Guest Checkout with PayPal Express – Handling Shipping Costs

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I'm not sure whether I've understand PayPal Express completely so far.

When a guest visits a product page and clicks on the PayPal Express button (if activated), how does PayPal know how much shipping cost it has to add to the product price?

Transfers Magento the shipping rate table to PayPal?

Thank you in advance!

Best Answer

When you checkout with PayPal Express after signing into PayPal and selecting your payment method you get redirected back to your store to the Review Order page.

On the Review Order page you have to select the Shipping Method before placing the order. Once you select the shipping method and hit Place Order your PayPal totals get updated with the cost of the selected shipping method. You get charged, and the order is placed.

Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – Place Order Button Disabled with Virtual Products and PayPal Express

The issue is with how

skin/frontend/base/default/js/checkout/review.js

interacts with

design/frontend/base/default/template/paypal/express/review.phtml

review.js has not been updated since 1.7 (or maybe before) review.phtml has been updated with 1.9

When a virtual order happens, there is no shipping section on the review page, and the logic of the "OrderReviewController" tells it to observe all the inputs of the form 'order_review_form', and if they change, to disable the "Place Order" button.

This seems to be a legacy behaviour, because the only remaining input in the 'order_review_form' is the checkbox to agree with Terms and Conditions - and you actually want precisely the opposite behaviour with that checkbox.

The solution: Create a copy of review.js in your theme's "skin" area, eg:

skin/frontend/default/modern/js/checkout/review.js

Edit this review.js, and replace line 358

Event.observe(input, 'change', this._onElementChange.bindAsEventListener(this));

with

        if (typeof input.id !== 'string' || input.id.substr(0,9) !== 'agreement') {
            Event.observe(input, 'change', this._onElementChange.bindAsEventListener(this));    
        }

A proper solution would require review.js being rewritten to be compatible with review.phtml...

Magento-1.9 – Fix PayPal NVP CURL Connection Error #77

Problem solved.

Short version

As suggested by @MagenX, if you have no other bugs like I did, you should get rid of the cURL error #77 with a simple /usr/bin/yum check-update — or yum check-update depending on your configuration.

Detailed version

In my case, I had to solve other issues that were related to the original one, so I will relate the whole process in case someone faces the same situation one day.

When I ran /usr/bin/yum check-update, there was an error:

Error*: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again.

To fix this, I followed this answer and executed /usr/bin/yum --disablerepo=epel -y update ca-certificates. At that point, I faced yet another error message:

error: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Entête V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c105b9de: BAD

Problem opening package ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm

There, I followed the recommandations of this thread and that one. In other words, I executed the following commands:

wget http://vault.centos.org/6.6/updates/x86_64/Packages/nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
cp ./lib64/libfreeblpriv3.* /lib64
/usr/bin/yum check-update

And (for) now Paypal Express Checkout works just fine.