Adding a paypal button to my product page just to skip store

[kieran_mullen]

OK I asked this question a long time ago but it never got answered. Well I did not supply all the info.

 

Info: I mainly do not sell small items less than $12. I would like to use a simple paypal button in the description with a fix item and price. I have made the button through paypal but when I click buy now and expecting it to go to paypal, it goes the shopping cart of the store.

[Bob Terveuren]

Hi Kieran - can you show your code?

[burt]

I believe you will need to place the button outside of the <form></form> in your product page.

[MrPhil]

Are you leaving the current cart intact, and letting customers use it to buy multiple items if they want to? Just adding a "Buy it Now" button for single item purchase convenience? If so, I would consider a button to all-in-one add the item to the cart and go directly to the checkout process, rather than going through PayPal purchasing (with its own ideas about shipping and taxes). I don't think there are any add-ons to do this, but I could be wrong. Are you disabling and removing the built-in cart and checkout process, and only using osC as a catalog (with search)? I think there is an add-on to do that ("catalog only"). I would be one very annoyed customer if I wanted to buy several items and found myself forced to go through a complete PayPal checkout and payment cycle for each, but hey, it's your store.

[kieran_mullen]

I am only using it for a $5 item which is going to a micropayments account and shipping is included.

 

This is the page just for testing... (I am adding the paypal code through the item description)

http://www.testingforms.com/store/question-scantron-compatible-forms-pack-free-shipping-p-64.html

 

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"
target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="4FSQ9M9G7A43E">
<table>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Package Size">Package
Size</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">
<option value="25 Pack">25 Pack $5.50 USD</option>
<option value="50 Pack">50 Pack $9.50 USD</option>
<option value="100 Pack">100 Pack $12.50 USD</option>
</select> </td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on1" value="Form Type">Form
Type</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os1">
<option value="881 - 50 Question">881 - 50 Question </option>
<option value="889 - 50 Question">889 - 50 Question </option>
<option value="882 - 100 Question">882 - 100 Question </option>
</select> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="image"
src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif"
border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay
online!">
<img alt="" border="0"
src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1"
height="1">
</form>

[Chris H]

Agree with burt. Looking at the html of your 'page just for testing' there are 3 forms, which is all right. But one form is inside another, which is not all right.

 

The line numbers are

 

113 <form

 

158 <form

 

176 </form

 

239 </form

 

323 <form </form

[Bob Terveuren]

Chris (aka Mr Steed?) is pointing you to the problem - nested forms - someplace in your product_info.php file there's the lines of code that generate

 

<input type="hidden" name="products_id" value="64">

<input type="image" src="includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_in_cart.gif" border="0"

alt="Add to Cart" title=" Add to Cart ">

 

You need a </form> moved to immediately after that from wherever the </form> in line 329 is generated in your product_info.php