I've got a question on Paypal's IPN.
After creating subscription profile (recurring payment profile), the confirmation of type 'recurring_payment_profile_created' is received on IPN.
After proceeding payment, the confirmation of type 'recurring_payment' is received on IPN.
The question is how should I identify that the payment (recurring_payment) belongs to the unique(specific) profile.
Thanks.
recurring_payment_id. This will be a recurring payment profile ID in the form of I-xxxxxxxx.
This should be included in all recurring payment IPN posts.
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I am using recurring membership payment from Paypal. I would like to know if any member cancel the membership from paypal manually, how can I get the return value/URL from the paypal, so that I can track the member cancel the membership from paypal.
You can use Instant Payment Notifications and PayPal will notify you almost instantly when a customer cancels their recurring payments profile within PayPal. That will allow you to track members cancelling their memberships.
Here is a link to the documentation on IPN:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/
Here is a link for how to create an IPN Listener:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNImplementation/
i am using Paypal manager for the payment i successfully done with credit card payment with recurring payment profile from my website using PayPal manager. but now i want do recurring payment with express checkout using Paypal manager with recurring payment. i am able to do simple direct payment with express checkout using PayPal manager. i found some solution from google that we need to pass two variable
L_BILLINGAGREEMENTDESCRIPTION0 = "Your descriptor"
L_BILLINGTYPE0 = "RecurringPayments"
But i am not able to do recurring payment. I am not getting any error. but my payment have done simple payment not recurring.
Thanks in advance..
There are two things with Express Checkout. First you need to let know the whole process that you will also create some recurring payment profiles.
For that you set BillingType as RecurringPayments when you do doExpressCheckout request.
You will get the Token from paypal and later when user will be back on your site to confirm payment after signing in to Paypal you can use this token to create recurring payment profile the same way as you have done that with credit card.
So after confirming instead of sending doExpressCheckoutPayment you send createRecurringPaymentProfile request.
Of course you can also send doExpressCheckoutPayment if you want also to do some additional payment that is not recurring.
On recurring paypal payment, what happens when CC expires?
Will it send IPN notification?
Will it send email to seller and buyer?
Will it be stopped till CC is not updated and continues when it get updated?
what exactly will happen, many thing is dependent on payment on sites.
When a credit card is going to expire the buyer needs to update their billing information. They buyer will get an e-mail from PayPal saying it is going to expire and asks the user to update their billing information.
If the buyer does not update their billing details the payment will probably fail. The reason it may not fail is because they may have money in their PayPal account or another funding source. And IPN post would be sent for the failed payment.
If the buyer does update their credit or debit card information before the Recurring Profile bills you should receive the payment successfully.
I've created a recurring payments profile on Paypal setting an initial payment.
When I receive the IPN, the txn_id is the same for both the initial payment and the recurring payment. I would like to know if there's a way of differentiating between them.
I've noticed that when I receive the recurring payment, there's this variable "period_type= Regular". This doesn't appear in the initial payment IPN. Is this a good way to make the distinction?
Thanks
I think you might be getting confused with what you're getting in the IPN's.
When the profile is first created, you'll get an IPN with the profile ID of the profile that was just created, and you would only get a transaction ID if you included the original amount to be charged. The transaction ID here is only for that original amount. If you didn't have that all you would get is the profile ID.
If your recurring payments are scheduled to start on the same day as well you will get an additional IPN for the recurring payment and that will have its own transaction ID.
I am using the 'reference transactions' of the Paypal express checkout api to set up a recurring billing scenario for our customers. I have chosen this method since the amount billed per month will vary and there is no initial payment when entering into the billing agreement.
My question is, can I use the paypal IPN to detect when the user cancels this? I know that if the customer enters into this agreement they have the power to log into their own Paypal account and cancel the agreement. What variables should I be listening for through the IPN?
Whilst I see mention of recurring payments and recurring payment profiles in the IPN documentation these are not actually the same as setting up a recurring billing scenario via reference transactions (recurring payments and reference transactions are in two different parts of the general paypal api documentation).
Enable IPN in your PayPal account , then PayPal will notify you via IPN about the Billing agreement cancel from the customer.
If you include IPN with SetExpressCheckout, it will not work with Reference Transaction. You need to Enable IPN on PayPal site.