Paypal - add to cart currency issues

[adrian5750]

Hi Folks
Trying to put together a fairly simple Paypal cart page - five editbox inputs each with an Add to Cart button -
then a Checkout button.

My first time trying this using WYSIWYG - so I am probably doing something silly!

Clicking the 'Add to cart' button takes you to the Paypal page, but you get this error message

"You may only add items denominated in U.S. Dollars to this Cart for this merchant. If you would like to purchase items using a different currency, remove all items from this cart and then add an item in your desired currency."

I've selected Euro as the currency, and I've used this particular Paypal ID before using Paypal-generated buttons...

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks
Adrian

[Pablo]

Please note that the PayPal objects are just wrapper around standard PayPal functionality.
Everything is processed by the PayPal server, so perhaps your PayPal account is wrongly configured?

[adrian5750]

HI Pablo
Thanks for the reply.
It was a Paypal 'funny' - which went away....... working OK now...

Next question - how can I have the visitor choose an option from a drop-down list,
(postage) and have the price for that option transferred to Paypal when they hit 'add to cart'.

The site is here

http://www.imagesofwestcork.com/images_ ... to_ga.html

and it's the Postage section that's causing me trouble.

It's working - but it's kind of klunky at the moment... separate 'add to cart' buttons for each postage option .

It'd be nice to have a drop-down list for postage - but how do you pass the actual numerical value result of the drop-down
list to Paypal ?

Thanks
Adrian

[Pablo]

There is an example form template for PayPal options in the Form Wizard.

[adrian5750]

HI Pablo

Thanks for that - I didn't look there...

So can I just create a form with the 'postage' section in and will that then update the same shopping cart that the Paypal buttons are linked to ? -
or do I need to wrap a form around all of the buttons ?

Thanks
Adrian

[Pablo]

The PayPal buttons are complete forms, they should not be part of another form.
The form created by the form wizard does not use these buttons but demonstrates how to build a PayPal 'button' from scratch.

[adrian5750]

OK - so I can't mix and match...

Just so I know - I cannot pass a value from a drop-down list across to Paypal using the ready-made WYSIWYG
Paypal buttons ?

Is that correct ?

So if I wanted to do that, I'd need to do the same thing as the Forms Wizard shows....

Thanks
Adrian

[Pablo]

You can add options to a PayPal buttons, but this will not affect the price of an item. They can only be used to add additional information to the order.

[adrian5750]

HI Pablo

OK, thanks - now I understand <g>

Adrian