[psalzmann]

Originally Posted by Mythotical

Ok problems now:

Got the file uploaded via admincp, but when I do a test purchase and everything goes fine, it redirects back to my site from paypal where the receipt should be but nothing is showing up. Ok next, IPN I assume isn't being sent, plus I can't figure out why it won't show a download box. Any help much appreciated.

Ronin, might wanna get your moderators on your site in check as I did not appreciate being banned for defending you in the shoutbox and needing to get a question answered.

Good one. I myself haven't even tested the return receipt back from paypal (too many other things to deal with) but a few of my customers have used the the system to accomplish the following:

1. I added "Usergroups" to the "Edit/Add Products". If a usergroup is defined with a comma for that product, he/she can click order. I set this as "FREE" for the "license" and made a "service" for "installation" at a rate of $20.00. This basically means, the software is free to order / download (for the proper usergroup allowed to download/order), and you can pay $20 to have us install it for you. With that in mind, the system was "modified" to accept FREE orders (and to NOT go to paypal.com and to present the "user" with a Download Now link if FREE) instead. If the "amount" is more than zero, it will take the user to paypal.com for payment before presenting the "download now" button/menu.

2. I have had about 4 payments of $20.00 since then. To me, this sounds like the "return receipt" from paypal is in fact working, that and I looked into the vblogs/ folder to find 4 actual files complementry from the "author" of the script which writes nice paypal IPN datafiles (make sure its working, check this folder and site read/write permissions to that vblogs/ folder.

To me, it sounds like it's working... (on my end) so I didn't really test myself to make 100% sure, but I plan on upgrading this store to meet my needs in the coming weeks.

I did receive your PM about help, I'm sorry I did not reply, however, at the point of actually downloading this, reviewing this and learning what was needed to change to complement my requirements, it turns out it's almost a new script from what I've added.

I plan on writing custom hooks to actually "license" the customer, send required emails off (this script lacks order and update emails about orders) and we're already looking into integrating this with the "HelpDesk" mod for support tickets. So, what I suggest for you is to simply play around with it, at least get your paypal working, review the "ARRAYS" in the script (since this is the base of many peoples problems in this thread).

It would help if you knew PHP, or could easily "read out" what the author has provided in the script for his concept and work from it.

I don't mind sharing some of the code I've written to fix the errors, but right from the beginning, this didn't work as I expected, so I started to tweak from there. Even if I wanted to help you, I really couldn't since my copy of the purchase.php is about 4 times larger than the original now, and would be a disaster in the least.

Let me know what you need help with, I could offer some assistance like the code for the updated paypal stuff. Also, keep in mind, I think for all this to work with paypal, you'll need to be verified and have required "account status" to use the ipn tools along side with the other features within the script.

BTW - It appears I just noticed a "bug" for my system. The bug is this:

I see 4 orders from the Admin CP > Purchase > Main. They are at the top of the page.

However, just recently, A customer said he placed an order, selected the $20 paypal payment option, and he never finished the transaction. Now, it appears (in my admin cp) that his order actually "Made it" into my successful orders table even though his payment wasn't completed. So to me, this is a bug perhaps when he goes to paypal, and doesn't complete the order and returns to the site from paypal (I think). But then I think thats not possible seeing how paypal doesn't have any "Links or buttons" to return the user back to the site unless they make payment. (the only other way to return the user to the site without paypals help is that user actually clicking BACK on his browser) which shouldn't update the order... so I'm not sure where this bug is coming from now... so I'll have to keep you updated.

Anyhoo, thats my story up till now. Any suggestions from the author could help me here too (in finding out why a paid order for "service" license at $20 is without payment is actually showing up in: Admin CP > Purchase > Main (top table is services) bottom is licenses.

Regards,

Peter