Earlier I commented on the fix for PayPal Express and Zen Cart but unfortunately it broke again. I asked PayPal to investigate as it looked as if the wrong country code was being passed – they were helpful but did not find a problem so it was back to the shopping cart php code.
Customers could not find a shipping option when returning from PayPal to AllGiftsDirect.co.uk so they abandoned their carts. Credit card payments were fine, it was only PayPal Express that had a problem.
After looking at the previous post ( by the way, using a blog to track Zen Cart changes is extremely helpful, there is no way I would have remembered which pieces of code were altered) I changed line 1825 in paypalwpp.php back to the original suggestion:
‘ship_country_name’ => urldecode($response['SHIPTOCOUNTRY']));
This was mentioned on the Zen Cart forum post number 57. PayPal express is working fine again.
It was working fine, nothing changed but it then stopped functioning correctly, so I made a small change and now it is back working again.
Aren’t computers so annoying sometimes? Apologies to any customers who found it as frustrating as I did 
I was interested in your answers to “not shipping to your country etc. and wondered if you have encountered this problem at check out using paypal express. I keep getting an error message which states” We are sorry for the inconvenience; however, at the present time we are unable to use PayPal to process orders from the geographic region you selected as your PayPal address. Please continue using normal checkout and select from the available payment methods to complete your order.” Do you have any ideas how to fix this and I have spent the last 3 days trying to get round this.
It does sound a very similar problem. As the one I describe above only happens with PayPal express.
Assuming all your zones and shipping modules are set up correctly (and possibly work with other payment methods) then check the two changes have been made, as detailed in my more recent post:
http://blog.allgiftsdirect.co.uk/2009/zen-cart-error-sorry-we-are-not-shipping-to-your-region-at-this-time/
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