How to configure PayPal in VirtueMart 2

[AH]

Paypal Express is not the same as PayPal standard so not really a "replacement" ?

[ssc3]

In terms of customer experience the two plugins can be made to look and operate in almost identical ways.

Customer clicks on button.
Customer is taken to the PayPal order form.
Then chooses between payment by PayPal or credit card.
Then are then taken to the PayPal order confirmation page
and just like Standard the merchant can set the Express confirmation page to be on PayPal itself.

I can set Express up so the average customer would have a hard time telling the it apart from Standard.

Under the skin they are of course very different, but that part is invisible to the customer.

For instance Express passes the order details directly from the merchant server to PayPal's.
The is more secure than standard which passes the order details through the browser
where items and prices can be potentially manipulated by the customer.

In this integration full order details are also passed to PayPal.
This means if you order a "Nice Saw" you can log in to PayPal and see the words "Nice Saw" on the order form.
Plus any attribute data such as colour or size. With Virtuemart's current implementation of standard you will just see an order number.

[AH]

For instance Express passes the order details directly from the merchant server to PayPal's.
The is more secure than standard which passes the order details through the browser
where items and prices can be potentially manipulated by the customer.

Are you implying that the current implementation of the Paypal standard plugin is inherently insecure and open to fraudulent manipulation?

In this integration full order details are also passed to PayPal.
This means if you order a "Nice Saw" you can log in to PayPal and see the words "Nice Saw" on the order form.
Plus any attribute data such as colour or size. With Virtuemart's current implementation of standard you will just see an order number.

Can this be turned off in PayPal express? At the point the customer needs to add payment details, many shop owners do not want to "flood" the payment page with a list of items for yet another review.  They just want to show what payment is required and get the payment completed.

[ssc3]

Are you implying that the current implementation of the Paypal standard plugin is inherently insecure and open to fraudulent manipulation?

It is perfectly possible and well documented on how to manipulate the information going to PayPal in standard.
This is why Virtuemart checks the currency and order total of the IPN response sending the merchant a warning email in cases of discrepancy.
Virtuemart can detect this but only after the order has gone through PayPal.

However the manipulated order will still appear in your PayPal account as accepted and PayPal will send out emails showing the order as accepted.

Can this be turned off in PayPal express?

For large orders a little mini scroll bar will appear.
The more items bought the more important it is to check the accuracy of the list.

This information is also used in the PayPal account.
You can log in to PayPal and see the details of what you have actually bought.
The PayPal emails will also use this information.

[AH]

SSC

Good to see the clarification of your first post comment relating to security of payments using paypal standard plugin and VM2 integration.

VM will not send out a confirmed e-mail as the IPN will error and send an error e-mail of such an occurence to the store vendor. This is an important clarfication!

So the answer to the question relating to optionally sending product detail to PayPal express checkout is ?
Why does a customer who has already added items to the cart, viewed the cart, seen the items throughout the checkout process need to do a further check through a list?  When I pay with my credit directly on a VM site using Paypal Pro such a feature is not provided and for a good reason! It is not needed and interrupts the payment flow!

The paypal e-mail is pretty much irrelevant for the checking of order lines especially when the order is e-mailed to the customer via VM

However, you are offering a free plugin so you should be praised for giving something back!

[ssc3]

You would still end up with hacked orders in the PayPal account.

PayPal recommend that orders should be encrypted and I see no reason to disagree with that.
The more security the better. No sense in letting hackers get even a toehold on your website.

Not sure how displaying the order details slows the order process down?
It takes a couple of seconds scan the list and there are no extra buttons to press.

This is not a new plugin. It was released over a year ago and showing the order details has been
quite a popular feature among merchants. I have had a few requests for more information,
but yours is the first for less!

It would actually quite trivial to program in. The difficult bit is sending the full order details.
However if I do get enough requests for this option, it might actually might get included.
It would certainly be quicker than answering these emails!

[AH]

I will pass this over to Alatak to see what her opinions are on their standard PayPal offering

[ssswisss]

I HAVE SAME PROBLEM:
PLEASE HELP:

SYSTEM :virtuemart Version 2.0.20b AND Joomla! Version 2.5.14

shop works good. I sell virtuel download product..
After PayPal payment order Status in Pneding and System send no email with download link..

Status shall be automatish corfirmed after PayPal payment.. and system must send an email with download link...
please help..

If i Change order Status in admin Panel manuel, System send email with DOWNLOAD link.. I must Change order Status manuel to confirmed...

i can also pay for it if someone help me and solve this Problem


THANKS

[Maxim Pishnyak]

You need to update your VM.

[RobHilary]

Hi, sins the last update of vm problems with payment via PayPal.
Now you can place an order and select paypal and when you should be redirected to paypal you get a white screen with a lot of text.
Does anyone here have any answer on how to solve this issue?


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[eag]

I have configured as a payment method Paypal, but when I select this method of payment, at checkout, loading the website with a server 500 error, but the error log of the server does not register the error, so I have no clue as to where the problem is.

Does anyone else has had this problem? Solved how?

thanks in advance

VM 2.0.26a
Joomla 2.5.17

[jjk]

You may try an update to VM 2.0.26c. It includes one or two fixes for issues with PayPal.

[eag]

Thanks, the update fix it.

[jjk]

You will probably need another update to 2.0.26d, because apparently the 2.0.26c the pagination is broken.

[eag]

thank you very much jjk, had read post that talked about this ... but I do not want to believe it. 

in "Virtuemart 2 - Live Update" any pending update is listed, but if you look in detail, see the URL of the update file is: http://virtuemart.net/component/ars/repository/virtuemart/virtuemart-2-0-26c/comvirtuemart-2-0-26d-zip