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AlexQueue
AlexQueue

Reputation: 6551

PayPal: Tracking a User Through IPN From Adaptive Payments API

I need to track user payments on my site, but there is nothing in an IPN that I have been able to link to my original payment.

Some people suggested using the "custom" field (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11251109/paypal-button-sending-custom-variable-through-ipn), but that doesn't seem to be an option through the Adaptive Payments API.

So are there any fields I can attach to my Pay API call or my SetPaymentOptions API call that will a) be invisible to the user, and b) come back in the IPN so I can track the payment?

My only other options are to either track with the paykey (but that seems wrong since it is public and expires and a given transaction can have several paykeys), or to send the ipn notification to a tracked url such as www.example.com/payments/ipn/{transaction_id}

I'm just fairly shocked if there's no legitimate way for me to track a payment.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 657

Answers (1)

joscas
joscas

Reputation: 7674

I think this could be of use to you: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/forums/mobile/how-fetch-invoice-data-using-adaptive-payments-api

Upvotes: 1

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