My PayPal express shortcut button is showing on my simple products but for some reason will not show (on the product view page) for my configurable product.
Within the file /app/design/frontend/default/MY-TEMPLATE/template/catalog/product/view/addtocart.phtml the following line is not being pulled in.
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('', true, true) ?>
I'm not entirely sure which file this calls directly but it does enable /app/design/frontend/default/asd/template/paypal/express/shortcut.phtml which is the one I want.
Perhaps PayPal express is not set-up to facilitate product variations that can be changed on screen but that doesn't make a huge amount of sense. If someone can please help or comment that would appreciated.
Best Answer
I don't think that the paypal express checkout will work on configurable products directly.
When clicking on the express checkout link, you have to sent a product id as a parameter, and the configurable product id does not have meaning on its own. It needs the configurable attributes selected, and only after that the configurable product is "translated" to a simple product that can be ordered.