How to test making a payment

Hi again,

So I had a customer try to make a purchase on my account today and they filled out all their credit cart information without having a paypal account and clicked proceed and got a payment cannot be processed error. Then they set up a paypal account, and tried to make a payment using their paypal account, but it lead them to a page where it would not let them use their credit card.

So how do I test this to make sure this doesn't happen??? How do I know if it works or not? Do we have to use paypal? Can a buyer just have a credit card to make a purchase?

order.php is where the ecart is located.

what paypal system are you using?

So I am using paypal standard. I was able to do another test payment with a different credit card on a different computer and the order was able to be processed, so I'm not sure what the problem is with the other credit card. Maybe it was just a credit card problem.

However I do have a new problem. On the test payment that went through, the sizing information that the customer has to enter into the HEIGHT and WIDTH fields did NOT show up on the receipt. The only information that showed up on the paypal receipt was the description and item number and very little information about the buyer. Can the ecart details be attached to the receipt or emailed to us? Also, when a purchase is made, can ecart have a notification email sent with all the information?

order.php

on the confirm page, there is a collection of hidden elements used to pass the product details to paypal.

in the hidden elements there will be the following 4:

<input type="hidden" name="on0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" id="on0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="os0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" id="os0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="on1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" id="on1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="os1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" id="os1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?>" value="" />

set the value of the on0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?> element to Height.

for the os0_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?> element, use the height binding from the cart object.

set the on1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?> element value to width.

for the os1_<?php echo $WA_Store_Cart_Index+1; ?> element, use the width cart column binding.

because of the way paypal standard works, eCart will not generate an email receipt. you should rely on the paypal system for the email receipt.

OK great, like this???

<input type="hidden" name="on0_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" id="on0_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" value="height" />
<input type="hidden" name="os0_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" id="os0_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" value="<?php echo $eCart1->DisplayInfo("Height"); ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="on1_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" id="on1_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" value="width" />
<input type="hidden" name="os1_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" id="os1_<?php echo $eCart1_Index+1; ?>" value="<?php echo $eCart1->DisplayInfo("Width"); ?>" />

So will this send me the height and width values on my paypal receipt?

yes, that looks correct.