WOW, this is phenomenal… I could have used this sooooo many times. I’m definitely using this on PayPal sites.

Thanks again Charly, great work.

David
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WOW, this is phenomenal… I could have used this sooooo many times. I’m definitely using this on PayPal sites.

Thanks again Charly, great work.

David
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.-= David Walsh – Product Launch Consultant´s last blog ..Product Launch System =-.

Thanks David,
I was inspired after helping a number of clients out with paypal buttons – I knew there had to be a better way.

I have ideas for the next release too (you never really finish tweaking things do you?).

If anyone has anything they would like to see in this plugin let me know.

Cheers,
Charly.

Thanks David,
I was inspired after helping a number of clients out with paypal buttons – I knew there had to be a better way.

I have ideas for the next release too (you never really finish tweaking things do you?).

If anyone has anything they would like to see in this plugin let me know.

Cheers,
Charly.

Hi Charley. Thank you for this very useful plug in. Just one question: where do I set the formatting attributes?

Many thanks… Paul

Hi Charley. Thank you for this very useful plug in. Just one question: where do I set the formatting attributes?

Many thanks… Paul

Hi Paul,

Thank you! I’m very proud of effort! The formatting attributes are added inside the short code brackets.

I’ve just updated the plug-in so that it will also support paypal hosted (or saved) buttons. I recommend you grab Version 0.2, instead of 0.1, because I’ve fixed up some of the formatting as well.

This example shows the usage of the shortcode for a hosted button, with formatting. This formatting will use your own custom image hosted on your site, that is 200px wide, center the button in the line and leave 20px space above and 10px space below:

[ paypal type="hosted" buttonid="1234456" imageurl="http://yourdomainname.com/images/buynow.jpg" imagewidth="200px" divwidth="200px" margintop="20px" marginbottom="10px" ]

Remember to remove the spaces before and after the [ ]

Here are the formatting variables:

The plugin will wrap the paypal button in a tag. The formatting options available are:

divwidth = the width of the div. This should be at least the width of the image.
Default – 100%

text-align = the alignment of the image / text within the div
Allowable values:
left – text is left justified
right – text is right justified
center – text is centered
If left out, the format is taken from the page format

float = position of the div on the page
left – the div ‘floats’ on the left
right – the div ‘floats’ on the right
Default – if this value is missing, the div is centered on the page

margin-left = the amount of space between the div and the text to the left of the div (particularly good to use when using float=right)
Default – if this value is missing, the page format is used

margin-right = the amount of space between the div and the text to the right of the div
(particularly good to use when using float=left)
Default – if this value is missing, the page format is used

margin-top = the amount of space to the line above the div
Default = 10px;

margin-bottom = the amount of space to the line below the div
Default = 10px;

Love to know how you go using it.

Charly.

Hi Paul,

Thank you! I’m very proud of effort! The formatting attributes are added inside the short code brackets.

I’ve just updated the plug-in so that it will also support paypal hosted (or saved) buttons. I recommend you grab Version 0.2, instead of 0.1, because I’ve fixed up some of the formatting as well.

This example shows the usage of the shortcode for a hosted button, with formatting. This formatting will use your own custom image hosted on your site, that is 200px wide, center the button in the line and leave 20px space above and 10px space below:

[ paypal type="hosted" buttonid="1234456" imageurl="http://yourdomainname.com/images/buynow.jpg" imagewidth="200px" divwidth="200px" margintop="20px" marginbottom="10px" ]

Remember to remove the spaces before and after the [ ]

Here are the formatting variables:

The plugin will wrap the paypal button in a tag. The formatting options available are:

divwidth = the width of the div. This should be at least the width of the image.
Default – 100%

text-align = the alignment of the image / text within the div
Allowable values:
left – text is left justified
right – text is right justified
center – text is centered
If left out, the format is taken from the page format

float = position of the div on the page
left – the div ‘floats’ on the left
right – the div ‘floats’ on the right
Default – if this value is missing, the div is centered on the page

margin-left = the amount of space between the div and the text to the left of the div (particularly good to use when using float=right)
Default – if this value is missing, the page format is used

margin-right = the amount of space between the div and the text to the right of the div
(particularly good to use when using float=left)
Default – if this value is missing, the page format is used

margin-top = the amount of space to the line above the div
Default = 10px;

margin-bottom = the amount of space to the line below the div
Default = 10px;

Love to know how you go using it.

Charly.

[...] Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes The original Paypal Shortcodes plugin is great, but a little too basic. This is a really great way to place your own wares into individual blog posts in a quick, organized way. You can add “Buy It Now” or subscription buttons to any post or page. The short codes are really straightforward and easy to understand, and again, this is totally free. [...]

What a friendly chat we had yesterday…and rrrG…I hope I don’t break anything by trying to get this to work in WP 2.7.1 … we talked about my need to upgrade … kinda not looking forward to it because I have so much working that well, works, and I’ve modified my theme and paid for CSS cross-browser compatibility modifications and etc. etc.

I’ll be in touch soon!

