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PayPal API errors break payments after form submit

Live PayPal payments throw connection and fatal API errors after the form submits, and the usual fixes do not help.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

6 public reports · first reported 29 August 2019 · last reported 19 September 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners using this WordPress plugin to take PayPal payments through Contact Form 7 report that submissions break after the buyer returns from PayPal.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.