
Hope this article will help you people who are looking out for Auto Redirect the page to the site after making the successful payments.
Paypal will allow you to do this with help of “return” variable either in your Form or in Link
for ex :
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_donations" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="businessname@email.com" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="10" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="usd" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Donations for My Website" /> <input name="image_url" type="hidden" value="http://website.com/images/paypallogo.png" /> <input name="return" type="hidden" value="http://website.com/thanks.html" /> <input name="cancel_return" type="hidden" value="http://website.com/donate.html" /> <input alt="Donate with PayPal" name="submit" src="http://website.com/images/donatebutton.png" type="image" /> </form>
IN the above button
<input name="return" type="hidden" value="http://website.com/thanks.html" />
This will do the Magic.
Hold on Folks … we are not Done YET. We need to do another setting too ..
For Setting Up Auto Return
- Log in and click the Profile subtab under My Account.
- Click the Website Payment Preferences link under Selling Preferences.
- Click the On to enable Auto Return.
- Enter the Return URL. Note: You must meet the Return URL requirements in order to set up Auto Return. Learn more about Return URL
Now, Its time to GO.. Now, when ever your customers do the payments it will automatically redirects to the URL what you have given …