Best,
Dainis

What a friendly chat we had yesterday…and rrrG…I hope I don’t break anything by trying to get this to work in WP 2.7.1 … we talked about my need to upgrade … kinda not looking forward to it because I have so much working that well, works, and I’ve modified my theme and paid for CSS cross-browser compatibility modifications and etc. etc.

I’ll be in touch soon!

Best,
Dainis

Hi Charly,

I use Thesis 1.6 with WordPress and wishlist-member.

This plugin is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I have a draft page being set up to take membership subscriptions via paypal and have a hosted button. When I place the code into a page it becomes very large and pixelated. Hence looking for something better. Yours I think does the job admirably. I have a slight problem which is that the hosted button code also includes a side box containing the button id etc which is hidden on the published page. Unfortunately your code doesn’t hide it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Both sets of code are as follows:

[paypal type="hosted" buttonid="8VM5V3CV9G3DA" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif" imagewidth="350px" divwidth="350px" margintop="10px" marginbottom="20px"]

The page isn’t published on the navbar yet but is available here: http://www.businesscapturemastery.com/charter-membership-subscription-page which I guess I’ll need to change once I can get my payment page corrected…

Hi Charly,

I use Thesis 1.6 with WordPress and wishlist-member.

This plugin is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I have a draft page being set up to take membership subscriptions via paypal and have a hosted button. When I place the code into a page it becomes very large and pixelated. Hence looking for something better. Yours I think does the job admirably. I have a slight problem which is that the hosted button code also includes a side box containing the button id etc which is hidden on the published page. Unfortunately your code doesn’t hide it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Both sets of code are as follows:

[paypal type="hosted" buttonid="8VM5V3CV9G3DA" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif" imagewidth="350px" divwidth="350px" margintop="10px" marginbottom="20px"]

The page isn’t published on the navbar yet but is available here: http://www.businesscapturemastery.com/charter-membership-subscription-page which I guess I’ll need to change once I can get my payment page corrected…

Sorry I messed up entering the paypal button code. Here it is:

.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..Podcast Alley Hash =-.

Sorry I messed up entering the paypal button code. Here it is:

.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..Podcast Alley Hash =-.

DOH! I’ve just realised your blog is stripping out the html. Please mail me and I will send it to you.

Regards,

Steve
.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..Podcast Alley Hash =-.

DOH! I’ve just realised your blog is stripping out the html. Please mail me and I will send it to you.

Regards,

Steve
.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..Podcast Alley Hash =-.

Hi Charly,

Public thanks to you for helping me with my paypal button issue. Fantastic support.

Regards,

Steve
.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..BCM#2 – 5 Steps to Sustainable Business Capture Growth =-.

Hi Charly,

Public thanks to you for helping me with my paypal button issue. Fantastic support.

Regards,

Steve
.-= Steve Price´s last blog ..BCM#2 – 5 Steps to Sustainable Business Capture Growth =-.

Charly – like your plugin concept and contributions. Please contact so we can arrange to talk regarding your services: WP / Wishlist/ Affiliate/ PayPal Integration, etc.

Charly – like your plugin concept and contributions. Please contact so we can arrange to talk regarding your services: WP / Wishlist/ Affiliate/ PayPal Integration, etc.

Perfect for my little shop, and easy to use, but I am having one problem, despite having changed the currency_code value to GBP, when I click through it still shows in USD on the Paypal checkout. Halp!

Perfect for my little shop, and easy to use, but I am having one problem, despite having changed the currency_code value to GBP, when I click through it still shows in USD on the Paypal checkout. Halp!

Hi Charly, Plugin looks great.
How would I set up an initial payment of $XXX.00 and then add the buyer to a subscription of $XX.00 each month?
.-= Jeremy young´s last blog ..Changing The Postion Of Your Adsense Ads =-.

Hi Charly, Plugin looks great.
How would I set up an initial payment of $XXX.00 and then add the buyer to a subscription of $XX.00 each month?
.-= Jeremy young´s last blog ..Changing The Postion Of Your Adsense Ads =-.

Hi Katie

Per our email conversation – glad I could be of assistance and it it working for you!.

Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Katie

Per our email conversation – glad I could be of assistance and it it working for you!.

Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Jeremy,

You would use subscription button and set a trial period for the initial payment.

Full instructions are here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

However, here is the start of the code I would use:

[ paypal type="subscribe" email="payments@arvoreentreasures.com" itemno="12345657" name="Description" noshipping="1" currencycode="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" a1="300" p1="1" t1="D" a3="47" p3="1" t3="M" src="1" sra="1" rm="2" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" notifyurl2="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="scriptcode" imagewidth="100px" ]

The values of:
a1=”300″ says invoice $300
p1=”1″ and t1=”D” says for 1 day
a3=”47″ says invoice $47
p3=”1″ and t3=”M” says per month
src=”1″ means the payment recurs
sra=”1″ means to reattempt billing if it fails.

So, essentially, you’re charging a $300 once off fee, and the next day charging $47 that will recur every month.

Hope that helps.

Charly
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Jeremy,

You would use subscription button and set a trial period for the initial payment.

