Paypal Mobile Express

Can anyone tell me if PayPal Express and PayPal Standard can be used simultaneously with my store so that I can use Express for Mobile transactions and Standard for PC store transactions?  We are parsing shipping dates through on the full version from viewcart.asp and need to have the onepagecheckout process them through on PayPal payments standard. 

I just upgraded my first store to v4.5, finally, but before I did I called Paypal to have Express Checkout turned on because I also bought the mobile commerce add-on.  After I finished upgrading to v4.5, I went to the payment options section of the control panel and was asked if I wanted to activate Paypal express. I said yes and was redirected to a screen that said that I can not have paypal standard and paypal express running concurently.


NOTE: PayPal Standard must be removed to add Express Checkout or WPP.
PayPal Standard is enabled - Modify  |  Remove
 

When I spoke to the Paypal rep about this a few days before, to have paypal express turned on, it is my understanding that, as far as the paypal side is concerened, there is not an issue with having more then one paypal feature turned on at the same time. (After all, I have both paypal standard and express services turned on right now.)

Now, I am afraid to install the mobile app because I want paypal standard on my stores.

From reading the mobile app documentation, it states that the mobile app requires paypal express.  Okay, to me, that means paypal standard on the store and paypal express for the mobile app, not a problem. However, no where, in the same documentation, does it say that there can be only be one paypal option running on the store.

One of the files in the mobile app install:  /includes/pcPayPalClass.asp over writes the existing file.  Does this new file return the ability to have more then one paypal option running?  (ie: paypal standard on the store and paypal express on the mobil app.)

If anyone is in the know, or has already been down this road, could you please lend a hand I because I can not find anything about how to resolve this issue in the documentation.

Thanks,
Dave

 

Did this get figured out?

Can anyone tell me if PayPal Express and PayPal Standard can be used simultaneously with my store so that I can use Express for Mobile transactions and Standard for PC store transactions?

This is EXACTLY want I want to do but is not possible.  PayPal Express takes away the check out
process from the standard store.  This to me, gives the customer the feeling that they can only use PayPal to check out being the that check out button is gone.  From what I remember, the customer is greeted by the PayPal log in screen and not the name address form.  This is totally unacceptable in the standard store for me.  Being that I only use PayPal as my processor right now I did not know what to do.  I wanted to give the mobile people the mobile option but wanted the web store visitors the same feeling that they have now.

I wrote back and forth to product cart tech support this and this what we, they,  came up with.

<clip>  (from E-Mail they sent me.)
The mobile user will not be able to checkout with standard. Unless EC is enabled the checkout button is hidden.  Otherwise, the mobile site would be functional and allow customers to review the products.
   You can put a message on the mobile checkout page to switch to the full store to checkout.

Note: the checkout button is the check out button on the web store.

The solution?

Although it is not what I really wanted, I choose to have a message to tell the mobile user to switch to a computer based store for check out.  The code they sent me is below:

Here are instructions to add the message:

You can open the file "m/pcPay_PayPal.asp" in a text editor.

Find: (line 30)

If NOT rs.eof Then
%>
<a href="pcPay_Mobile.asp"><img  src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif" border="0" alt="Acceptance Mark"></a>
<%
End If

Replace with:

If NOT rs.eof Then
%>
<a href="pcPay_Mobile.asp"><img  src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif" border="0" alt="Acceptance Mark"></a>
<% Else %>
*** Type the message here ***
<%
End If

I used the message:  Please switch to a computer based store to check out.

I hope this helps anyone in the same situation.
I am hoping for more check out options in the future and/ or the ability to have PayPal standard on
the computer based store and PayPal Express on the mobile store.
What is going on with Amazon payments?

Dave