Paypal return page

hi, I’m using the standard paypal option with “specific post/page (buy now) buttons” to provide access to specific pages. when a customer purchases access, they get routed to paypal’s site until they get automatically re-directed back to my site which then displays this plain, grey

[ dustyseco.com ] says…
Thank You! Your transaction has been approved.
Continue (click here) { links to purchased content }

where and how can I easily modify this page?
learning from another forum discussion, it appears that I can specify a custom template in the button shortcode
but I’m not clear how that custom template would include a link to the purchased content.

thanks

Ah, I think that would be a PayPal page template, I’m not familiarized with PayPal, so I’m not sure exactly what they’re called.

But I think you would add a template=”name-of-template” to your shortcode.

Hope this helps. :)

sorry, I’m afraid I’m lost now… (I already brought this up in the customer support forum so maybe I’ll find some other help there). I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT, EDUAN. but now I just don’t know where to add template and why?

I AM a developer and I can figure things out… just hoping to save me some hours of figuring out… and the instructions don’t make it very clear: all I want is a custom ‘THANK YOU’ page that the user sees when they get re-directed from PayPal. (via a standard paypal button for a specific page/post access link).

instead, the user sees this ugly default page which has the access link.

and that access link is all I want on my custom thank you page.
thanks to your pointing me into the direction, I was able to change add the “success” parameter to the paypal button short code so now the user DOES get redirected to the right page… just no access link on there!!

thanks again.

all I want is a custom ‘THANK YOU’ page that the user sees when they get re-directed from PayPal. (via a standard paypal button for a specific page/post access link).

You can try the [hilite mono]success[/hilite] attribute in your button’s shortcode. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> success[/hilite]

I hope it helps. :)

right. thanks.

if you read my complete post above, the SUCCESS attribute works now.
but on my custom ‘thank you’ page there is no access link. so, really, all i wanted was two things:

1) a custom ‘thank you’ page (ACCOMPLISHED)
2) a link to the sp_access_url (NOT WORKING)

thanks agaom

I’m sorry I missed the line where you mentioned using the success attribute.

Okay, you have a these options that I can think of:

– Edit the default thank-you page’s template. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® PDT / Auto-Return -> Auto-Return Page Template[/hilite]

– Use PHP to generate an access link in the custom thank-you page you point to in success.

– Just have a message in the custom thank-you page, saying that he should check his inbox for an email with the access link. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Specific Post/Page Confirmation Email[/hilite]

I think the last one may be the best.

I hope it helps. :)

Thank you very much!
The last option is indeed my current solution.

But how do I use PHP to create the access link? Is that information part of the codex?

Yeah, it’s in the codex. http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/registrations/c_ws_plugin__s2member_register_access/#src_doc_register_link_gen%28%29

:)

nice. so now I see that I can actually redirect the user straight to my premium content. I use the paypal-button-generated access URL as the SUCCESS parameter and that would direct users from paypal’s confirmation page straight to the content they purchased. brilliant.
in a world where very click counts, this is nice…

thanks again.