Full instructions are here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

However, here is the start of the code I would use:

[ paypal type="subscribe" email="payments@arvoreentreasures.com" itemno="12345657" name="Description" noshipping="1" currencycode="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" a1="300" p1="1" t1="D" a3="47" p3="1" t3="M" src="1" sra="1" rm="2" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" notifyurl2="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="scriptcode" imagewidth="100px" ]

The values of:
a1=”300″ says invoice $300
p1=”1″ and t1=”D” says for 1 day
a3=”47″ says invoice $47
p3=”1″ and t3=”M” says per month
src=”1″ means the payment recurs
sra=”1″ means to reattempt billing if it fails.

So, essentially, you’re charging a $300 once off fee, and the next day charging $47 that will recur every month.

Hope that helps.

Charly
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Glad to be of assistance Steve!
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Glad to be of assistance Steve!
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Thanks heaps,
What does the itemno=”12345657″ variable do?
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Thanks heaps,
What does the itemno=”12345657″ variable do?
.-= Jeremy young´s last blog ..Changing The Postion Of Your Adsense Ads =-.

Hi Jeremy,

All the variables are described on the FAQ page for the plugin – it’s fairly configurable ….

itemno is a variable that you assign that relates to your Product ID or SKU. It can be ommited if you don’t need it, but it does make the sale email from Paypal look more professional…

Cheers,
Charly.

Hi Jeremy,

All the variables are described on the FAQ page for the plugin – it’s fairly configurable ….

itemno is a variable that you assign that relates to your Product ID or SKU. It can be ommited if you don’t need it, but it does make the sale email from Paypal look more professional…

Cheers,
Charly.

Thanks Charly, appreciate your help.
.-= Jeremy young´s last blog ..Changing The Postion Of Your Adsense Ads =-.

Thanks Charly, appreciate your help.
.-= Jeremy young´s last blog ..Changing The Postion Of Your Adsense Ads =-.

Hi Charly,

Was this resolved? I’m having exactly the same problem. Could you let me know how to fix?

Thanks.

Hi Charly,

Was this resolved? I’m having exactly the same problem. Could you let me know how to fix?

Thanks.

Hi Andy,

Sure was, the issue was a change between Version 0.1 and 0.3 of the plugin.

The usage on this post was for 0.1 but I made changes in 0.3 which I updated on the FAQ page at the repository and not here (very bad of me!) I will be rectifyng that in the coming week.

The format for the shortcode in Ver 0.1 was:
[ paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="uremail@urdomainname.com" item_no="test" name="a test for $12.99" no_shipping="2" no_note="0" currency_code="GBP" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="/wp-content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px" ]

You’ll see that many of the variables have the underscore character ( _ ) in them.

In Version 0.3, I changed that to remove the underscores so the usage is now:

[ paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="uremail@urdomain.com" itemno="test" name="a test for $12.99" noshipping="2" nonote="0" currencycode="GBP"
imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="/wp-content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px" ]

Full usage details can be found on the FAQ Page on the WordPress Repository:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

Cheers, Charly!
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Andy,

Sure was, the issue was a change between Version 0.1 and 0.3 of the plugin.

The usage on this post was for 0.1 but I made changes in 0.3 which I updated on the FAQ page at the repository and not here (very bad of me!) I will be rectifyng that in the coming week.

The format for the shortcode in Ver 0.1 was:
[ paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="uremail@urdomainname.com" item_no="test" name="a test for $12.99" no_shipping="2" no_note="0" currency_code="GBP" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="/wp-content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px" ]

You’ll see that many of the variables have the underscore character ( _ ) in them.

In Version 0.3, I changed that to remove the underscores so the usage is now:

[ paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="uremail@urdomain.com" itemno="test" name="a test for $12.99" noshipping="2" nonote="0" currencycode="GBP"
imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="/wp-content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px" ]

Full usage details can be found on the FAQ Page on the WordPress Repository:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

Cheers, Charly!
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Great thanks… that worked.

Great thanks… that worked.

Hi Charly,

This works very well, thanks! Is there a way to make the Paypal form ask for quantity with the paynow button?

Steve

Hi Charly,

This works very well, thanks! Is there a way to make the Paypal form ask for quantity with the paynow button?

Steve

Not working for me…
The Paypal page always return an error in the link used.
Is there something special that i have to take care off in my Paypal account? I am trying to add a hosted button on a simple WP page…
Even reduce to the minimum parameters, it is not working… Thanks for your help.

Not working for me…
The Paypal page always return an error in the link used.
Is there something special that i have to take care off in my Paypal account? I am trying to add a hosted button on a simple WP page…
Even reduce to the minimum parameters, it is not working… Thanks for your help.

Hi Stephane,
Can you post your shortcode here or use our contact form to send me the details?

If you put your shortcode here, please make sure you put spaces before the [ ] so it shows up.
Thanks!
Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Stephane,
Can you post your shortcode here or use our contact form to send me the details?

