Failed Order

Same here! I’ve missed about 5 sales in the last 1 hour from this!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by flexserve. Reason: Need info ASAP

Same. We had a bunch of failed orders on Friday (8/12) and I had to disable the plugin for the weekend so it wouldn’t interfere with our other payment gateways – because it was. Our site is hosted on SiteGround, if this plugin interferes with some of their features. Please help!

Hi everyone,

If you are using the SiteGround Optimizer plugin, please either disable JavaScript Frontend Optimizations or whitelist the PayPal Payments scripts as mentioned here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-conflict-with-our-site/#post-15917222
Thanks!

You could also downgrade to the previous version 1.9.1 as it is not negatively impacted by the minifaction.
We’re looking to implement a feature in the next update that automatically prevents the SiteGround Optimizer plugin from breaking PayPal Payments so you don’t have to do anything.

Kind regards,
Niklas

Hi. Thank you so much for your help. I am experiencing a new related problem:

woocommerce->settings->payments and click manage for paypal:

1. paypal only shows as a payment method on the frontend checkout when i have “enable buttons on checkout” selected. but i don’t want the buttons. they crash our cart. i have “enable the paypal gateway” checked, so you’d think it would show up like it always has.

2. if i go back to woocommerce->settings->payments and click manage again, everything goes back to an unchecked state and paypal no longer shows up in our checkout.

this was never an issue until Friday when whatever new “update” occurred actually ruined what had been working fine for years. I really hope I have communicated my problem, and even moreso that you can help! Thanks a lot.

@niklasinpsyde I am having a similar issue and am not using the SiteGround optimizer plugin

Unless your problem is 100% the same as the thread starter, we ask everyone to please create your own thread as explained in the forum guidelines because chances are, you’re facing a different issue.

This thread is about the problem @adleyho reported and includes TRANSACTION_REFUSED error messages. These error messages require the PayPal MTS to investigate and most likely do not affect anyone else in this thread.
Everyone will receive appropriate attention when creating a separate thread just for themselves.
Thanks for your consideration!

Kind regards,
Niklas

Hi Niklas,
I do not use the SiteGround Optimizer plugin on my sites. It’s about 10% of orders on my sites failed because of the errors I mentioned above. I don’t know what caused that. Could you please explain and provide a solution to fix it? I appreciate your help!

Hi @adleyho,

As mentioned above, the TRANSACTION_REFUSED error requires input from the PayPal Merchant Technical Support because it’s coming from the PayPal system.
I suggest reaching out to the MTS with a copy of your plugin log files (if available).
The user should see this error in the Checkout:

Failed to process the payment. Please try again or contact the shop admin.

But the problem is on PayPal’s end (or with the buyer’s funding source).

But the other error Could not retrieve order. is a plugin-related problem. It can potentially occur when the buyer sees the regular “Place order” button on the Checkout page instead of the PayPal smart buttons and then clicks it. PayPal Payments only works with the PayPal smart buttons.
This could happen when the buyer uses an outdated & unsupported browser or has disabled JavaScript. Or, as other users reported, on environments hosted on SiteGround with their Optimizer plugin.

Could you please share with us a copy of your WooCommerce system report so we can learn more about the website configuration?
The system report can be accessed from here:
WooCommerce > Status > Get system report > Copy for support
You can share it either here in the forums or privately with us from here:
https://paypal.inpsyde.com/docs/request-support/
Please include a link to this thread if you send a private message.
Thanks!

Kind regards,
Niklas

Hi @niklasinpsyde
Here is woo system report of my site

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Hello,

this thread is related to the plugin conflict that exists with the SiteGround Optimizer plugin together with our 1.9.2 release. Please don’t add to the thread if your issue is not related to this and open a new thread.

This problem can be caused when using Frontend Optimization features (JavaScript) from the SiteGround Optimizer plugin.
The?regular “Place order” button?is hidden by the PayPal Payments plugin and then replaced by the smart buttons.
Certain features in the?SiteGround Optimizer plugin?can essentially break this functionality, and then orders would fail if the buyer clicks the regular “Place order” button.
This wasn’t a big issue in the previous PayPal Payments version, but in the latest version 1.9.2, things work a little bit differently, and we did not anticipate there to be potential for a conflict.
Please try disabling the following features (JavaScript) in the Siteground Optimizer plugin:
– Minify JavaScript Files
– Combine JavaScript Files

Or you can also try whitelisting the PayPal Payments scripts mentioned here:?https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-paypal-payments/#faq-paypal-smart-buttons-not-loading
Let us know how this works for you!

Alternatively, you can also find all previous plugin versions at the bottom of this page:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/woocommerce-paypal-payments/advanced/
Or here on GitHub:
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-paypal-payments/releases

We also have a fix in place for our next release, you can test this fix with the beta release that you can download here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-paypal-payments/releases/tag/1.9.3-rc2
Our next official release should also resolve this issue.

If your issue is not related to this, then please open a new thread.
I will mark this thread as resolved.

Kind regards,
Joost