About: Mike Whitney

Hi again Jason,

I’ve given up calling PayPal. Since your transaction was fine I can only assume there are problems with both my PayPal accounts. After calling them three times today they suggested I create a Sandbox account. I don’t understand why I would since it worked for you. I was merely calling them to find out why my transactions on my accounts failed. I thought there was some setting in my accounts as to default payment or something that needed changed. It seems so clear their entry level people answering the phones are not trained well enough to answer questions relating to this nature and I don’t have any more time to work on this.

Unless somebody else is still having problems I guess we need to consider my case closed for now.

When my site is completely live and somebody makes a purchase I guess we will find out.

Thanks.
Mike

Jason,
I still cannot get this working with my different PayPal accounts. I’ve gone into both my PayPal accounts and set available funding sources to credit cards. I’ve un-clicked my bank accounts. I still get the same error. I don’t know why it works for you. I’ll have a friend try with their PayPal account.

Can I ask two questions?

1) When you got past your PayPal log-in screen does it give you any options to select funding? Mine always says default payment. Which like I said I changed in Paypal.
2) When you tested you used the PayPal Pro form?

This is the shortcode I’ve been testing with:
[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="test" desc="$.50 USD / Monthly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.websiteaddress" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra=".50" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by  Mike Whitney.

Hi Jason,
Created another log-in for you.

Sent PCF.

Hi Jason,
I will try and get in contact with PayPal tomorrow.

Please use my OK as to go ahead with testing on my site.
Thanks.
Mike

Ok I’m getting real tired of calling PayPal but here is the latest for my case. It seems like the left hand does not know what the right hand does with their programs. It’s very frustrating.

PayPal said they checked the logs of my failed transaction and that the log shows S2Member using the PayFlow API for the Express Checkout Recurring Payment. So according to them it’s not using the PayPal API for that transaction.

In order to do recurring PayPal payments through the PayFlow side I need reference transactions enabled on my account which they denied me at this point.

I am all set-up for recurring payments and Express Checkout so if we can use the PayPal API for the Express Checkout and PayFlow API for all non PayPal payments I should be all set. Is this possible? They also gave me this link for you. https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECRecurringPayments

If you read back through my posts everything is working except for PayPal payments with recurring billing. If I cannot get this to work I will move away from PayPal and use Authorize.net or something. PayPal is extremely frustrating. It would be nice though to allow users to log-in and fund payments with their Pay Pal account.

Ok submitted PCF again with IE. I got the email confirmation back as well.

Here is a summary where I am at.
Currently using PayPal Pro with Payflow and do have recurring billing option.

Test results:
1) Recurring subscription with credit cards. Functions fine.
2) One Time Payment with credit cards. – Functions Fine.
3) One time payment with PayPal payment – Functions fine.
4) Recurring subscription with PayPal payment – Fails transaction.

Sent you a SS in the PCF as I do see one difference after logging in to PayPal to confirm the payment.
a) When you process a one-time payment after logging into PayPal you have the option of selecting your funding source. Like credit card or bank account.
b) When you process a recurring payment after logging in there is no option to select funding source.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by  Mike Whitney.

I will resend the PCF here in a little bit. Here’s my service detail:
Service Summary
Service Status Mode
PayPal Payments Pro Live —
Hosted Checkout Pages Live —
Payflow SDK/API (Full Access) Live —
Recurring Billing Live —
Paypal Express Checkout Live —

What do you mean with this statement?
As far as I know, s2Member uses the Express Checkout API when the user chooses Express Checkout in the pro-form to pay.

How does the user select the Express Checkout API? On ProForms there is no option. If the user selects PayPal they are directed to a page to log-in and complete the payment. On the ProForm they click the Paypal icon and then click Checkout With PayPal.

I don’t know if it means anything but I was working with PayPal Merchant Technical Services and Business Services and they said they need to turn on reference transactions on my account. It could take up to 48 hours. But I will try again then.

Sent PCF

Thanks.