If you put your shortcode here, please make sure you put spaces before the [ ] so it shows up.
Thanks!
Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Seber,
It doesn’t at the moment but I’ll add it to the features requests!
Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Seber,
It doesn’t at the moment but I’ll add it to the features requests!
Charly.
.-= Charly Leetham´s last blog ..Entrepreneurs, OCD and Children =-.

Hi Charly,

In case you didn’t receive my email, here is the shortcode i tried :

[ paypal type="hosted" buttonid="YQ2UA3QRHTQ66" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/es_ES/ES/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" ]

It bring the visitor to a Paypal error page saying something like : The link used to make entries in the PayPal system contains an amount of item with an incorrect format. (original text in spanish).

If you have an idea what can cause that, your help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.

Hi Charly,

In case you didn’t receive my email, here is the shortcode i tried :

[ paypal type="hosted" buttonid="YQ2UA3QRHTQ66" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/es_ES/ES/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" ]

It bring the visitor to a Paypal error page saying something like : The link used to make entries in the PayPal system contains an amount of item with an incorrect format. (original text in spanish).

If you have an idea what can cause that, your help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.

I found the problem… i was adding extra variables in the third panel, in the Paypal button editor. As soon as i remove those variables, everything works fine. I was using variables (shipping and shipping2) in order to set 2 shipping rates… now i have to find how to fix that…

I found the problem… i was adding extra variables in the third panel, in the Paypal button editor. As soon as i remove those variables, everything works fine. I was using variables (shipping and shipping2) in order to set 2 shipping rates… now i have to find how to fix that…

Hello.

Great add-in.

Can you add the:
name=”image_url” value=”httpS://secured.com/~f1015/s9412755.png”>

This normally allows the ability to specify an external Logo on the Paypal Cart page from an external link.

Used mostly if the Logo on a hosted SSL site to keep the warning from coming up, etc…

Thx. : )

Hello.

Great add-in.

Can you add the:
name=”image_url” value=”httpS://secured.com/~f1015/s9412755.png”>

This normally allows the ability to specify an external Logo on the Paypal Cart page from an external link.

Used mostly if the Logo on a hosted SSL site to keep the warning from coming up, etc…

Thx. : )

…or, would be cool to be able to specify one of our Custom Payment Page to use as well.

thx again. : )
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…or, would be cool to be able to specify one of our Custom Payment Page to use as well.

thx again. : )
.-= Reuben Lee´s last blog ..Pastor Jenkins is Finishing the Dream =-.

Hi Charly,

A little help please.

As i receive a few comments ,my wish is to monetise the site,is your

site what i am looking for.

kindest regards

jim
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Hi Charly,

A little help please.

As i receive a few comments ,my wish is to monetise the site,is your

site what i am looking for.

kindest regards

jim
.-= jim kelly´s last blog ..The Complete Guide “On How To Build Big Biceps” At Building Up Muscles =-.

This plugin works great. I’ve been using it on WP 2.9.2 and am considering an upgrade to WP 3.0. Has anyone tested it on 3.0 yet?

Thanks,
Roy
.-= Roy Maul´s last blog ..Hello World =-.

This plugin works great. I’ve been using it on WP 2.9.2 and am considering an upgrade to WP 3.0. Has anyone tested it on 3.0 yet?

Thanks,
Roy
.-= Roy Maul´s last blog ..Hello World =-.

Hi Reuben,

you can specify an image using the the imageurl=”http://yourimagerul.com” in the shortcode.

Hi Reuben,

you can specify an image using the the imageurl=”http://yourimagerul.com” in the shortcode.

Hi Roy,
Yes, I’ve tested this week on a WP 3.0 site and there are no problems….

Please let me know if you have any issues.

Charly.

Hi Roy,
Yes, I’ve tested this week on a WP 3.0 site and there are no problems….

Please let me know if you have any issues.

Charly.

Hi Charly,

This works very well. Thanks for great plugin. Is there a way to combine the Pay Now form with donation option?

Some members pay annual membership dues and also add small donation to support our non-profit organization.

Andew

Hi Charly,

This works very well. Thanks for great plugin. Is there a way to combine the Pay Now form with donation option?

Some members pay annual membership dues and also add small donation to support our non-profit organization.

Andew

By the way, it works well with WP 3.0

By the way, it works well with WP 3.0

Hi Charley,

Great plug in. How do I include a shipping charge in the Buy Now button? I see where to prompt for a shipping address but, since we’re selling a physical product, I also need to show an added charge for shipping and handling.

Thank you,
Roy

Hi Charley,

Great plug in. How do I include a shipping charge in the Buy Now button? I see where to prompt for a shipping address but, since we’re selling a physical product, I also need to show an added charge for shipping and handling.

Thank you,
Roy

Hello,
I added no_shipping=”2″, shippi ng=”15.95″ and undefined_quantity=”1″ to no avail. It is asking for the shipping address but the shipping amount and quantity are not showing up.

