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Question I receive an error when I click on the pay with PayPal Link.

Error Detected

The link you have used to enter the PayPal system contains an incorrectly formatted item amount.


Answer PayPal currently only supports US currency formatting. This means that amounts must be formatted in the US currency format on your site. So amounts would look like this $1.00. The decimal point must be present in the proper place and the dollar sign must also be present.

If your server currently formats currency in any other way than US formatting, you will need to override your regional settings with the following line of code placed into the XUD Software at the top of the XUDdb.asp file:

<%@ LCID=1033%>

This code will correct the formatting problem with currency.