Paypal asking buyer to join or login?

at https://www.aboutwritingsquared.com/membership%20options.html, the paypal buttons take me to a paypal page that asks me to log in our join… I assume I’ve screwed up a setting, but I don’t know which one it is… I want people who don’t want to join paypal to be able to join my forum

\Or will those not belonging to paypal see a different page?

What have I done wrong? Thanks

Hi,
It’s difficult to answer you without yours PayPal’s shortcodes that you’re using.
It’s right that yours buttons don’t work like it should work.
Thanks.

Sadly that’s very normal nowadays for Paypal standard. They used to allow people to pay without registering - but not that’s pretty much reserved for Paypal Payments Pro or other paid options.

It does not depend on you - but actually on the user. Paypal allows certain users from certain countries to check out 1-2 a year without registering for Paypal Payments Standard.
So you need to offer Stripe or similar too - but best do not use s2member pro-forms as they are really confusing and bad. Easiest is probably to use Gravity Forms instead.
(best alternative is probably to use Optimizepress with ThriveCart instead. As written Thrivecart integration for OPM looks like 95% finished,so it’s not fully working yet)

Well, I got it to work sort of… I’m not able to get the short code to display the buttons… so I’m using the longer version. This time it doesn’t require the user to log in but it does display extra code.

I’m using the SeaMonkey editor… do I have to apply the short code in the actual html page? SeaMonkey has an insert html function but apparently it doesn’t honor shortcodes… suggestions welcome.

the url for the page with the paypal buttons is https://www.aboutwritingsquared.com/membershipoptions.html

and this is the code: