The cancel payment page applies at this time to attempted PayPal payments only. The user arrives at the page if they click on a link on the PayPal website to cancel the process of submitting payment for their ad. This page is a child page created under the main classifieds entry page. It uses the shortcode [AWPCPCANCELPAYMENT]. If this shortcode is missing or otherwise contains an error the page will not work. You can name this page anything you want. To avoid potential problems please edit the page names from within your Classifieds admin page, not from wordpress.
When customers arrive on the cancel payment page the payment buttons will be rebuilt and displayed in case they clicked the cancel payment button by mistake. In order to fill out the button with the correct information as it relates to the specific ad the user placed, the system will need to retrieve information about the ad from the URL.
In SEO Mode the information the system needs is determined by grabbing the below path setting from the classifieds admin SEO Settings option:
This value must be correct in order for the system to retrieve the correct information from the SEO URL. To check if your option setting is the correct path value refer to the example URL and chart below and apply to your own website URL structure as needed.
Example URL: http://localhost/wordpress/classifieds/cancel-payment/357_1256512109/
In the example URL above, the data the system needs is in position #3.
The Cancel Payment path setting in your classifieds admin SEO Settings options must be correct in order for the system to retrieve the correct data needed.
It is a good idea to check that your users will be able to cancel payment successfully before you take your classifieds live. To do that, put Paypal in test mode from your classifieds admin “Payment Settings” options.
To tell if your cancel payment page is properly configured, when you click the cancel link on PayPal and you are returned to your website’s cancel payment page, view the button source code. If the value for item_name, item_number, and amount are empty and the value for field custom is empty or set to “cancel-payment_” it means you do not have the correct setting in your SEO Settings for:
