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Working Paypal Module for Prestashop

Oct 28, 2009 Prestashop, web development

I just finished adding the Paypal payment option for our e-commerce site that uses Prestashop as the shopping cart application. I’m quite getting more comfortable configuring and editing the source code of Prestashop, but along with those modifications is the failure of the default Paypal payment module that came with the Prestashop code package to fail.

I was having the error “cart empty” when it redirects to the Paypal’s site, I tried modifying the module files with no luck. I searched over the Prestashop forums on how to make the Paypal module work, or an alternative module for Paypal integration with Prestashop. Here are some solutions I tried:

• Changed the permissions on the Paypal module directory (/prestashop/modules/paypal) to 777 – did not work
• Code modifications to the Paypal module, and even the sources of the Prestashop installation – did not work either

Then I tried this modified Prestashop Paypal module here, and surprisingly it worked like a charm! Here were the steps I did to install the working Paypal module for prestashop:

• Uninstalled the Paypal module from the Prestashop back office
• Deleted the files inside the paypal module folder
• Uploaded the modified module to the paypal folder
• Installed the paypal module from the back office
• Tried it out with some Paypal sandbox accounts
• Done!

We were using PSBill before for our transactions, but now it doesn’t allow Mastercard transactions anymore for businesses that do not have permits from Europe (not sure what country) so we had to use Paypal as a payment option.

Thanks to eCartService.net for the great Paypal module! And also to the Prestashop community! I love open source!

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