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# alanmillo

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[PayPal for WooCommerce] Clear cart when checking out from product detail page on Paypal express](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clear-cart-when-checking-out-from-product-detail-page-on-paypal-express/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clear-cart-when-checking-out-from-product-detail-page-on-paypal-express/#post-9565829)
 * Interesting, I just had a quick look, and I’m not entirely sure it will be the
   best solution for my use case, however, I will have a deeper look since it might
   help to increase conversion over time.
 * Thank you, and if at some point you made changes to support my use case, even
   if you just add some hooks that will allow me to change the way the flow works,
   it will be good enough as a starting point for me to explore.
 * Again, thanks a lot for such a great plugin!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[PayPal for WooCommerce] Clear cart when checking out from product detail page on Paypal express](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clear-cart-when-checking-out-from-product-detail-page-on-paypal-express/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clear-cart-when-checking-out-from-product-detail-page-on-paypal-express/#post-9546045)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for such a quick reply (as always).
 * My goal is to increase conversion rate, therefore I have the “skip final review”
   option enabled and I only require customers that buy non downloadable products,
   to only enter a country before checkout to calculate delivery rate. I would like
   to keep it as such as it does get confusing for the user to have to jump from
   Website -> Paypal (think is going to pay) -> Website to do final confirmation.
   This gives the user multiple chances to abandon the purchase.
 * I’m starting to think that neither of my suggestions is perfect anyway, maybe
   this one adjust better to my requirements,
 * If there is something on the cart, that is not downloadable/virtual, then go 
   to checkout page first.
    If all products in cart are downloadable, it is ok to
   go to Paypal directly, previous acceptance of terms and conditions. Even though,
   it is confusing for the user to click to buy one product and find out in paypal,
   he is buying everything on the cart. T & C can be accepted in two ways, – A pop
   up from the product page (which means, this becomes a 2 steps checkout) – A checkbox
   on each product page for T & C acceptance that is required before redirecting
   to Paypal.
 * I understand this is a particular use case that I have, so it might not be sensible
   to request it as a feature. If you folks don’t feel is something to take into
   consideration, I would appreciate if you could give me some guidance on a few
   hooks that I can use to plug the functionality in, or if there are no hooks, 
   I would appreciate if you could add a few of them for future releases, so I don’t
   have to change plugin code that will prevent me from updating to latest versions.
 * Thanks and have a good weekend.
    Alan
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[PayPal for WooCommerce] Bug, race condition on order placement](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-race-condition-on-order-placement/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-race-condition-on-order-placement/#post-6979756)
 * Thanks for your response,
 * You are right, it might not be a security bug as it doesn’t compromise the application
   as such. A more fair classification would be a “reputational bug”?
 * Given users might be able to place orders without having enough inventory, it
   will require the site owner to contact those users and potentially cancel their
   orders, having at the end of the day some unsatisfied customers. It will as well
   cost website owners some money, as Paypal transactions are not refund free (or
   at least Paypal free model is not).
 * I will check if I can manage to find a quick implementation for such feature 
   and will make a GIT pull request.
 * Cheers,
    Alan
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress] Optional tracking always tracking and placing a cookie](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-tracking-always-tracking-and-placing-a-cookie/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-tracking-always-tracking-and-placing-a-cookie/#post-6924624)
 * Hi Danny,
 * Thanks for your answer. Understood with regards to the “usage tracking” checkbox.
 * Given I’m not planning to use the cookie info on any other part of my site, I
   would like to have your code sample, if you don’t mind, so I don’t need to tell
   the user about a new cookie being added to the site ;).
 * So far the only way I’ve found to disable the functionality was by commenting
   the call in the plugin, which I really don’t want to do as that will mean having
   to make sure I make the change everytime I update the plugin.
 * Thanks Danny
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[PayPal for WooCommerce] No detailed error on failure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-detailed-error-on-failure/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-detailed-error-on-failure/#post-6636613)
 * Thanks, I will come back with more if if required, or with the solution so everyone
   else hitting this issue has a way to fix it.
 * Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[PayPal for WooCommerce] No detailed error on failure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-detailed-error-on-failure/)
 *  Thread Starter [alanmillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanmillo/)
 * (@alanmillo)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-detailed-error-on-failure/#post-6636598)
 * Thanks for tour response.
 * Just double checked cURL lib, and seems to be installed. CURL was my first thought,
   but since it seems to be ok, or at least enabled, I starting digging into Paypal
   notifications around the web and I’ve found this
 * [https://www.paypal-techsupport.com/](https://www.paypal-techsupport.com/) ->
   URGENT – 2015-2016 SSL Certificate Change Microsite
 * I’m in touch with my hosting provider, and they came back to me suggesting to
   contact Paypal, since they think Paypal is not accepting self signed certs.
    
   My personal perspective is that is not a Paypal problem, otherwise I would probably
   find my answer to the problem by just searching on google, as more than one person
   will be raising the concern.
 * At this point I can only think that the cert provided by my hosting company (
   didn’t know a cert was required to establish connection with Paypal) is expired
   or is just not using SHA-256.
    The other thought is that maybe cURL is wrongly
   configured and is expecting SSL verification as the flag to ignore it is not 
   setted.
 * unfortunately I do not have SSH access to the machine to try it by myself, so
   I guess I will have to wait for my hosting provider to come back
 * What do you think? Are my thoughts inline with a normal/possible reason for the
   issue?
 * Thanks

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