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Cannot override shipping settings

by philjackson Contributor in Selling on your website
‎May-16-2012 12:07 PM
‎May-16-2012 12:07 PM
Hi, I am having major issues trying to get paypal to accept "shipping" and "shipping2" variables in the paypal form. The account that is used is a clients which has been used before on their previous site. I have noticed they had "Postage calculations" set. So I changed them all to "0.00" and ticked the Click here to allow transaction-based postage values to override the profile postage settings listed above (if profile settings are enabled). This still has no affect. The submission form is as follows:   <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="emailaddresshere"> <input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="custom" value="9c628d3ad8b44ec1c8c60a8c7a65fad2"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="0.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping2" value="0.00"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="camp booking - SHREWSBURY - Prestfelde Prep School"> <input type="hidden" name="quantity_1" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="tax_1" value="0.00"> <input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="1.00"> <input type="submit" value="PayPal" name="sbbutton"> </form>   Can someone please help with this as it is driving me nuts for something that should be so simple.   regards ... View more

Client Cannot Ship To Certain Countries

by philjackson Contributor in Shipping (Archive)
‎Oct-31-2011 01:38 PM
‎Oct-31-2011 01:38 PM
Hi, I have a client who is not able to send to the US or Greece (don't know why) so they want to know if they is an option  or method which can do this?   Does anyone know?   Regards   Phil ... View more
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