After successful payment return url is not 'picked up'

#1

I have a free registration but we sell ‘capabilities’. The code below is what I use in a foreach to loop through the available packages we have.

echo do_shortcode( '[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="*" ccaps="country_' . $package[ 'country_code' ] . '" desc="' . $package[ 'country_name' ] . ' package" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="EUR" dg="0" ns="1" custom="' . $domain . '" ra="' . $package[ 'price' ] . '.00" rp="1" rt="L" rr="BN" image="default" output="button" success="' . home_url() . '/thank-you/" /]' );

Even though success="" is defined, it does not get picked-up after a successful payment.

After every successful payment the return url = http://www.domain.com/?s2member_paypal_return=1&s2member_paypal_return_success=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fthank-you%2F.

That leads to this default grey page informing the user he now has capability X and he needs to login again. I can’t seem to get around this page.

#2

I don’t understand. You have specified success to be your thank you page at the end of your shortcode. So it is doing exactly what you are asking it to do.

#3

No it is not :slight_smile:

I am not getting forward to the thank you page, but to the URL listed above, which maybe should forward me to the thank you page, but it does not. Instead I see this.

#4

OK, so silly question: do that page and URL exist? I am guessing they do, but that’s obviously the first thing to check.

#5

Yes it does exist. It’s a default page, without the use of a page template.

#6

OK, well, two things come to mind:

  1. Have you tried using the actual URL rather than building it from home_url()? I don’t see why it would make a difference, but I’d try it anyway.

  2. Are you using this to do billing modifications? If so, it won’t work. The instructions say of the success attribute:

Note, s2Member will NOT use this value if an existing account holder is being modified. s2Member handles account updates (i.e., billing modification) in a more dynamic way. Your Success Return URL is only applied to (new) Customers.

#7
  1. Because this was done with various environments in mind.
  2. That might be the cause then. The payment is made to add a user capability.

Am I correct to assume I should use the Auto-Return Page template, listed under Paypal options > PDT/Auto return integration ? Because the preview link there does indeed show what I am seeing (albeit with some other values).

#8

Although I did expect to be able to bypass it, as is explained in the PDT info.

It is also possible to bypass s2Member’s Auto-Return system altogether, if you prefer. For further details, please read more about the success="" Shortcode Attribute for PayPal Buttons generated by s2Member. You will find details on this inside your Dashboard, under: s2Member → PayPal Buttons → Shortcode Attributes (Explained). Please note: you will still need to configure your PayPal account for Auto-Return/PDT (as instructed above). Then, you may use the success="" Attribute in your Shortcode, when/if you need it. In other words, if you use the success="" Attribute in your Shortcode, the initial redirection back to s2Member’s default Auto-Return/PDT handler must still occur. However, instead of s2Member displaying an Auto-Return Template to the Customer, s2Member will silently redirect the Customer to the URL that you specified in the success=“http://…” Attribute of your Shortcode, allowing you to take complete control over what happens next.

#9

I have achieved what I wanted, albeit a bit different. I made use of the paypal-return.php template. I copied that to my theme and edited so it looks like the rest of the theme. Now all I need to do is maybe tweak it a bit but now it does what I want it to do.