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Wandtket
Wandtket

Reputation: 29

PayPal Instant Payment Notification for Held Payments

So I'm using an API to receive payment notifications,

I don't really care what's in the notification I just want paypal to notify the API when a payment has been made and execute my own code.

So first off is this even going to work?

I put the URL for the API in the Instant Payment Notification under my account settings. My account is still new because I sent a test payment and it didn't work, do held payments not notify the IPN?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (1)

Preston PHX
Preston PHX

Reputation: 30412

If the payment is held within PayPal it will notify via IPN, yes. You will be able to see such held payments by logging into www.paypal.com and viewing the activity. There will also be a "pendingreason" value in the IPN, to notify you of why it is held.

Note that if at transaction time a "notify_url" is set by the integration (many older shopping carts do this), that URL will be used in place of whatever is set at the account level in www.paypal.com. Whatever was set at transaction time has precedence.

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If an order is "on hold" by your shopping cart (pending payment), PayPal will not send any notification as nothing has taken place within its system (except maybe a checkout attempt that was clicked on but not finished for whatever reason)

Upvotes: 1

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