Buttons.

abdiscovery
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I have over 500 buttons on my website so editing them was always a challenge in the old system but at least the ones i edited regularly (changes in price) were at the beginning of the list. Imagine my horror (and then disgust) to discover a new webpage that makes the old terrible one look marvellous.

1) the order of buttons has changed into something random. There are far fewer buttons on each page making it harder to find what you are after.

2) there is now first or last buttons

3) when you finally find a button and try to edit it, it fails. And of course, there is no cancel button on your edit anyhow so if you go to edit... you are committed

4) the code section used to have an email link which is what you need in a WordPress webpage like mine. Naturally, that is gone because... who knows.

 

I need to edit buttons and I need to add new ones for new products and this is virtually useless.

 

What kind of webpage designer makes these elementary mistakes? no cancel button? no first or last navigation button?

 

I had hoped that a redesign of this page might include basic standard features like a search button, user-choosable number of lines per page and other things.

This is amateur-hour nonsense and has rendered Paypal next to useless to me.

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agwcolor
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The link to the legacy button page no longer works. I want to provide a way for people to pay on a sliding scale. It was easy before but now I have to create a donate button with a clunky interface and it is wasting a ton of my time.

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dugfreez
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Yes...the classic button UI that PayPal support was pointing us to has now stopped working (and is redirecting to the new button UI). The issue is...the new UI is not finished. They have a WEIGHT variable listed so a person can assign a weight to an item.....but it doesn't work and gives an error that WEIGHT is an unsupported variable.

I wish I could have one more visit to the classic UI to mark all of my buttons to allow purchases even when an items inventory was at 0 and set them all at 0. I would then just manage my inventory manually (outside of PayPal). As it is now., whenever I do have to go in and edit a button.....it means FREE SHIPPING for that item. 

Why would they pull the plug on the classic UI before they have all of the needed features implemented on the new UI? I wish I knew how to leave PayPal, but I simply do not have the web developing know how to do that. 

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Temp20231029A
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Same here, orders were coming in with free shipping again. I was about to throw in the towel and move to Shopify or something, BUT I've noticed advanced variables do seem to work now (whereas they would throw some useless error before). So in Optional Settings > Advanced variables, put (for example):

 

weight=1.00
weight_unit=lbs

 

and shipping calculations will work as before.

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dugfreez
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   That is great news to hear they have the weight variable implemented. I still find it pretty unforgivable that they pulled the plug on the classic (and still better) interface before they even had the new one working properly. 

  Hopefully they are done messing with stuff. 

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jetdogy
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I have a suggestions about another issue where it would help out those who have 100+ items that have sequential names

How come paypal doesn't have paypal button options where you can make all your buttons in sequential order in the link

EXAMPLE
I have about 100 magnets that are named BobDylan01
This is one of my paypal button address:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G6WZ6EJLG5TTL

It would make more sense  if the paypal button url address read something like this:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan01

So my suggestion to Paypal is to make it where we enter our item names and then the button automatically gives us sequential paypal button address, something like this. 

BobDylan01
BobDylan02
BobDylan03
BobDylan04
BobDylan05
BobDylan06
BobDylan07
BobDylan08
BobDylan09     ETC ETC ETC
Then I click submit and paypal creates my magnet URLS
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan01

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan02

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan03

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan04

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan05

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan06

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BobDylan07   ETC ETC ETC

Who agrees with me that this would be a lot less of a headache for those who have over 20 

items with sequential names.

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