MOBILE checkout page for PayPal Add to Cart button and variable dollar amount Buy Now button?

Question

I'm having trouble figuring out how to get two particular button types to take MOBILE PHONE users to a mobile version of the payment page. I have PayPal Payments Standard: ~ Add to Cart ~ Buy Now without a dollar amount (customer enters it themself to pay a bill)

The buttons generated in my account lead to the payment screen where the user has to enter all their data but it's MUCH too TINY on a mobile phone. How does it get to be mobile responsive? Is it a special code, or is there some other way to do it that isn't overly complicated?

Would appreciate some help. I have done hours of research to try to solve this.

Answer 1

Generally PayPal payment page (the page payers see when they click the button) does detect mobile devices automatically and display mobile style. I happened to be testing a buy now button today and it worked fine. Please check the source code the button uses.

If ok please post here the code and how to reproduce.

Answer 2

Here is the answer I want to share to help anyone else who's struggling with this issue. As mentioned earlier, I have an old PayPal account.

I had a special phone appointment with PayPal's development team and discovered:

1. There are no add to cart buttons that lead to mobile checkout in PayPal Payments Standard accounts. For this I would have to get Mobile Express Checkout, which the PayPal rep himself said is complicated to integrate (I checked and it really is) OR get PayPal Payments Pro for $30 per month. I don't want to do either or those.

2. There is no way to get a $0 (no set dollar amount) button to lead to mobile checkout because any time the customer has to enter data such as an amount, quantity, etc, that invalidates the mobile compatibility. It is called an "Unsupported Use Case": https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/products/mobile-paypal-payments-standard/

My only button solution is to use individual Buy Now buttons with set amounts, because there is a mobile payment page for those. But I won't make my customers pay for one thing at a time, that's incredibly annoying and unprofessional.

So I've decided to just go with a third party shopping cart for my website like PrestaShop, OpenCart, or even WordPress with WooCommerce. They won't cost me anything because I'll install them on my hosting account. (If I had under 10 products I would use the free Ecwid option, but I have too many.)

It has been a long journey!