Shopping Cart Pull Down List

[JohnGeffel]

I've added shopping cart buttons (dropdown list) to the items I'm selling on my website.  I've also added a View Shopping Cart button as well.  All of this is working fine.

What doesn't seem to work is the Shopping Cart Pull Down List that is at the top of the website page.  I assume it should be adding items as they are selected, but it always shows empty.  It seems to appear when you start selecting items, but as i mentioned, never seems to have any items added to it.  I don't really need it since I have use the View Shopping Cart button, but I don't know how to either make it work correctly or prevent it from appearing.  It's just confusing for the shoppers to always appear empty.

Any suggestions?

[snowshoe]

Help us out a bit more, we really need to see what is going on in order to help. If you can provide a link to the page that has the code, that would be great!

[JohnGeffel]

Here you go:

www.elegantwhimsy.com

Thanks!

[snowshoe · Accepted solution]

Thanks, everything makes more sense now.

First, your is issue is not a PayPal related problem.

It's more to do with the design and function of your web site pages.  The Cart button in question is for the Google Shopping Cart.  There's a line of code which is calling the cart.js file.  Are you using a web site template as a base and you're just adding the PayPal Item Button Code?

<script  id='googlecart-script' type='text/javascript' src='https://checkout.google.com/seller/gsc/v2_2/cart.js?mid=609066365136241' integration='jscart-wizard' post-cart-to-sandbox='false' currency='USD' productWeightUnits='LB'></script></body>

You would have to do some tinkering with the code, not sure if just removing the line above would fix the problem.  It's also possible one of the style sheets or .css files is controlling the location and appearance of this feature.

[JohnGeffel]

I'm using a template (Weebly) for my website and pasting the button code into an html container .  I can get into the style sheet code, but I'm not sure what "tinkering" I would need to do there.  I know on another website using Google Cart I had to add a line of code to the page footer I believe.  Perhaps there is a similar mechanism here?  

Funny that Paypal doesn't provide any info on this in the button setup...

Thanks again for your help!

[snowshoe]

No worries.  PayPal would not provide any info on someone else's code or web site design.  They only support their own item button code which is basically simple HTML Forms.  You generate the code, copy and paste it into your web page.  If the page has other featues as yours does, it's up to you or other support to deal with. 

You may want to try removing the line of code previously mentioned.  It may or may not make any difference but, would be a place to start.  (Not sure if you can do that anyway using the web browser editor.)

Weebly does offer both Google Checkout and PayPal Checkout featues, you may want to speak with their support for assistance. 

[JohnGeffel · Accepted solution]

Thanks will do - I wish I knew what I needed to do to make the pull down work, but I'll try what you suggest.  I did check with Weebly and they do have their own PayPal integration, but it doesn't support the drop down list buttons so I need to use these custom buttons, which other than the problem with the cart pull down, work great! 

Thanks for all your help.

[JohnGeffel]

I just wanted to get back to you - I didn't ready your reply here carefully enough - you're right this IS Google code which I put into the footer of several pages when I had a Google cart for this site - forgot it was for this one! 

So, I found the code, pulled it out and it's working like a champ...  Thanks again, for the great help, I just need to read it more carefully!

[snowshoe]