Express Checkout - Referrer Adjustment..??

[angelleye]

• https://www.angelleye.com/support/scp/tickets.php?id=1257
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-url-details/
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paypal-referral-in-google-analytics/

A common complaint I get (and I experience myself) is that when people checkout with Express Checkout, the "referrer" logged for the transaction in Google Analytics or similar tools is paypal.com instead of the original place they came from before choosing to pay with PayPal.

Need to find a way to catch these instances, and leave the original referrer set instead of updating to paypal.com when returned from PayPal.

It's possible the In Context checkout experience that we're doing in #199 would be a way to resolve this, but I've never tested that specifically.

May I suggest … that the Return URL be displayed on the PP Express for WC setup/details screen. It’s a detail that users need for analytics setup etc. Instead of digging around to find out, having it on the setup screen would be helpful. Not a biggie, just a thought.

1. ?utm_nooverride=1 – as per Paypal official documentation

[angelleye]

Thought we had this handled in #492 but what we did there apparently isn't solving the problem.