PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

[lancermedia]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

What do you mean? We don't do this by default, but we don't mind if you do it. Is that the question?

Rick,

We've had a ticket opened with Miva and mainly I was just asking.....IF we were to do this, what is the best method to accomplish this that Miva recommends?

For example, I could wrap the whole dropdown in a div and hide it with CSS. I could just place a hidden form field on the page, is that a better method.

I guess I'm just trying to get some expert option from Miva on the best way to remove that dropdown since the client only uses PayPal Advanced.

-Kevin

[Rick Wilson]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

Kevin,

Our support team wouldn't really be able to field that, it's outside their purview. However I've asked Brennan to chime in, he can give you some pointers on how we'd do it.

[lancermedia]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

Kevin,

Our support team wouldn't really be able to field that, it's outside their purview. However I've asked Brennan to chime in, he can give you some pointers on how we'd do it.

Rick,

Thanks. I'll await for Brennan if he has a chance.

I'm just trying to be safe and make sure whatever I do doesn't break Miva.

-Kevin

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

Per Sabine's response, we have commented out the standard payment dropdown and replaced with a hidden input field passing a valid payment method. This gets you around the error of no payment method found, allowing the shopper to proceed to the PayPal Advanced iframe screen with no further confusion.

[Brennan]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

Kevin -

I agree with Dan/Sabine. That is the best way to handle it. Simply replace the payment drop down with a hidden input hard coded to any one of the valid payment methods.

[lancermedia]

Re: PayPal option not showing in Pay With: dropdown

Thanks Dan/Sabine/Miva folks......

Since this customer is using PayPal advanced as the only checkout method (other than Amazon but that's on the BASK page), we decided to remove the Pay With dropdown and replace it with a hidden form field passing the value of one of the PayPal Advanced payment methods.

We removed the dropdown code and in the form placed the following hidden field:

<input type="hidden" name="PaymentMethod" value="paypaladv:VISA" />

If in the future the client needs to use another checkout payment method, we'll probably re-activate the dropdown and hard code in a dummy PayPal option that uses the same paypaladv:VISA value.

-Kevin