Classic / Enhanced Paypal Checkout Pages

I noticed that the regular paypal Buttons will lead you to a classic version of the checkout page whereas, the Pro Forms are instead directed to enhanced checkout pages (I can give the screenshots if you need them).

How can I make my regular paypal buttons show the enhanced checkout pages (it looks much more trustworthy).

Also, in my website I have an option to subscribe for 12 months which gives you 2 months for free thus this would give the user 14 months of membership in total. This membership was possible in the non-paid regular buttons by setting the rp=14 and rt=M. Somebody actually signed up for this membership it worked just fine) but in the pro forms, I am having an error message some thing like ” rp > 14 , rp = M. ” and the does not let the user sign up or pay (lead to paypal checkout).

This error message is coming from s2member and not paypal so how can I disable this and let the user just sign up the 14 month membership which is already working in paypal.

I will thank a ton if you can answer me by tonight…

Thanks,
Joseph

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Joseph K.

Hi Joseph.

The button shortcode has an image attribute that lets you change the button’s graphic. The pro-form doesn’t have this for Express Checkout, because that’s the image required by PayPal in its TOS. :/

Regarding the term problem, could you please post the shortcode you’re using?

Hi Christian thanks for your reply.

I am not referring to the button images. I actually referring to the Express Checkout Pages. The paypal buttons will transfer me to a Classic version of the Express Checkout Page.. whereas the Pro-Form will transfer me to the “Enhanced” Checkout page. These two look very different and I would prefer that the button would transfer the user to the Enhanced version (It’s much more user friendly).

The following 14 month membership pro form doesn’t work.
[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="4" ccaps="" desc="14 month membership" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="mywebsite.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="10" rp="14" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

But the following 14 month paypal button works perfectly.
[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="4" ccaps="" desc="14 month membership" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.umbaga.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="10" rp="14" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="button" /]

By the way, what is “rra” in these shortcodes?

The paypal buttons will transfer me to a Classic version of the Express Checkout Page.. whereas the Pro-Form will transfer me to the “Enhanced” Checkout page.

Actually, they’re two different services by PayPal. The button takes you to PayPal Standard, while the pro-form takes you to Express Checkout.

The pro-form’s shortcode looks fine, I don’t know why it’s failing. Could you please post a link to the page where you have it? If you rather not make it public, you can use the contact form. s2Member® » Private Contact Form

About the [hilite mono]rra[/hilite] attribute, it’s slightly different in the button and pro-form:

[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) -> rra[/hilite]

rra=”1″ Reattempt failed payments? Possible values: 0 = do NOT reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails; 1 = yes, DO reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails. With PayPal® Standard integration, PayPal® will retry a maximum of 2 times when you set rra=”1″; after that, a Subscription would be terminated due to Max Failed Payments having been reached. PayPal® Standard integration does NOT make it possible to configure Max Failed Payments, it simply defaults to a value of 2 whenever rra=”1″, indicating that you DO want to retry failed payments.

[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) -> rra[/hilite]

rra=”2″ Reattempt failed payments? Possible values: 0 = do NOT reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails; 1 or higher = yes, DO reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails. With PayPal® Pro integration, PayPal® will retry a maximum of 2 times whenever rra=”2″; after that, a Subscription would be terminated due to Max Failed Payments having been reached. With PayPal® Pro integration, the value of this attribute also configures Max Failed Payments. So a setting of rra=”2″ means that you allow a maximum of 2 failed payments.

Hmm.. if you go to the paypal -> profile -> Custom payment pages -> Preview. You can preview the Classic / Enhanced Checkout pages which you are calling Standard / Express. Anyway, can we configure the button so that it takes the users to the Express Checkout Page instead of Standard Checkout?

As for the error message, I just sent you a small screenshot. The screenshot contains the error message that I get when I visit the pro-form page with 14 month membership. Please let me know if this is not enough.

And thanks the support during late night..

-Joseph

You’re welcome. :)

I don’t know how to use the PayPal Standard button to take the user to the Express Checkout page. If you find how to do that with a button generated over at PayPal, then you could try that adding the data needed for integration with s2Member. Knowledge Base » Using PayPal created buttons

Got the email with the screenshot but, if possible, I’d like the URL to the page where the pro-form is giving that error in order to look at the HTML.

I’m guessing that it could be a problem with the parsing of the shortcode being corrupted by another plugin or the theme. The odd thing is that the button generated doesn’t have that problem but the pro-form does. Anyway, it’d be good if you tried changing the theme and deactivating other plugins in that page to test it. For this you could try these:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-theme/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-organizer/

You can disregard what I said before about the theme/plugin conflict causing a shortcode parsing. This is related to the way you can set up the terms with PayPal, and it varies from one service to the other (Standard, Express Checkout).

I think what the error is telling you is that you can’t set it at 14 months, because that’s more than 12 months, and they have a term for years “Y”, so you should be using that. I remember that pro-forms allowed more flexibility than buttons, though, so I’m not sure.

I don’t remember where I last saw what the terms can be… I’ll look for it.

Found where Jason mentions what’s allowed for buttons, which shows you can do the 14 months, but can’t find what about Express Checkout, even after googling for it. http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2878&p=9035#p33473

I’m emailing Jason now to ask.

I think I found the documentation for it: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECRecurringPayments#id086520F027U__id086520M00BF

The number of billing periods that make up one billing cycle. The combination of billing frequency and billing period must be less than or equal to one year.

Thanks for the heads up on this request for support.

s2Member Pro will allow 14 months, but only if you have rr="BN", meaning it’s a Buy Now button.

Otherwise, s2Member Pro is subjected to the limits set forth by PayPal’s Recurring Billing system, which states that recurring billing periods CANNOT exceed 1 year. I know this differs slightly from PayPal Standard Buttons, and I have no idea why, but that’s the way it’s written none the less. Thus, s2Member Pro Forms are not capable of charging customers in intervals that exceed 1 year, 12 months, or 365 days.

https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/api/createrecurringpaymentsprofile-api-operation-nvp

Thanks for all the answers and support