[thelist] mobile paypal buttons (Bob Meetin)

Greg Holmes greg.holmes at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 13:57:10 CDT 2012


Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
> I suppose I should be enthusiastic that paypal does respond to problem reports.
>
> /"The problem here is that you have setup a tax profile in your account. Unfortunately, the profile based tax
>calculations are currently not supported by paypal mobile interface. So you will need to add the tax directly in
>the button code."/
>
> So after spending a major amount of time setting up a test site and gathering feedback for my response I learn
>that one of the functions I selected in the button create tool causes the failure. The tech sent me an image for
>reference, see at: www.dottedi.info/images/paypal-mobile-friendly-checkout.png
>
> It kind of makes me wonder what else that you might innocently try to set up using their button creation
>interface doesn't work for mobile - and is undocumented. Gee - I wonder how much time it would take PP to
>add a little documentation (oh by the way) to the interface to save their customers a couple days' time........

So, it works for you now?

If they are saying that there *is* some kind of button code (for Buy
Now / Cart Upload) that *would* take the customer to a mobile-friendly
cart, I'd like very much to see it :)


Greg Holmes


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