Thread: Very Frustrating Problem with Vantage When Selecting a Plan

Very Frustrating Problem with Vantage When Selecting a Plan

Hey Guys,

I am operating classi and vantage on a multisite install with each of the latest versions and I am really frustrated by a problem I am having with Vantage.

My site is about ready to go live and I am just trying to iron out the kinks on the payment/paypal situation.

I have been testing my site in Paypal Sandbox and didn't have any problems. Everything worked just fine on the placement of free and featured classified ads. Similarly, everything worked fine when I attempted to place free and featured business listings. I repeat, no problems with Classipress or Vantage ad/listing submissions.

This afternoon, I attempted to make the switch over to live paypal purchases and am experiencing a very odd problem with Vantage.

Before I get to the specifics of that, I took each plan in Classi and Vantage and dropped them down to a cost of .01, .02, .03, etc. That way I could test them live but not pay the full cost of the paypal transaction fees. I then made the appropriate changes in the payment areas for both classipress and vantage


My settings in Classipress are:

Email matches vantage email
Business Premiere account box: CHECKED
Sandbox mode: unchecked

Enable PDT: unchecked
Identity token: same as identity token on Vantage site and real paypal account

Enable IPN: unchecked
Listener URL: different from vantage



My setting in Vantage are:

Email matches classipress email
Business/premiere account box: CHECKED
Sandbox mode: unchecked

Enable PDT: CHECKED
Identity token: taken from real paypal account and pasted in

Enable IPN: CHECKED
Listener URL: matches IPN url in real paypal account


So, I created a couple of new accounts from scratch on two different computers using different browsers.


When I purchase a featured ad on classipress side everything works fine. When I go to purchase a business listing, it doesn't work. Whether I select a free plan or one of the two other upgrade packages and then hit the "continue" button, the page simply reloads and won't allow me to advance. When the page reloads no matter what option I picked it refreshes with the default free plan selected.

Confused, because everything worked just fine in sandbox mode, I went and tried once more with a couple of the user accounts I created several days ago. When I used these older accounts that I created, I was able to select the plan and advance through the process of adding my listing.

I have disabled my plugins. The older user accounts that work on Vantage both have "contributor" permissions. The two new accounts that I tried to purchase a live transaction with both have "contributor" permissions.

I am perplexed by this problem and do not have any reasonable explanation for why this is occurring.

I would appreciate help on this because I cannot go live with my site until I fix this problem. Your help is greatly appreciated.