Error help – what does this mean?

A customer has reported this error on the re-direct back from PayPal to WordPress.

What does this mean & what do I need to change?

The error hasn’t been reported before so wondering if it was just a glitch?

Hi Baysup, in your WordPress admin go to the page where your registration form shortcode has been placed. In the shortcode there is a custom=”xxx” variable. This variable must start with your domain name. For example custom=”http://www.awebsite.com”. If you need to pass other variables through the custom attribute you can add a pipe “|” after the web address.

ie custom=”http://www.awebsite.com|second variable here|third here”

Hope that helps!

Hello Baysup,

Epix is right, just a little thing, your custom value can’t have the http://. Only the www and after.

Hope this helps. :)

Hi Guys sorry for no reply for ages I forgot to check back.

We’re still getting the problem but I wanted to confirm what you mean because on our registration page (membership page) we are simply using a PayPal button & there is no link in that to our URL?

Here’s our page http://www.baysup.co.uk/membership/ there’s no registration required as such this is just a means for us to collect repeat subscriptions.

Can you explain a little more for me?

I think it might be that I used Paypal to create the button as I wanted more functionality than i could do using the S2 create button function. I wanted to allow multiple options of membership to buy & also to collect postal address of the user. So when you create the button code in PayPal & enter the return URL etc you HAVE to enter http://

Anyone have any thoughts?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  baysup baysup.

Hello Baysup,

Could you please paste the shortcode you’re using here. Thanks. :)

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="9J2EGA65R66VN">
<table>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Please Select">Please Select</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">
	<option value="Single Person">Single Person : £15.00 GBP - yearly</option>
	<option value="Two people">Two people : £30.00 GBP - yearly</option>
	<option value="Family (2 adults / 2 children)">Family (2 adults / 2 children) : £50.00 GBP - yearly</option>
</select> </td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on1" value="Full Name (first &amp; surname)">Full Name (first &amp; surname)</td></tr><tr><td><input type="text" name="os1" maxlength="200"></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on2" value="Full Address (for membership)">Full Address (for membership)</td></tr><tr><td><input type="text" name="os2" maxlength="200"></td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal — The safer, easier way to pay online.">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  baysup baysup.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  baysup baysup.

This might help explain what I tried to do in PayPal too.

http://screencast.com/t/ZemICVU0

Hi Eduan – any thoughts on the code above?

Thanks

pete

Hello Pete,

Have you tried using a shortcode? Cause the names don’t really apply when using the HTML version. Also, sorry for the delay.

– Eduan

Hi Eduan, not sure what you mean by that?

Using the S2 plugin in wordpress i can’t create the payment button with multi options as shown in baysup.co.uk/membership so i created a button using paypal merchant solutions account. what is a shortcode?

Sorry i’m not a techie :)

Thanks

pete

No problem, lol.

A shortcode looks something along these lines:

[some-random-shortcode some-attribute another-attribute]

Basically it’s something like a PHP function, but in a shortcode format, so that we don’t need the PHP tags.

Did you follow the following instructions when creating the button?:
Knowledge Base » Using PayPal created buttons

Hope this helps. :)