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Originally Posted by sinisterpain

Clicking your link takes me to a message about not having donated in 1 month. You appear to have another hack integrated in the paypal hack. Also did you install the paypal easy donate? Something is not right unless you edited, installed another hack conflicting with it or you did not set it up in the admin CP. You must set your preferences in paypal donations through the admin CP.

Yes, I have PayPal Easy Donate installed and running at the time through the link provided on my forums. I've not yet set up on my navbar link for this hack as I want to make sure it's running correctly before I have it linkable by users.

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

1. You must make sure that you have either a Business or Premiere account with Paypal.

I have a Premiere Acount

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

2. You must have Paypal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) turned on in your Paypal Profile.
1. You do not need to have it pointing at any particular file for this system to work as the system will tell Paypal where to send the IPN to credit your users and notify you of the transaction.

K, this I did not have previously set up. I went into my profile and turned it on without using a url.

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

3. You will need to run through the donations settings at the end of the installer and make sure that you have all the required information in there.

I installed this on vB 3.6.3 and used the information that Andreas provided and ensured I followed his directions.

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

4. Please note that this system can be placed into test mode (default setting is ON when system is first installed).
1. This setting tells the system whether to speak with the real Paypal Server for transactions or with Paypal's Sandbox (testing) server. If you wish to test the system before going live you will need to have access to Paypal's Sandbox server, you can sign up for access there at: http://developer.paypal.com.

I don't know enough about the PayPal's Sandbox, but I did register for an account with it. I've got more reading I guess to do on that portion....

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

5. You will need to input your Paypal Account Email into the settings
6. You will need to input the full URL to your donate.php file so that your users can make it back to your site after payment
7. You will need to input the full URL to your ppverify.php file so that Paypal can send your IPNs to you and your system can process the information and give your users credit for the donation

Yes, this was all done on initial install.

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

8. You must create a goal(s), then create a button(s) and point your button(s) to the goal(s).

This I didn't do on initial install, but what if I don't want to use 'goals'? According to your sentence you are saying that I must. Please let me know...

Thank you so much for an in depth reply about this. Very kind of you to take that kind of time out to help a stranger.