I know this is 6 months past the last post but I will chime in. We use the paypal standard button for close to 15-20 yrs and it works great except for the shipping where you need to declare either value based shipping or weight based, but because I can train someone to do it in a short period of time, I can over look that issue. We were told about the deprecation and were sent the video as well when we called into paypal support. I have php experience, html 5, css etc but it was hard to follow the video. I have no Json experience and I am hesitant to learn on this with someone's credit card. The problem seems to exist with the check out page and that seems to be what they are deprecating, more so than the buttons. I called paypal and was sent to a product specialist, Brendan Cordell. Since I talked with him once about the issue and a replacement about 4 months ago, he has not answered any of my emails. Another product specialist told me they are working on something in March 2024 and she would get back to me but she does not answer her emails or phone either. The big problem appears to be in the check out page. I have been looking for a work around since we use a lot of tables in our website so the customer can make product decisions quickly between items and the paypal buttons fit neatly into the table on an existing html 5 / css website and the customer can use the continue shopping option. I don't really know where to go at this point. I hesitate to write my own check out page for reasonable fear of botching it and time is a problem. I have talked with several payment gateway people who claim to have a solution but they don't. They have a one off purchase solution but not a multiple product solution. The paypal solution was unique because you could drop it into your existing website in a nice neat fashion. You could keep the form and feel of your website that you wrote for the customers and have the ecommerce experience. We have 15,000 sku's of which only about 500 use the buttons. We were set to expand it to all 15K when we got the news in October 2023 about button deprecation. Any one with any ideas, please let us know. We like paypal but we are being left with no alternative but to leave paypal.
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