I’ve pasted the code below:

[paypal type="paynow" amount="97.00" email="xxxxxx@4sharpscissors.com" itemno="4SS-100" name="4SS-100 Scissors Sharpener" no_shipping="2" shipping="15.95" undefined_quantity="1" no-note="0" currency_code="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" returnurl="http://www.4sharpscissors.com" imagewidth="150px" textalign="center"]

Hello,
I added no_shipping=”2″, shippi ng=”15.95″ and undefined_quantity=”1″ to no avail. It is asking for the shipping address but the shipping amount and quantity are not showing up.

I’ve pasted the code below:

[paypal type="paynow" amount="97.00" email="xxxxxx@4sharpscissors.com" itemno="4SS-100" name="4SS-100 Scissors Sharpener" no_shipping="2" shipping="15.95" undefined_quantity="1" no-note="0" currency_code="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" returnurl="http://www.4sharpscissors.com" imagewidth="150px" textalign="center"]

Hi Roy,

no_shipping should be noshipping (remove the underscore character).

Currently the plugin does not support shipping or undefined quantity parameters.

I will be releasing a revision shortly and will add that support to the list.

Charly.

Hi Roy,

no_shipping should be noshipping (remove the underscore character).

Currently the plugin does not support shipping or undefined quantity parameters.

I will be releasing a revision shortly and will add that support to the list.

Charly.

Sooo, what good is it to require a shipping address and have no way to indicate the cost of shipping? When do you think the revision that incorporates the ability to charge a shipping and handling fee — at least a fixed charge?

By the way, page 4 of the PayPal Integration Center – Standard Variable Reference defines the no_shipping variable with the underscore character.

I’ll try it without the underscore but a shipping address without an amount to charge is not of much use. I can live without the undefined quantity parameter, for the time being.

Thanks,
Roy

Sooo, what good is it to require a shipping address and have no way to indicate the cost of shipping? When do you think the revision that incorporates the ability to charge a shipping and handling fee — at least a fixed charge?

By the way, page 4 of the PayPal Integration Center – Standard Variable Reference defines the no_shipping variable with the underscore character.

I’ll try it without the underscore but a shipping address without an amount to charge is not of much use. I can live without the undefined quantity parameter, for the time being.

Thanks,
Roy

Roy,

As this is a shortcode plugin, we don’t use the ‘Paypal’ defined parameters. The input parameters are translated in the code of plugin and the paypal payment button form is created accordingly.

You need to refer to the FAQ page for the usage documentation on the plugin – it gives you all the supported parameters and their usage:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

The shipping uses the shipping settings in Paypal, not a per product shipping cost.

No date for the updated version, I have a number of projects that I’m working on and this is just one of them.

Roy,

As this is a shortcode plugin, we don’t use the ‘Paypal’ defined parameters. The input parameters are translated in the code of plugin and the paypal payment button form is created accordingly.

You need to refer to the FAQ page for the usage documentation on the plugin – it gives you all the supported parameters and their usage:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

The shipping uses the shipping settings in Paypal, not a per product shipping cost.

No date for the updated version, I have a number of projects that I’m working on and this is just one of them.

All right! I’m a happy camper again. Thank you!

I knew about the FAQs and had used them in initially setting up my page. When I started trying to get quantities and shipping charges into the equation, I began checking the PayPal documentation. I guess when you start mixing apples and oranges you get “orples”. And, orples didn’t work.

Actually, I didn’t know about setting up the shipping charges in the PayPal profile. Gosh, 70 years young and still learning. Thank God!

Thank you, Charley,
Roy

I apologize if I came across a little testy, frustration does that to me.

Thanks again,

All right! I’m a happy camper again. Thank you!

I knew about the FAQs and had used them in initially setting up my page. When I started trying to get quantities and shipping charges into the equation, I began checking the PayPal documentation. I guess when you start mixing apples and oranges you get “orples”. And, orples didn’t work.

Actually, I didn’t know about setting up the shipping charges in the PayPal profile. Gosh, 70 years young and still learning. Thank God!

Thank you, Charley,
Roy

I apologize if I came across a little testy, frustration does that to me.

Thanks again,

Hi Ray, no worries I get the frustration bit.

This plugin was initially written to help clients get paypal buttons on their site for digitally deliverable products and it’s just evolved.

Enjoy

Hi Ray, no worries I get the frustration bit.

This plugin was initially written to help clients get paypal buttons on their site for digitally deliverable products and it’s just evolved.

Enjoy

Hi,

Love it! I need some custom features including quantity. I see it’s on your wish list. I’m wondering if I offer to pay you to push it out now if you’d be willing to do that?

If you’re interested in being interested, please contact me at the email address I used for this post.

Thanks,

Len

Hi,

Love it! I need some custom features including quantity. I see it’s on your wish list. I’m wondering if I offer to pay you to push it out now if you’d be willing to do that?

If you’re interested in being interested, please contact me at the email address I used for this post.

Thanks,

Len

Hi

I’m looking for a solution that would allow several people to sell things from the same WP install (so different PP addresses per post), and this plugin looks promising! In the interest of keeping things simple for my users, though, would it be possible to add a template tag that would display the PP button in a hardcoded area of the single.php template, using values of custom fields as the values for the tag (item price, PP address, etc.), so that all my users would need to do would be to create a post and fill in predefined custom fields to add their item to the “shop”?

