Custom Amount?

Hi all-

I’ve been trying nearly every solution I could find in the forums but I just can’t get this working. I bought the Pro version of the plug-in after reading in the forums that this was possible.

A few specs: I’m running version 130816 of the plug-in on WordPress 3.6. My client does have Paypal Payments Pro.

Continuing… I have a client that wants to accept donations, both as either one-time or recurring monthly. The Paypal Pro-Forms look great except I’d like to be able to insert a field to accept a custom dollar amount. In theory, this seems like it should be a simple thing but I’ve been hitting walls all day.

Can anyone point me to some recent documentation that might have escaped my searching or perhaps get me going in the right direction?

Many thanks!

Andrea

Sorry if bumping isn’t protocol… just trying to get an answer and I see that mods have been active on the forums since this was posted.

A little help, please?

Thank you for your inquiry.

The best way to do donations is to use the HTML-style buttons for PayPal. You can have Users input a custom amount that way. There’s a good Post here by Raam that details how you can do this:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/can-s2member-accept-donations-for-non-profits/

Thanks so much for your response.

Unfortunately, the donate button isn’t what the client is looking for. They really want an integrated solution. The pro form that came packaged with the plug-in would have been ideal if a custom amount was possible. I’ll have to look for a different solution.

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@andreainblue

They really want an integrated solution. The pro form that came packaged with the plug-in would have been ideal if a custom amount was possible.

The Pro Forms are not (by default) capable of doing this, but you might be able to accomplish this with a little custom code if you absolutely need to. s2Member encrypts all of the information with Pro Forms to keep it impossible for Users to change this price normally, but you can create a custom Pro Form template, and change the amount value based on an input field that you create in this template.

See: Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?

If you create a field in this Pro Form template, you can get the value that Users pass into this field, and use it to change the amount that you charge a User (either recurring or non-recurring) using the information here:

Knowledge Base » Using Variables In A Shortcode

You would want to use the second example in this article:

<?php
add_filter ("ws_plugin__s2member_pro_paypal_checkout_post_attr", "my_paypal_pro_checkout_form_attr");
function my_paypal_pro_checkout_form_attr($attr = array()) {
if($_POST["something-custom"] === "some custom value") {
	$attr["ra"] = "10.00"; // Adjust price dynamically
	// And/or, you could adjust other attributes too
	// $attr["rp"], $attr["rt"], etc.
}
return (array) $attr;
}

Past that, sorry. I can’t really say how this could be possible. I’ve never had anyone ask for this capability with Pro Forms before.