Problem: Checkout Not Redirecting to Paypal

Hi everybody, I've been working with Joomla for a long time, but whenever I had an eCommerce project I always used Virtuemart, and this time I wanted to try something different, and I love HikaShop! It seems to be a much more professional feeling solution than Virtuemart.

Anyways, I am running a new installation of Joomla 1.6 at www.StitchPunkDolls.com and need some help with Paypal.

I have enabled the Paypal payment option, and configured it with our paypal address and the "Next" button during checkout does not work. This is the one I'm talking about, lower right corner circled in red:

And one other detail: I don't know if it's related, but I have one shipping method set up and it is free shipping, so that is not even an option during checkout. Also only one payment method: paypal, so that is not an option either.

nicolas wrote:

You set a weight in your product so the shipping is required (you can see the shipping address selection view).
However, you didn't configure your shipping methods and you still have the shipping view in your checkout workflow, so HikaShop is not letting you finish your checkout and is displaying an error message (which is not displayed by your template by your template is missing the jdoc include tag for messages).

If you remove the weight of your product it will work.

Ok, because of your input I went and looked at the shipping. Looks like I created a shipping method, but never actually turned on the manual shipping option! It's enabled and now it works.

Thanks a lot, again!

Hello,

After exhausting the forum, I still can't figure out why I am not being redirected to PayPal in my checkout process.

I have my UPS shipping method set up, PayPal payment plugin set up. They both appear just fine, but every time I choose those options and click "Next," I'm taken right back to the same page.

This also happens if I choose to pay with Credit Card. I'm taken back to the same page.

There are no error messages. Attached is an image of the check out page I'm stuck on.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

I turned on the debug and now when I go to the checkout page, I get this message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in /data/www/celabs/components/com_hikashop/views/product/view.html.php on line 365

Hello,

I have a similar problem with memory and I changed my memory in my ini file but it did not fix the problem. At first I got the fatal error similar to tsmith but now I have this error:
Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in .... components/com_hikashop/views/product/view.html.php on line 1025
This is the case, I have a 3 book combo deal and a five book combo deal. The 3 book combo page works just fine. There are 3 drop downs to select which books you want. When I try to add more than 3 drop down for the 5 book combo, I get the error basically because the page takes too long to load I am guessing. I don't see why 5 drop down menus would be so memory intensive. Her is the sample of the 3 book combo:
theuncommonlife.com/store/books-a-guides...t/15595-3-book-combo (the page loads kind of slow.
and here is the 5 book combo that will not load at all.
theuncommonlife.com/store/books-a-guides...t/15813-5-book-combo

I am hoping you have a suggestion as what to do or why it does this. Your help is much appreciated as always, you are great! I currently have memory_limit set to 128mb according to my joomla 1.7 system information which seems like over kill. Maybe there is a better way to create selections for the product that I do not know about or a way to make the page load faster. Thank you in advance.

Ok, I am still new to hika, first time. Which table do I use to create these custom item fields, product, item? Multiple drop down or what?
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OK and can I give you a scenario? I am trying to wrap my head around this, maybe you could give me a head start....

I have 6 books to choose from and the customer and pick any 5 they want even if they want 3 of the same book and 2 of another book. How would I set this up?

Couple if things.... first, thank you for always responding quickly, I really appreciate it and it makes me glad that I purchased your product knowing you are always willing to help.

second, I implemented the 5 custom fields just fine but now there is another issue. When you click the buy now button, and the popup comes up with the button to continue to cart, it takes you to the cart instead of making you go to the product page to make a selection of the 5 books. How can I change this so that the buy button takes you to the product page? Before when I tried to use variables, it did force the user to the product page to make a selection.

I have tried both of those...in Parameters for products, I ticked no for "Display Add to cart' button" and saved, refreshed, cleared cache, and the buttons still remain. I also selected "Display custom item fields".

1. when I select "Display custom item fields", how can I select which fields I want to display. I know you can select which categories to display a field in but none of that makes since if you have the option to "Display custom item fields" on the product page.
2. I have set all my custom fields to "required", this would I thought would force the page to go to the product page rather than the cart.
3. if I have a single drop down and I make it required, how do I set it to be blank rather than the default value be set to an item. This makes it so that there is already something selected and the if the users forgets to make a selection, then the default selection is what is used.... I must be a dummy about this.
4. I don't really get this... (is this something that will help my situation? "Display limited to: Here, you can select another custom field of the same table and the corresponding values for which you would like the current custom field to be displayed."

so to explain my situation, I have some products that the customer needs to add a code to in a custom text field and some products that the customer has to select which books to buy. So far I have figured out to select a category of products that these fields are to display on but if there is something I am missing, please inform.

many thanks
jessica