Hi

I’m looking for a solution that would allow several people to sell things from the same WP install (so different PP addresses per post), and this plugin looks promising! In the interest of keeping things simple for my users, though, would it be possible to add a template tag that would display the PP button in a hardcoded area of the single.php template, using values of custom fields as the values for the tag (item price, PP address, etc.), so that all my users would need to do would be to create a post and fill in predefined custom fields to add their item to the “shop”?

Wow, nevermind, that was a dumb question. I guess I could just use the HTML that you’d normally use for a Paypal button, lol!

Wow, nevermind, that was a dumb question. I guess I could just use the HTML that you’d normally use for a Paypal button, lol!

newbie here….what’s the code to make the paypal button go on the right of a line. Example:

This line is for this much. (PAYPAL button here)

newbie here….what’s the code to make the paypal button go on the right of a line. Example:

This line is for this much. (PAYPAL button here)

Hi Carly,

i am having the same problem as Katie on may 3rd, i entered GBP but still showing in USD. your solution for Katie is not publically available. hope you can help.

cheers

Ray

Hi Carly,

i am having the same problem as Katie on may 3rd, i entered GBP but still showing in USD. your solution for Katie is not publically available. hope you can help.

cheers

Ray

Hi Carly,
just realised the post below resolved the issue.
sorry for wasting your time.

all the best

Ray

Hi Carly,
just realised the post below resolved the issue.
sorry for wasting your time.

all the best

Ray

I think I posted this in the wrong thread intially so here goes again, with many apologies:
I am currently moving a website to WordPress for a ‘client’ and having terrible trouble with some hosted PayPal buttons – whatever I try I get some kind of form field/check box appearing next to the button. It is theme independent so I assume there is something simple I am missing – can anyone please tell me what it is while I still have hair? The table of _PayPal buttons is at the bottom of this impossibly long page here: http://213.229.86.150/~harmonic/?page_id=40
I have used several different plugins (including this one) to embed the code, all to no avail
Many thanks in advance
Barbara

I think I posted this in the wrong thread intially so here goes again, with many apologies:
I am currently moving a website to WordPress for a ‘client’ and having terrible trouble with some hosted PayPal buttons – whatever I try I get some kind of form field/check box appearing next to the button. It is theme independent so I assume there is something simple I am missing – can anyone please tell me what it is while I still have hair? The table of _PayPal buttons is at the bottom of this impossibly long page here: http://213.229.86.150/~harmonic/?page_id=40
I have used several different plugins (including this one) to embed the code, all to no avail
Many thanks in advance
Barbara

Hey Charly,
Maybe this has been discussed above and I missed it. If so, my apologies. But, does this plugin allow you to use the precise code generated by paypal? The one that starts with <form action….? Or is this instead of that? I get the 'too big, pixelated' image when I just use that code alone, and I'm wondering if your plugin will remedy that. And if so, how, precisely, I implement it?

Thanks a million…Jeb

Hey Charly,
Maybe this has been discussed above and I missed it. If so, my apologies. But, does this plugin allow you to use the precise code generated by paypal? The one that starts with <form action….? Or is this instead of that? I get the 'too big, pixelated' image when I just use that code alone, and I'm wondering if your plugin will remedy that. And if so, how, precisely, I implement it?

Thanks a million…Jeb

Hi Jeb,
This code takes the parameters you feed into the shortcode and recreates the paypal form code.

I’m not sure what issue you’re seeing with the image being too big, but with the shortcode, if you use the imagewidth parameter, it will ensure that the image you are using on your page is constrained and shouldn’t pixelate it. All you need to work out is how wide that image should be…

Charly

Hi Jeb,
This code takes the parameters you feed into the shortcode and recreates the paypal form code.

I’m not sure what issue you’re seeing with the image being too big, but with the shortcode, if you use the imagewidth parameter, it will ensure that the image you are using on your page is constrained and shouldn’t pixelate it. All you need to work out is how wide that image should be…

Charly

Hey Barbara,

The issue you are experiencing is not related to any plugins but the theme styling.

From experience, I believe the issue that you are seeing is that the paypal code inserts a hidden image in the code:

The style on your theme will be putting borders around the input fields, which is why you are seeing a little checkbox.

You can remedy this by modifying, or adding the following style to your themes style sheet:

input { border:0; }

However, this will be global and remove the borders from any form on your site.

The other way to do this is, is to put a div around your short code like this:

[ paypal type="hosted" buttonid="1234456" imageurl="http://yourdomainname.com/images/buynow.jpg" imagewidth="200px" divwidth="200px" margintop="20px" marginbottom="10px" ]

Note: the paypal code is a sample only!!!

and add the following to your themes stylesheet:

#paypalbutton input { border:0; }

HTH

Hey Barbara,

The issue you are experiencing is not related to any plugins but the theme styling.

From experience, I believe the issue that you are seeing is that the paypal code inserts a hidden image in the code:
< input width="1" height="1" border="0" type="image" alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" >

The style on your theme will be putting borders around the input fields, which is why you are seeing a little checkbox.

