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Our developers are currently investigating this issue with donation buttons dropping some of the parameters intermittently on the POST back.   I don't have an exact ETA, but we'll update you once the fix is Live. ... View more

We currently do not have ETA for upscaling the Subscription buttons interface to the newer one.   The only workaround at this moment is using Express Checkout Recurring Payments:   https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECRecurringPayments/   which will be rendered in the new payment page style. ... View more

@RezB Did you disable the PayPal option in your website because of this issue? It seems you are offering only direct card payments.   Please let me know if you enable it again, and I can check it from here.   Thanks. ... View more

@BarryDiston The issue occurs because of an invalid value in the “business” variable (the one that tells PayPal the receiver of the payment).   It seems you are trying to use your merchant ID, but with the characters in lower case, whereas all of our merchant IDs contain characters in upper case.   Can you modify such value so that it matches exactly the merchant ID displayed in your PayPal account?   Thanks. ... View more

@EscapeSF There is a space at the beginning of the value of the "business" variable:   business= REDACTED@gmail.com   Note the space after "="   It seems sometimes we are handling this correctly whereas in other instances we are displaying the error.   Nonetheless, the business value (which identifies the PayPal account receiver) shouldn't have any leading or trailing spaces.   Removing this should make the redirection work fine in all cases.     ... View more

@nicowisamu This issue occurs upon the combination of two circumstances:   - When the variable "address_override=1" it's being passed to PayPal.   This parameter basically tells PayPal that the shipping address being sent over to us must not be changed in the payment pages, so we won't allow buyers to change it once they land on PayPal. AND    - Passing incorrect/inconsistent shipping address parameters.   The following will need to be sent to PayPal, from a shipping address point of view:   first_name last_name address1 zip city state (optional for some countries) country (will require the ISO code of the country) So if your integration it's not passing any of the above or if it contains an inconsistent value (we will do validation in some countries, for example we will verify that US zip codes match city/state) we will display the error. Note that without "address_override=1" we won't display any errors and we will simply use the buyer's default shipping address instead of the incorrect one being passed to us.   Can you check all the shipping variables are being passed and there is a correct value?   Pay special attention to the value of "country" where you need to pass something like "US", "FR", "GB", etc. rather than "United States", "France", "United Kingdom", etc.   Thanks. ... View more

@EscapeSF I haven't been able to reproduce any issues with that particular button code.   The redirection to the payment page seems to work fine all of the times I try it.   Can you let us know the exact error displayed and if the only steps you are taking to reproduce the issue it's just clicking on the button?   Thanks. ... View more

@jjosserand If you are logging to this forum with the same PayPal account you are using to take payments, I can't find any instances of incorrect parameters being passed to PayPal, so technically you don't need to update any buttons.   The upgrade was completed last week, so if any of your buttons is displaying an error during the redirection to the payment pages, please give us more details.  ... View more

We usually do validation for US addresses, similar to USPS:   https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=2&refresh=true   The zip code introduced will have to match exactly the City name and State code, as per the above. ... View more

Apologies for the delay. Are you trying to integrate the PayPal Pro Hosted Solution, as per the following guide?   https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_GB/developer/docs/pdf/hostedsolution_uk.pdf   If that's the case, any random or fake card number will work in Sandbox as long as:   - It's not a commonly used number like 4111 .... 1111 as they have been used so many times in the past that they will time out in our Sandbox.   - The card number follows the Luhn algoritmh for credit card generation/validation.     ... View more