Did you the following error message at the PayPal payment page:
The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again.
So what does this error message say or what does it even show up and how to get away from this error message?
Its pretty simple, let me explain.
The first thing I want to mention is that this error message in no way reflects that there is any problem with the membership script.
Why does this error message appear?
This error message is shown at the PayPal’s payment page and PayPal shows up this error message if the information passed to its system is incorrect, incomple or in a wrong format.
Once a member fills up the registration form, the script passes some information to PayPal’s payment gateway and redirects the visitor to the PayPal’s secure payment page.
There may be some information passed to the payment gateway which is not in sync with its defined parameters. In such cases, PayPal shows this error message at the payment page.
How to fix this problem?
In order to fix this problem, please review the details entered in “data.php” file. You can open it in Notepad or in any HTML editing tool.
In “data.php” file, please check the following:
- value of the variable – $m_seller_email. Does the email address corresponds to a PayPal’s “Personal”, “Premier” or “Business” account? It needs to be either a “Premier” or “Business” account. You can check the account type by logging into your PayPal account.
- check values for variables related to trial periods. There are three variables corresponding to each trial period. 2nd trial period can be set only if 1st trial period has already been set. Also, if you do not use any trial period then blank out all the three variables corresponding to this trial period.
- Value for “$m_no_of_payments” can be set only if value for “$m_recurring_fee” is set to ‘1′. In other words, you cannot set number of recurring payments if you have not asked PayPal to charge members on a recurring basis.
- Also, if value for “$m_recurring_fee” is set to ‘1′, then value for “$m_no_of_payments” should be set as 2 or more (for a fixed number of payments) or it should be left blank (if you want to keep charging your members till they do not cancel the subscription at their end). But if “$m_recurring_fee” is set to ‘0′, then value for “$m_no_of_payments” should be left blank.
$m_trail1_fee = ”;
$m_trial1_period_length = ”;
$m_trial1_period_unit = ”;
$m_trial1_period_length = ”;
$m_trial1_period_unit = ”;
$m_trail2_fee = ”;
$m_trial2_period_length = ”;
$m_trial2_period_unit = ”;
$m_trial2_period_length = ”;
$m_trial2_period_unit = ”;
$m_regular_fee = ”;
$m_regular_period_length = ”;
$m_regular_period_unit = ”;
$m_regular_period_length = ”;
$m_regular_period_unit = ”;
$m_recurring_fee = ”;
$m_reattempt_on_failure = ”;
$m_no_of_payments = ”;
$m_reattempt_on_failure = ”;
$m_no_of_payments = ”;
$m_seller_email = ”;
Still the problem persists?
Please email us details of your “data.php” file. Before sending the details, please blank out the confidential details like database connection details (variables – $m_host, $m_database, $m_db_username and $m_db_password).
You can email technical support team directly at [email protected] or fill up the technical support form here and they will get back to you as soon as possible.
