Cart66-lite [checkout_paypal_express] returns empty cart, no download

Hi,

Tearing my hair out using Cart66-lite v1.3:

I want to use [checkout_paypal_express] to sell downloadables.

Everything goes smoothly to a point:

1. Add to Cart
2. View Cart [cart mode="read"]
3. Checkout [checkout_paypal_express]
4. Redirected to Paypal, successful payment
5. Returned to the site /store/express/ [express], and I see: “Your Cart is Empty, Continue Shopping”, then “Billing Info (correct)” and “Complete Order”.
6. Clicking Complete Order takes me to /Store/Receipt/ which is almost complete, but has no product in the table, a $0 total, and no download link 🙁

I’m pretty sure that I know how it SHOULD function, because if I set a product to user-defined price, then I see a read-only cart at /store/express/ and the correct receipt complete with download at /store/receipt/.

[checkout_paypal_express] fails for products with set-price and variables which change the price, but works for user-defined price.

[checkout_paypal] works as advertised, but I’m not automatically returned to the website, which is not great for business 🙁

I’m really keen to subscribe to Pro, but I’m leery of committing given that

• the free version isn’t working for me out of the box, and
• I can’t see the support forums to get a feel for how satisfied / supported people are there.

I don’t want a free product – I want to evaluate the Pro!

Fingers crossed – this (major) issue aside, the process has been vastly preferrable to working with WPEC!

Hopefully bold text makes the long post intelligible 🙂

Cheers, Tim

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cart66-lite/