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CartThrob Forums | Paypal Express Integration Instructions

Real novice questions here:

I’m using PP Pro and want to add the PP Express Gateway as well.  When I look at the list of gateways, I see “UNTESTED paypal_express_title.”  Is this the proper one?

Also, if one specifies a primary payment gateway, how does one specify a secondary gateway?

I’m sure these are easy but I’m scratching my head a bit…  I’ve gone through the docs and have been unsuccessful at finding these answers. 

Any help or guidance is appreciated.

You can set up the settings to any gateway in the backend. Whichever is selected is the default gateway, but the others can still be used.

http://cartthrob.com/docs/tags_detail/checkout_form/#par_gateway

You can have as many different checkout forms as you want, each with a different gateway specified. If you want to get really fancy, you can use jQuery to dynamically switch gateways in your template. That’s what we do on CartThrob.com/cart/checkout

Thanks, that solved the php errors. The orders are processing fine. The only issue I have now, is that the return page isn’t working.

I have changed the index.php file to world and have .htaccess working - I haven’t removed index.php, - just renamed it, as shown in the EE docs.

In the checkout page I have: return=“shopping_cart/order_complete/{segment_2}”

Does this over-ride anything that’s in the Paypal Return URL settings?

Thanks again for the outstanding support!

This: ?ACT=32&G=kWm%2 is correct. From there it *should* redirect you to your final destination. If it’s not, then there’s probably a PHP error.

At this point, I need to go test this. I’m sure as soon as I test it again, I’ll be able to fix the problem. Unfortunately though, for the rest of the day I won’t be able to do it, because I already have a backlog of support issues. Bump this thread tomorrow if you haven’t heard more from me by then.

Thanks for giving it your attention Chris - it’s got a little closer, it tries to redirect to the correct order_complete page, but it strips out the index.php - so instead of going to domain.com/index.php/shopping_cart/order_complete it’s going to domain.com/shopping_cart/order_complete

It’s also stopped generating the purchased_items now. It generates orders though.

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