IntegraMOD

I've read through several posts in the forums on payment group/subscription/donation problems and applied all of the fixes/advice, but I'm still having no luck setting up payment groups.

My Paypal configuration settings seem to be OK, because when a user clicks on the donate button they can actually donate to the site. It shows up fine in my Paypal account. When the user clicks on the "Return to Merchant" button, they are directed back to the lwdonateresult.php page.

The problem is that no record of the donation is credited to the user's account, nor does their donation show in the "donors" link or in the ACP - User Admin - Subscription page. Somehow the fact that they have donated never makes it back to the portal.

Secondly, I have set up usergroup as a payment group, and designated a minimum payment of $1.00. When a user clicks on Usergroups, they see the usergroup in the drop-down list, but when they click on the View Information button, they simply get a listing of the group members, with no button or method of joining that group.

Might anybody have come across these problems and perhaps be able to point me in the right direction?

Hi

I have similar problem with this in the past and set up paypal with my IPN etc etc....

When I had another site using subscriptions I thought how am I going to do this....

So Firstly you do not need to set up IPN in paypal with a return address as it is all set up in the code.....

The main factors you need to make sure are correct is the email address has to be the main one you use on paypal...if this is not so or you are uisng a sub email address nothing will work as it should .....

If yours is set up correctly then we can look at alternative approaches....though there is a great many question answered at the authors site found here....--->http://www.loewen.com.sg/bbs/index.php

Thanks found it!!

I went over the various posts on the http://www.loewen.com site. This one in particular stood out: http://loewen.com.sg/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=1976#1976

Basically what was happening was that the Security Mod was banning Paypal's IP address as it came back with the confirmation informaiton. I unbanned that IP address via teh ACP, then went in to includes/phbb_security.php and made the modification he provided in the link above. After that everything seems to work OK.

Something I would like to note (at least as I understand it) for those who are setting this up for the first time (like I was) that can hopefully save you some time and trouble:

1. "Donation" and "Subscription" are not the same thing. When you get this set up some one can donate to your site using the donate button, but that has nothing to do with getting them into a payment group. The wording in the ACP - General Admin - Configuration led me to believe they were somehow connected (having to put the Group number down in the Donation Settings block: Enter the first group id to which the donor will join:). Simply setting up the payment group, putting the group id in that block and then having a user click the donate link will not automatically get them in to the payment group.

2. To get them in to the payment group, I had to direct the browser to the lwtopup.php file located in the root of the portal. When you go to that URL, you get a screen asking the user which payment group they want to join. Once they complete those instructions they are placed in the payment group.

It looks, then, like I am going to have to create a link (or link button) to the lwtopup.php file, because I can't see where it exists now on the portal. I would have thought that when a user clicked on the usergroup link at the top of the page, they would have a link button shown that would ask if they wanted to join this payment group and if they clicked that button they would go to the lwtopup.php file. I don't see anything like that. Am I missing something??????

Thanks again found it! <img> I'll edit the subject of thsi as [solved]

Nice one....glad to help