Emptying PayPal Shopping Cart

[garyd]

My PayPal Shopping Cart stores the selected products after a customer has checked out but I need to somehow empty it once they check out. How do I this? Is there a Web builder setting I am missing or is it done via the receiving PayPal account? Any help much appreciated.

[Pablo]

The cart should automatically be emptied on checkout.

[garyd]

The cart should automatically be emptied on checkout.

Yeah, that's what I thought but it definitely doesn't empty Any ideas what might be happening?

[Pablo]

It turns out to be a little bit more complicated...

You will need to specify a return URL in the properties of the PayPal button. Otherwise there is no way to know if the transaction was completed.
On that page you will have to add this code:

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<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
   paypal.minicart.reset();
});
</script>

[bigdaddyk]

I know this thread is over a year old but I wanted to post this because it my help someone else.

Adding this additional code will also re-render the PayPal Mini cart icon and remove the product item count that makes it appear that there are still items in the cart on the "success" page:

<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
paypal.minicart.reset();
function updatePayPalCart(product)
{
var total = 0;
var cartItems = paypal.minicart.cart.items();
cartItems.forEach(function(item)
{
total += item._data.quantity;
});
$('#PayPalShoppingCart-badge').text(total);
if (total > 0)
{
$('#PayPalShoppingCart-badge').show();
}
else
{
$('#PayPalShoppingCart-badge').hide();
}
}
updatePayPalCart();
});
</script>

Took me forever to figure out Pablo's solution did in fact empty the cart contents! The icon had me tripped-up for quite awhile.
I also added it to my PayPal "cancel" order page.

I love this program even though I rarely use it these days!