’t have a PayPal account. There is a pre-population option on the form settings which lets you set what info is collected but depending on how their PayPal account is set up it may or may not work. Can try changing the ‘item number’ field to ’email’ and collect iy that way.

Hi Jeff,
Payment confirmation isn’t possible at the moment. There is a thing called Instant Payment Notification but I can’t get it to work and can’t be sure even if I did that it would work for everybody.

If you want to see who filled in the form click on the ‘Payments’ link at the bottom of the dashboard menu on the left.

Priya,
To get the payment confirmation from PayPal you would need to set up Instant Payment Notifications (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/). It is possible to build this into the Plugin but it is complicated and I would need help. So it is on the ‘todo’ list but not at the top.

Indeed it will. Just use the form settings to change the heading to ‘donate’. You may not get oodles of money but it will trickle in.

Mike,
It appears the problem is you have a very old version of PHP installed. In using a thing called ‘anonymous functions’ that were introduced back in 2009 with PHP version 5.3. I’m sending you a version of the plugin with a fix for this.

Recurring payments are already part of the current version, you should see the recurring payment field on the form settings page.

Mike,
I’ve emailed you with an update to the plugin that will fix this.

Ok, I will look into this ASAP.

Hi Kerry,
Difficult to diagnose this one without seeing your coupon code settings. I’ve just tested the form here: https://quick-plugins.com/quick-paypal-payments/paypal-examples/ and the coupon worked. In the settings have you got the code and a percentage or fixed amount?

Hey Graham,

Thanks so much for getting back so quickly! 🙂

Its a fixed amount and the shortcode I’m using is the name of the form, the fixed amount (coupon code) is the amount I’m asking for.. I want to offer this for free for certain people.

In the form settings I’ve ticked the pre-set amount for £20.00.
Hope this helps you?

Kerry 🙂

Ok I see the problem now. The plugin checks to make sure the amount to pay is greater than zero. PayPal can’t process £0! So you can’t use the plugin to give things away for free. Not sure how to get round this one.

Ok thanks for getting back to me 🙂

Such a shame this is a brilliant plugin exactly what I was looking for, however I must have the FREE coupon part.. If you think of any ways please do let me know.

Appreciate your help Graham
Kerry 🙂

Kerry,
I may be able to do something – but it won’t use paypal. If you have a free product, paypal will just throw a wobbly. BUt I may be able to set the plugin so if a coupon results in a freebie the customer will see a thank you message but not go to paypal.

Hi Michel,
Not sure why you get this message. The line is just checking that the ‘file_put_contents’ function exists and has been part of the plugin for a long time. The upgrade to 3.7.1 was to fix a bug and provide more ways to list the reference and amounts. No changes were made to the way the CSS is saved (which is what the ‘file_put_contents’ function does). So not sure what to do next…

Hi John,
There’s a bug in the system that I’ve got a fix for. I’m sending you an update to test.

Hi Dixon,
There are no limits to the number of forms you can create. The only restriction is they they link to the same PayPal account. The level of customisation you want just isn’t possible without a whole load of custom code. If you are prepared to pay for the development I’d be happy to do the work.

If you get to the PayPal payment page then it means you have valid data. If you then attempt to make the payment and get an error message it means there is a problem with your account settings. Common causes are not using a verified account or not linking the paypal account to a bank account.

Many thanks!

Hi Bierzo,
You can only change the email to a business name if you have a paypal business account.

Thanks for your quick reply, Graham.

So, if you have a business account, you can introduce your business name instead of your email?

Anyway, in the case of individuals accounts, would it be possible to add some text which appears beside the paypal account email?

Thanks.

The plugin can only send payment details to your account. What appears on the payment page is what you have setup in your PayPal account. If you want anything other than your email address you have to have a business account.

Cesar, if you can see the ‘Waiting for Paypal’ meesage then it means the form has been sent to paypal and you are just waiting for a connection to the paypal servers. I can’t control this. If could post the URLof your payment page I can take a look and see if anything strange is happening.

It turns out the issue was related with the domain name. I was forwarding and masking a different domain to the web site mockup before I launched it. Once I added the domain name to the WP site and updated the database, it worked beautifully. Just adding this comment for future reference here.

Gauri,
The thanks URL only works if a payment is made. I’ve just tested it and it works. There is also an option to redirect people if the cancel. If you leave both options blank paypal will direct people back to the payment page.

Hi Don,
Pleased you like the plugin, it’s progressing nicely now thanks to all the suggestions from various users.
The locale thing isn’t really necessary. PayPal should detect your location and provide the local language but someone has problems so I added the feature.
But back to your problem. When you select the location and save the settings does the selector revert to Australia? I’ve just tested on my test site and I got a Norwegian PayPal page.

Hi Kurt,
I’ve being trying to fix this for a while. The problem is how the world does it’s decimals. Some use a period, some use a comma and some use both. So I can’t strip out the commas as this would mean the amount for most of europe would be wrong. BUt I shall persist and see what I can do.

Add an id to the payment input field (quick-paypal-payments.php, line 136) then run this snippet of JQuery in your page:

$(document).ready(function() {
$(‘#paypal-amount’).on(‘input’, function() {
var string = $(this);
var isComma = string.val();
if(isComma.indexOf(‘,’) > 0) {
alert(‘Sorry commas (,) are not allowed. Please enter a number in the following format: 12345.45’);
isComma = isComma.slice(0,-1);
$(‘#paypal-amount’).val(isComma);
}
});
});

HI Ian,
I thought I’d fixed this bug! Must have got lost somewhere. The much simpler soliution is to strip out the commas when the form gets processed and let paypal put them back in on the payment form. But thanks for the script – the only reason it may not work is because some countries use a comma instead of a decimal point and the alert would have to be translatable to be useful.

Hi Tony,
Can you send me a link to the payment page so I can test it. You may be getting the error message because you aren’t filling in the form. Are you using shortcode attributes like this: [qpp amount=”$12″]?