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I think it’s a business account – I can use it to generate invoices.

I didn’t mention before but I had changed the purchase price of the actual item to 0.01 before the test, so it wouldn’t charge my credit card the full amount. According to Paypal, I definitely only paid 0.01, not the $18.01 that I should have been charged if the shipping went through.

I am using my regular Paypal account for testing, it’s not a sandbox – is that what you wanted to know?

I have the log – I feel a little nervous posting it here, it seems to have a lot of personal info in it. Can I email it to you somewhere?

Here’s the shortcode:
[wp_cart_button name="Bedtime Cards" price="24.99" shipping="0.001"]

Current settings (I’ve included what I think is pertinent – let me know if you need to know more!):

Currency: CAD
Currency Symbol: $
Base Shipping cost: 18.00
Free shipping for orders over: blank
Must collect shipping address: checked
Use paypal profile based shipping: unchecked

Automatic redirection to checkout page: checked, cart page URL provided
Reset cart after redirection to return page: checked
Hide shopping cart image: checked

Just thought of something else – the actual charge for the actual item was also in CAD and going through fine. So clearly my Paypal account supports CAD. I think there is a bug where the shipping charge is not passing the correct currency code to Paypal, and the mismatch is causing the shipping to be dropped.

So you’re saying that any shopper, at any time, might have the shipping dropped off due to Paypal configurations that are outside our control? I’m in Canada, and I have a Canadian Paypal account, and it’s still dropping shipping when in Canadian dollars. I checked inside my Paypal account and CAD is an officially supported currency, and there doesn’t seem to be any flag that would be required to “turn on” CAD support on the Paypal side.

We can’t put the shop up on the site if half the people using it will magically get free shipping. I cannot believe that other sites that use Paypal for checkout just accept that some of their clients will get free shipping because of a Paypal setting.

I’ve found the problem, I think – it’s that I have changed the currency in the main settings page from USD to CAD. We would like to charge the amount and the shipping in Canadian Dollars.

If I change the currency on the main settings page to “USD”, everything works as expected, with shipping carrying over to Paypal. Setting it to “CAD” means the shipping is dropped.

Does this mean Canadian Dollars aren’t supported? I thought I had read in the tips that CAD was a valid currency for this plugin.

Hm, thanks for the suggestion but changing the shipping on the item to “0.001” still didn’t work – shipping charge still being dropped when you move to the Paypal screen. Any other ideas?

Sorry, forgot to include the URL for testing:

https://www.ottawacorporateyoga.com/bedtime-yoga/bedtime-yoga-cards/bedtime-cards-purchase/

Here’s the site I am working on:

https://tudorrobins.ca

Right now, under Totally Booked –> Update Settings –> Advanced Options –> Books Archive Slug, I have entered “bookshop” for the new slug.

Now, if you go to:
https://tudorrobins.ca/bookshop
You get a 404 error.

If you go to:
https://tudorrobins.ca/books
You’ll see the regular archive.

But, if you click on a book title, it will try to point to “bookshop”, like this:
https://tudorrobins.ca/bookshop/objects-in-mirror
And will give a 404 error.

Hm, didn’t see that in the documentation – did I miss it somewhere?

In any case, I would like my shortcode to be “bookshop” instead, but when I set this up in the settings as the book shortcode, the url/bookshop shows as a 404 error, and /url/bookshop/specificbook also shows as a 404 now. Possible bug?

Are you sure you are running 3.7.1? If not, best to upgrade first.

Thanks WPyogi – worked like a charm. I upgraded two major releases at a time (to 2.7, then 2.9, then 3.1, then 3.3, 3.5, finally 3.7) and everything went smoothly.

@sethshimkonis – I know you are supposed to open a new topic but just wanted to comment and say yes, there are people you can hire to do this for you. I was undertaking this project on a paid basis (but unfortunately am totally swamped right now). If you just look around for a WordPress designer, they can probably help you out.

Found it!

The problem was my settings – under Settings –> Media, there’s a path for saving images. It should be set by default to wp-content/uploads, but for some reason it had been corrupted.

Fixed!

Having this exact same issue – and I don’t have a twitter feed plug in running. Anyone have any other fixes?