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To use it in "test mode" Checkout the latest and greatest, code, create a sandbox merchant account, put it in your substruct admin prefs (make sure your store is in test mode), add the right url to paypal's IPN setup (a paypal setup on their site for the merchant, within sandbox) (url must be public), then checkout using another 'normal' sandbox account. Should work--if the paypal code is working. Good luck!

@rogerpack2005 Thank you for that. It helped me!

I've gotten paypal integration setup, but the email functionality is not quite working. Can anyone give me a quick overview of how they got their SMTP stuff all set up and configured? I tried using my gmail account and accessing gmail's free SMTP server without any luck :(

Extra Info: I'm not running an SMTP server on my dev machine nor any other machine, but I am running Substruct, MySQL, Apache, and Mongrel on my dev box.

So I'm assuming I need to use a 3rd party, any tips on good, free ones I can use just for development? I can switch to a full-on SMTP server when I move everything to production.

FYI, when I tried using gmails I set "SMTP Authentication Type" to 'login', "SMTP Username" to my gmail address, "SMTP Mail Host" to 'smtp.gmail.com', "SMTP Port" to 587, and set my "SMTP Password" to my gmail password. -- But I'm still not getting mails from my test orders through Paypal's Sandbox and my orders are still "on hold - awaiting payment".

Thanks for all your help!

Did you enabled po3 services in your gmail account? Baldaris

note: apparently you don't actually need to enter your paypal password in the admin/preferences required?

It appears the PayPal return URL for after the order is complete is defined by Substruct as yourcheckouthost/store/finish_order, which overrides and therefore makes it unnecessary and redundant to set the return URL via your PayPal profile.

However, I cannot find where Substruct sets this return URL. I've tried several code searches and tracing through the whole checkout process. Can anyone help? I have a necessarily unusual server setup and need to reconfigure this. Thanks!

alanomaly-- I don't believe you are correct in that assumption.

Substruct sets the url that the user is returned to after submitting the PayPal information. The user submits a form to PayPal from within the Substruct app containing hidden fields with all of the relevant order data. The user is then redirected to the url set by the hidden field with the name "return" (see vendor/plugins/substruct/app/views/store/_paypal_cart.rhtml) which happens to be the item you're trying to find. It is necessary to set the URL on your PayPal account because PayPal then does a postback to the server, hitting the paypal controller at /paypal/login. That postback is what Substruct then checks to verify that the payment has indeed been confirmed by PayPal.

However, you might not want to edit that item because it returns to the finish_order action which then updates the status of the order in the DB (or you can implement this functionality in your own action... just a note).

More information on PayPal !IPN is here

Thanks! Not sure how I missed _paypal_cart.rhtml. I did mean the user return URL, which is overridden, I wasn't trying to contradict the instructions. Post intended as general info, not a correction.

Thanks for the step-by-step run through, exactly what I'd been looking for!