You can remedy this by modifying, or adding the following style to your themes style sheet:

input { border:0; }

However, this will be global and remove the borders from any form on your site.

The other way to do this is, is to put a div around your short code like this:

Note: the paypal code is a sample only!!!

and add the following to your themes stylesheet:

#paypalbutton input { border:0; }

HTH

It would be great to enable subscription quantity

Currency Code in the shortcode is wrong. In the plugin, it wants currencycode, not currency_code a la PayPal.

Cheers!

thank you
best to try this paypal plugin

is there any way to get the “name” value from title?like

[paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="xxx@gmail.com" item_no="123" name="" no_note="0" currency_code="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px"]

I also tried to modify the plugin like this:
$post_title = $_POST['post_title'];

Can you shed some light in this matter?
I am not a php coder btw.

Never Mind. Got it to work.
added

Hi, I’m having a bit of trouble. For currency code I’ve type in the following:

currency_code=”GBP”

however I’m still being charged (as a test) in USD $.

I tried this instead:

currency_code=”Pound Sterling GBP”

the problem still exists.

I am an extreme novice so I apologise if this is stupidly simple but I’d really appreciate some help.

Thank you so much.

Nat

Hi Natti,

The correct way to do this is:
currencycode=”GBP”

The shortcode DOES not reflect the paypal settings – most of the underscores ( _ ) were removed from the parameters to avoid confusion.

The full usage for this plugin can be found the FAQ page:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/faq/

Charly

[...] dashboard.This plugin is free, but as an added bonus, the plugin website is a wealth of information.Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes The original Paypal Shortcodes plugin is great, but a little too basic. This is a really great way [...]

As mentioned by others the above sample code has some bugs. The code sample uses underscores like “currency_code” & “item_no”, but the plugin does not expect the underscores so where they are used the defaults will apply rather than the value that you supply (ie you would always get USD using “currency_code”).

Just remove the underscores from the code when you use it (the correct terms are the ones in “Options & Settings” – these are what the code expects).

Otherwise a great really useful plugin, thanks. Hopefully you can update the sample code at some point to remove the underscores.

I’m looking for a paypal plugin that will allow me to let the user specify the amount they wish to pay for an item. Will this plugin allow me to do that, or do I have to specify the amount in the code?

this is great but changing the currency code from USD to GBP does not work — so the transaction appears as $100 instead of £100 — got a fix?

Hi,

This plugin doesn’t seem to work with WP 3.1. Plugin is installed and activated but it outputs the code of the button in posts not the button. What should I do to get it running?

I did it with some jquery. It’s not so elegant but I was kind of stuck since it clashed with a pp-donate plugin.
ex:
$(‘#input_id’).change(function({
$(‘pp_form_price_element’).val(the_value_of_the_input_id);
});

This plugin always goes to an itilian website escapefromtoday.org in paypal. Can you please answer the question where this email is coming from? I have searched sourcecode and can not find it anywhere.

Hi Dave,

I think the issue is the currency code in your shortcode.
The code should currencycode=GBP not currency_code=GBP — remove the underscore character and it should work

Robbie,

I’m assuming you mean that when a purchaser finishes their payment, they are sent to the site you mention.

If that’s the case, it’s most likely you have the return parameter set in your paypal profile.

You can override the profile setting by using the returnurl parameter in your setting. Here’s a simple example:

[ paypal type="paynow" amount="12.99" email="yourpamentaddress@yourdomain.com" item_no="12345657" name="Description" noshipping="1" nonote="0" currencycode="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" ]

Remove the space after the [ and before the ] when you paste the code and change:
email to your paypal address
returnurl to the page you want to return your purchasers to on successful payment.

Hi Leadfoot,
We’ve tested the extension in 3.1 and it’s working and providing a button.

Check if there is a conflict with other plugins.

Just experienced the same issue.

I disabled a different paypal plugin and then it worked again.

Do you have any different plugins that may not be working correctly with this one?

I’m a new WordPress user. I installed your plugin on my site and copied the simplest Buy Now sample usage you provided here into a widget, changing it to my specifics – email address, Item description, Currency. It works great! Except I’m still getting everything in US dollars instead of Canadian dollars. Have I missed a step somewhere?

sorry Charly – figured it out. Thanks!

[...] Site de l’extension : http://thewordpresswarrior.com/596/enhanced-paypal-shortcodes [...]

Very convenient plugin.  Thank you Charly.Everything is working fine for me except 2 thing.
(1) Language on Paypal entrance page is in french,not English.   (2) I could not get note feature with this with no_note=”0″

I could not figure it out.

My code is as follows;
[paypal type="paynow" amount="19.99" email="fotok@gmail.com" item_no="Design1001" name="Banner-Poster-Designing"
no_shipping="2" no_note="0" currency_code="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif"
notifyurl="http://bannereasy.com" returnurl="http://bannereasy.com/thank-you" scriptcode="/wp-
content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px"  text-align="center" margin-left="10px"]

Thank you.

