Force landing page to pay with Paypal account

Hello!
I would like to know if there is any way to force Paypal’s landing page to show the “Pay with my Paypal account” page as default instead than the “Create a Paypal account” that i’m getting now each time i test the Express checkout method on my website.

To be clear:
– I have a Paypal merchant with Paypal Pro NOT enabeled.
– s2Member says that i can use Paypal Pro forms even if i don’t have a Pro account, so that’s what i did by generating a recurring billing form and making sure that the short code included only accept=”paypal” without any credit cards.
– Every thing is working fine, when i fill the form and then click to checkout, i’m directed to the Paypal Express checkout page. The thing is that this Express checkout page is offering to “create a Paypal account” when landing and i want my customers to land on “Pay with my Paypal account” when they land without having to spend time understanding what’s going on before they they find where to click to show the login page…

I’ve seen on many website, trying to checkout myself with express checkout, how when landing on the Paypal page, i’m offered directly to login with my Paypal account. Checking the Paypal API, i found that it can be done by passing “landingpage=Login” when requesting the Paypal Express checkout page… and i assume that in my case, it can be done only by s2Member and the way it communicates with Paypal…

So do you think you have a solution for me? maybe a hack???

Thank you for your help by advance!

Also, I tried to see if I can set this up in my Paypal account… but no way…

Any help would be appreciated :)
I just purchased s2Member Pro, so I’m still configuring it and testing it on our website. And I really need the Paypal landing page to show login option by default…
Thank you!

I’ve seen on many website, trying to checkout myself with express checkout, how when landing on the Paypal page, i’m offered directly to login with my Paypal account. Checking the Paypal API, i found that it can be done by passing “landingpage=Login” when requesting the Paypal Express checkout page… and i assume that in my case, it can be done only by s2Member and the way it communicates with Paypal…

If you want to add this to your URL, you can switch the Shortcode’s output attribute to url, and create a button out of the URL yourself, with this added to the URL.

Something like this:

<a href="[s2Member-PayPal-Button... output="url"]?landingpage=Login">My Button Goes Here</a>

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) -› output

Thanks Bruce! and sorry for not answering earlier… i though i would be notified if anybody replied but i didn’t get any email and just thought that i had no replies…

I cannot benefit from this solution because i’m using Paypal Pro forms… no buttons… and i’m the new released feature –Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro forms -› Wrapping Multiple Shortcodes as “Checkout Options”–
please see my test page on our website here: https://www.cleargreen.com/s2member/membership-option-page/membership-paypal-checkout-form

So I’m wrapping multiple checkout options that are displayed in a drop-down menu on my test page…

Any solution using the Pro forms?

Thank you so much!

Sorry about the delay in response. I’m taking a look at this now.

Thanks for your patience.

I talked with Jason (Lead Developer) about this. Right now you’re going to have to edit line #151 of this file to accomplish this:

/s2member-pro/includes/classes/gateways/paypal/paypal-checkout-in.inc.php

You’d change this line:

$paypal_set_xco["LANDINGPAGE"] = "Billing";

To this:

$paypal_set_xco["LANDINGPAGE"] = "Login";

Based on the documentation:

I’m submitting a change to the source code to add a filter to this file that will make it possible to change this via filter, as gone over in this article in the next release of s2Member so you don’t have to keep editing this file when s2Member gets updated:

Knowledge Base » Hacking s2Member® Via Hooks/Filters

I’ll update this thread when that’s done. Thanks!

I can confirm this will be in the next version of s2Member. When this is out, you can accomplish this by creating a Must-Use Plugin with the following code in it:

Knowledge Base » Hacking s2Member® Via Hooks/Filters
See Also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Bruce. Reason: Missing a comma

Thanks Bruce!
I will let you know how it worked for me as soon as i test it
:)

Worked like a charm!
The only thing strange is that i didn’t find this file “checkout.inc.php”…
i found this one instead: “paypal-checkout-in.inc.php” it has the extra “-in”… maybe you can explain why?
AND THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING THE MUST DO PLUGIN SOLUTION IN THE NEXT RELEASE!!!

The only thing strange is that i didn’t find this file “checkout.inc.php”…
i found this one instead: “paypal-checkout-in.inc.php” it has the extra “-in”… maybe you can explain why?

That’s my fault. I told you the wrong file name. So sorry about that. I’m editing my reply to reflect his.

Cool!
Hey… you guys are great :)

Bruce please… can you edit the Must-Use code you gave above? you’re missing a comma after ‘s2hack_change_landing’

Tested the corrected code added to mu-plugins/s2hacks.php on the last version: s2Member® Pro v130816
IT IS WORKING PERFECTLY!
Thank you!

Bruce please… can you edit the Must-Use code you gave above? you’re missing a comma after ‘s2hack_change_landing’

Ah sorry about that! I must have deleted that while I was formatting it. I’ve changed it. Thanks so much for pointing that out!