Non-Recurring PayPal Buttons Don't Work

I’m generating buttons within s2member and either get errors or $0.00 as the price when I use buttons that don’t have a recurring payment.

I can’t use PayPal generated buttons, because we already have 3,000+ users that may or may not need to upgrade their account.

So with the Monthly, non-recurring, one time button, with the buy now button, I set it to $53.25, but when I click it, it says $0.00 on the paypal page. I can enter a price in the item price box. But I don’t trust my customers to enter anything in!

When I use the subscription, one time, one month access button, I’m getting the ” a3, p3, and t3 parameters have not been set”

Why would some buttons work and not others? Thanks.

Also, I could never get the shortcodes to work at all. I am using the HTML code instead. I have deactivated all of my plugins and tested. Still doesn’t work.

I solved it. The PayPal generator was never outputting this:

<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="53.25" />

Once I added that, it worked!

Glad you solved it! Thanks for the update.

Also, I could never get the shortcodes to work at all. I am using the HTML code instead. I have deactivated all of my plugins and tested. Still doesn’t work.

Remember that there may also be add-ins and must-use plugins, remove those as well. If you already deactivated every plugin and it still didn’t work, you can also test the theme.

And if that doesn’t work, try testing in a clean WordPress installation. There’s something in your installation that is causing this behavior, this is not normal and I couldn’t reproduce it.

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