PayPal Buy Now button using code supplied within PayPal account generates an error
Question
I've tried and tried to get just a simple "Buy Now" button to work using the code generated from within the PayPal account:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="7DKPMH8DYQQSN">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_paynow_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
Whatever I do this generates an error on clicking:
PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller's website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem.
I have searched the PayPal Help system (such as it is !) and have found nothing but a rather dodgy reference to charset= but their description of how to set that within the account bears no relationship to what I see on my UK account !
I have reduced the page as a simple test down to just the one button on its own -
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<HTML LANG="EN">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Membership Subscription</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="7DKPMH8DYQQSN">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_paynow_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
</body>
</html>
This still generates the error.
Have tried changing the charset to UTF-8 but that seems to make absolutely no difference - still the same error.
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2020-04-06 01:40:10
As best I can tell there is a problem with that particular hosted button, and so you should log into the account at https://www.paypal.com , and create a new Pay Now button via https://www.paypal.com/buttons
(It doesn't seem like the hosted ID 7DKPMH8DYQQSN actually exists ..??)
Within your PayPal account, the default language encoding can be set to UTF-8 in https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/customerprofileweb?cmd=_profile-language-encoding -> "More options". However, this should not be relevant to the problem you are having, since your button does not have a dropdown/selection
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