Problems with Paypal Standard

[mcsmom]

'm really frustrated with trying to get PayPal standard integration to work (with Joomla!).
I looked on the civicrm demo site, but I'm not really "getting" how the integration is supposed to work. If I click on the Paypal button (Save time. Checkout securely. Pay without sharing your financial information.) I get a lot of error messages because I haven't filled in the "required" information. I thought that the idea of using a secure processer like paypal was that we wouldn't have to collect credit card information on our site?

I believe I followed the instructions here carefully
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/PayPal+Website+Payments+Standard+and+Recurring+Contributions
I've double checked the settings.

So, I go to adminstration configure payment processor, select paypal standard. I put in the sandbox test merchant account information.

When I test either the test drive or a live page, I press submit, I am taken to the paypal  sandbox account login page with the email already filled in, and I enter the password.  (with my test customer account), but there is nothing there, just the account information.

Shouldn't it have the name of the sandbox organization and the contribution amount already set?

I must be missing some crucial step somewhere.

[Dave Greenberg]

Elin - PayPal has been doing modifications / updates on their Sandbox for PayPal Standard. I think this may be why you're having difficulties. You are correct that once you login you should see the "contributing to" organization and amount. We'll be reviewing our code relative to their modifications in the next few days and will post back.

Regarding the demo configuration - which is currently set for PayPal Pro... I can submit the initial contribution form at http://demo.civicrm.org/drupal/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&action=preview&id=1 without filling in any of the credit card or billing address info. However, this takes you to the PayPal "express" sandbox - which requires the "tester" to be logged in for processing to continue - so thats as far as you can get on demo. Did you get a different behavior?

[mcsmom]

I was using the Joomla! demo, so that may be the difference.

Thanks for following up--I'll keep checking back to see if you come up with something! 

[greenmachine]

I am perhaps having a similar problem. Scenario:

-- Using PayPal Standard
-- Have a developer.paypal.com account, and a sandbox pseudo-account at www.sandbox.paypal.com
-- Can access the sandbox paypal donation page properly if using "buy now" generated code from Paypal (https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business= ... blah blah)
-- All default settings in CiviCRM except PayPal Standard selected as processor and my sandbox pseudo-account's e-mail address entered for "Username -- TEST" field

Problem:

-- Cannot successfully do a test transaction using CiviContribute's "test drive contribution page" process
-- Instead of going to the sandbox paypal donation page, I get the sandbox paypal login page (similar to described above) when completing the transaction


CiviCRM generates sandbox.paypal.com/xclick/blah&blah&blah URLs, but I can't get any URL that starts with sandbox.paypal.com/xclick to do anything useful (seems to work in the non-sandbox paypal.com, though).

Maybe this has to do with Paypal monkeying behind the scenes, I don't know.

[greenmachine]

Further info ... if I try the "test drive" process in a browser that is currently logged into PayPal Developer center and my Sandbox pseudo-account, I get this message (instead of the login page):

"You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks. To enter the PayPal website please click on the Welcome tab.
If you are already logged in, please click on the My Account tab to continue."

[greenmachine]

Seems like it is confirmed that the xclick URL path is no longer supported in sandbox?

http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=sandbox&thread.id=5151

[Yashodha Chaku]

Which version/revision of CiviCRM are you currently using?
This problem regarding the Paypal cmd variable has been fixed in latest 1.8 release. If you still want to go ahead with the same revision you can find the solution here

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,568.msg2296.html#msg2296

Hope this helps!

[greenmachine]

I didn't realize 1.8 was released. I am running 1.7x. I'll look at that other thread.

[greenmachine]

Thanks - changing from xclick to _xclick in two places in PayPalImpl.php seems to fix my problem with the sandbox.