Simple Commerce Module not showing purchases

Are we talking about purchases by registered and logged-in members? Because while others still work fine (ie the sale goes through) they are not registered by the Simple Commerce Module.

Hi there Yes, I’ve been logged in all the time.

M.

Hi Matt,

Not too sure what is going on but just wanted to pop in to let people know what my plugin does so that might help so they know the whole sequence of events as it were.

Basically all my plugin does is handles storing the items that you wish to purchase and creates a shopping cart for that use. This just stops people from having to go back and forth adding items to a pop-up PayPal window every time.

The plugin allows you to spit out the items details such as title, price etc just as you would do normally with the Simple Commerce Module (SCM). In fact it works completely in conjunction with the SCM and weblog tags.

This allows you to create your own form to send off to wherever you like once all the items have been added to the cart.

So basically once a user has added all their items to the cart you can create a form which gets sent off to PayPal and after that it is all down to PayPal and the ping it sends back to the site.

Pretty sure in that respect that it isn’t going to be the plugin as that only handles storing the items up to the point when you create the form. After that it is all down to PayPal.

I personally can’t see anything un-toward in the code above but could be missing something. Matt I will take a look into this more tonight when I get home but hopefully someone will have an idea before then.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi there Yes, I’ve been logged in all the time. M.

And are you definitely logged in on the user side too? Perhaps you are visiting the site without www or for some reason you aren’t being seen as logged-in. Perhaps throw up a quick :

{if logged_in}
You are logged in!
{/if}

on the template with the items on just to check.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark I put that logged_in code in there and it does show me as logged in.

This is very puzzling, although it definitely helps to know that the Commerce Module won’t register purchases unless a user is registered and logged in.

I have a particular need to be able to send notifications to different people depending on which items have been purchased, so I’ll have to look into trying to make that happen with PayPal parameters, rather than the SCM, which is a pain, to be honest. Hopefully I can user a custom field on each item to populate a hidden field on the form submission with a related email address.

edited

Does the SCM purchase list get updated when the IPN comes back? And if so, how does it know that the transaction relates to a registered member?

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Thanks for the input, guys. M.

Hi Matt,

Yes I think you could probably do what you need above with an extension which would activate when PayPal sends back its response to your server.

That’s something for the future though 😉

Would be really nice to find out what is causing your other problem though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Matt, am I understanding you correctly that IPN works fine when you use the native tags and variables of the Simple Commerce module?

Hi Matt, am I understanding you correctly that IPN works fine when you use the native tags and variables of the Simple Commerce module?

Yes, that’s right. The purchases show up in the control panel.

I’ve tried every parameter combination that I think is possible, and it just doesn’t happen when I submit the transaction using the Cart Upload feature on PayPal.

I am fully prepared to admit that I may have missed something though - as I’ve said, I’m not a software engineer and I have been working on this for about 7 hours straight now, and I think anyone can go ‘code-blind’ after that length of time!

Matt

Matt, I am not familiar with the plugin you are using here. If it does work correctly with EE’s native tags, it looks like the issue lies with this plugin, and not the simple commerce module as such. Let me move this thread over to the appropriate “Plugin” forum for you.

Hopefully it isn’t a problem with the plugin as from what I said before all the plugin does is allows you to store the items and then spit out all the information anywhere you need at a later date.

Should it not be possible in that respect to then create a form which uses the cart method to send the items off to PayPal and have PayPal send back all the details correctly?

If you were to hard-code a form and use the cart method would that work as all the plugin does is spits out entry_id’s prices, title etc by using the standard weblog and Simple Commerce Module tags.

Best wishes,

Mark

What confuses me is that all the SCM does - with or without the plugin - is generate HTML code.

When you use buttons in the SCM tags, like {add_to_cart_button}Add to Cart{/add_to_cart_button}, it generates a button with a bunch of hidden tags.

The module with the plugin also generates a button with HTML tags. The hidden fields look no different as far as I can tell - see my post further up the page for the code. The only extra ones I’m using are tags with information about shipping etc.

The only (meaningful) difference as far as I can see is this:

SCM native tag = cart=1;add=1 SCM with plugin = cart=1;upload=1

• Which is why I can’t see how it’s a problem with the plugin. The above would lead me to think it was more likely something in the way the SCM handles the results that come back from Paypal.

But this really isn’t my field, so I can’t be sure…

M.

Where is your ‘item_number’ field?

Within the table listings:

<td class="item"><strong>test item</strong> <span class="cat-no">(t001)</span>
test</td>
                    <td class="price"><strong>1 at £0.01</strong>
<a href="http://communicate.chemica.co.uk/clients/MKM/index.php/tradingpost/remove/304/previous/" title="Remove test item from your cart" class="remove-from-cart">Delete item</a></td>
                    <input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="test item" />
                    <input type="hidden" name="quantity_1" value="1" />
                    <input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="0.01" />
                    <input type="hidden" name="item_number_1" value="32" />

No, that is ‘item_number_1’, not ‘item_number’.