Hi maniacs.
I have done with registration form (https://wikimania.tw/registration/index.php) this afternoon, after that, however, my web browser Opera crashed during attempting payment at paypal session invoked from a form confirmation screen. I've got a "Registration received" email from wm07reg@wikimania.tw, including Confirmation Number. (I expected a bit if there were a paypal link at registeration status querying page if I have not finished payment, but that (my) idea seems somewhat confusing though.)
In this situation, how could I pay by PayPal?
I thought these steps would work:
1. Login PayPal 2. Click "Send Money" 3.1. To: wm07reg@wikimania.tw 3.2. Amount: amount shown in the registration confirmation page 3.3. Currency: (USD)
If this is not correct, please tell me the right way.
Thanks in advance.
--OTA Takashi
Hi, Ota San,
Thanks for your mail.
Please login paypal and pay to "wm07registration@wikimedia.org"
wikimania.tw is only a server with our registration system, and the server is from our co-sponsor "Academia Sinica". When the registration system received your registration, it will send you an email. (and it looks like you have received.) Please don't pay to wm07reg@wikimania.tw, because it is not out paypal account.
Thank you and hope to see you in Taipei.
Regards,
Theodoranian
2007/5/6, Takashi OTA supertakot+wikimania@gmail.com:
Hi maniacs.
I have done with registration form ( https://wikimania.tw/registration/index.php) this afternoon, after that, however, my web browser Opera crashed during attempting payment at paypal session invoked from a form confirmation screen. I've got a "Registration received" email from wm07reg@wikimania.tw, including Confirmation Number. (I expected a bit if there were a paypal link at registeration status querying page if I have not finished payment, but that (my) idea seems somewhat confusing though.)
In this situation, how could I pay by PayPal?
I thought these steps would work:
- Login PayPal
- Click "Send Money"
3.1. To: wm07reg@wikimania.tw 3.2. Amount: amount shown in the registration confirmation page 3.3. Currency: (USD)
If this is not correct, please tell me the right way.
Thanks in advance.
--OTA Takashi
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On 5/6/07, THD theodoranian@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Ota San,
Thanks for your mail.
Please login paypal and pay to "wm07registration@wikimedia.org"
I am not the original poster, but since I have only been curious of how paypal works, I have made some test.
If you try to pay paypal , going to paypal website and inserting the e-mail address by end, you get a page that is rather different than the one you get from the registration web site. In the page you get there is no references to the registration code (who pay can insert this information in the message box in the confirmation screen, but the user can do that only in the last paypal's screen, named confirmation and no earlier- a bit confusing thing - and I think the data you get are different).
Are you able to connect registration and payment even if they are done in this way?
I have found a way to get back to the page with the "buy now" button (it is the same way you get back from the paypal web site if you press the link "Cancel and return to Merchant"). If this URL is inserted in the web browser you can get to the same paypal page again you got in the first time (by clicking on "buy now" button again)
However I am not going to post the URL needed for that now for two reason
1) If the original poster have already paid (this depends on when his/her system crashed) he/she will have the amount charged two time
2) revealing this URL may open some security problems, so I can publish it only if I am assured that no security problems are involved.
AnyFile
I am not the original poster, but since I have only been curious of how paypal works, I have made some test.
Thank you for your interesting test.
- If the original poster have already paid (this depends on when
his/her system crashed) he/she will have the amount charged two time
I have not paid yet (not received payment receipt email from PayPal).
--OTA Takashi
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