I'll start by admitting I'm no coding wizard at this stuff, but I'm using the Javascript SDK with Smart Buttons. In theory should be easy. After weeks of messing with values I eventually got everything to work exactly as I wanted and have had multiple successful sales go through my Paypal setup.
But NOW I find out that I was calculating the Paypal fees on my side because I read somewhere that said that Paypal fees are an easy calculation and don't change. This understanding was false, particularly for International sales. So I think "Ok, I'll just have Paypal return the actual Paypal fee value to me" so I can record it and use it in our calculations for payouts rather than manually calculating them. Ok, in the documentation I see an object called "seller_receivable_breakdown" that within it has a "paypal_fee" object. I run through a sale on my site and look at the objects, "payments" great! "captures" great! Array 0 entry great! Where's "seller_receivable_breakdown"? Nowhere to be found...brilliant!
Digging a little deeper I see a thing that says some data won't show unless you change the header "Prefer" from the default of "return=minimal" to "return=representation". Not even sure if this will actually help, but I haven't the first clue where this thing goes. I've googled for hours and can't find anything remotely close to using this variable with the Javascript Smart Button setup.
There's a reference near the top of my code where I src the javascript code like "https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js". Is that where I do this?
Later, I'm using
paypal.Buttons({
style: {
Does it go somewhere around here?
Does it go near the onClick: function(data, actions) {
Near the createOrder area?
createOrder: function(data, actions) {
console.log( "create order" );
return actions.order.create({
Near the order.capture?
onApprove: function(data, actions) {
// Capture the funds from the transaction
return actions.order.capture().then(function(details) {
Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