Jason

Thank you for this very useful plugin. It’s exactly what I needed for my client.

Love this easy plugin.  The no_note doesn’t seem to work for me.  I’ve tried it both ways, no_note=”0″ and with a “1″ and never a note field shows up.  Any ideas???  The rest of the button works as it should.  Thanks!

[paypal type="paynow" amount="200.00"
email="paypal@xyz:disqus .com"  itemno="ART" name="Gemmaline" 
noshipping="0"    no_note="0"    currencycode="USD"  

imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif"
rm="2"  notifyurl="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com" 
returnurl="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/about/thank-you/" 
scriptcode="scriptcode" imagewidth="120px"]

Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes – Language Code Addition?

If you will add a variable for language code ( lc ) then the plugin will be even more useful. I am developing a multilingual WP site using the qtranslate plugin.  There are English / French / and German translation of each page.  I currently use links that jump out of WP to implement Buy Now buttons.  The buttons link to the paypal processor in either Enlgish, French or German by using the language code.  Doing this from within WP using Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes would be a much better approach. I hope this leads to version 0.5 .best wishes,Chris S

Is there a way to make it display an option for quantity? 

I’m needing to have an option to select different quantities for the items.  Is that available – if so how? 

Also is there a way to implement discounts for items?

Thanks ahead of time!!!

Hi love this plugin but have a query.  I changed the currency code to GBP but it defaults to USD in PayPal.  Any suggestions?
Paula

Hi Paula, please make sure that you are using the parameter currencycode=”GBP” in the shortcode…. some of the dated documentation shows the usage is currency_code but that is incorrect.

Hi design126, there is currently no option to be able to select quantities in the shortcode.  I’m looking at the next revision of the plugin and will add that to the wishlist.

Chris!
Thanks,   I’m looking at the next revision of the
plugin and will add that to the wishlist.

Hi Joey, there is currently no option to be able to select
quantities in the shortcode.  I’m looking at the next revision of the
plugin and will add that to the wishlist.

Hi Joanie – please nonote instead of no_note.  Documentation for the earlier version of the plugin had the label wrong.

Hi Fotokard,

The currency parameter is currencycode, not currency_code
The no note parameter is nonote, not no_note

Earlier versions of the documentation was wrong – I’m updating it all now.

Hi, I have added your plugin to my site, and copied your Buy Now example from your site and pasted to my page, it all seems to work, but for some reason I have a little square next to my Buy Now button that is looking at a picture - https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif  though I can’t even see this in the code…any idea on how i can remove this?

thanks 

Karl

Hi Khudgell,

The little square you’re referring too is because of an input field that is 1px wide.  This input field has a tracking image that needs to be there (or at least that’s my understanding ).

The square appears because your theme puts borders around images as default.

I would put the shortcode inside div and create a style to remove the borders from images in that div.

i.e

[ paypal shortcode ]

For the style, I would use the following:
.paypaldiv img { border: 0; }

In my next release, I’ll refine that to remove this issue.

thanks for you response…

i have added to the bottom of my style.css file of the theme i am using -
.paypaldiv img { border: 0; } 

and in my post i have -

[paypal type="paynow" amount="4" email="payments@arvoreentreasures.com" itemno="12345657" name="Description" noshipping="1" nonote="0" currencycode="USD" imageurl="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif" notifyurl="http://notifyurl.com" returnurl="http://returnurl.com" scriptcode="/wp-content/uploads/paypal1.php" width="400px" text-align="center" margin-left="10px"]

but i still get the borders, am i doing somthing wrong? maybe i can turn it off in my theme?….

not to worry, i managed to do it by removing the part for boarders from the actual theme..

Love this easy plugin. I can use HTML code and add this plug to site Thank you verymuch

Hi Khudgell,

I’ve updated the plugin to provide a css class to the two images in the code.  This will make removing those borders a lot easier.  You can find out more about the new release at:
http://thewordpresswarrior.com/wordpress-plugins-by-the-wp-warrior/wordpress-plugin-enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/

Hi Design126,
We released Version 0.5a of Paypal Enhanced Shortcodes today which allows you to specifiy the quantity for items in the shortcode, or allow your purchaser to specify the number they wish to purchase.

Visit: http://thewordpresswarrior.com/wordpress-plugins-by-the-wp-warrior/wordpress-plugin-enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/ for more details.

Hey Chris,

We issued Version 0.5a of the Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes plugin today and added support for language code (lc) along with a heap of other parameters.

You can find out more at: http://thewordpresswarrior.com/wordpress-plugins-by-the-wp-warrior/wordpress-plugin-enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/

We have updated this plugin to Version 0.5a.  More details can be found at:
http://thewordpresswarrior.com/wordpress-plugins-by-the-wp-warrior/wordpress-plugin-enhanced-paypal-shortcodes/

Is there a way to add the options for variations. For example I need the person to select Vegetarian or Regular meals.

Hi Soulsake,

The best way to achieve this is to use the Hosted Buttons option on Paypal, and add the options in that way. You can then use the enhanced paypal shortcode plugin to display your button (you’ll need the hosted button id from within paypal).