I'm working with oscommerce and i have problem with Paypal ipn When someone makes a payment, even though the money is coming through OK, on the backend of the website it is saying it is unverified
something like that
: PayPal IPN Verified [Completed (Unverified; $99.90).
I get the email "Notification of payment received" so why is it still pending?
any idea?
Thanks in advance
The "Unverified" there may mean the buyer has not finished the Paypal account/address verification process.
This information is included in the variable payer_status:
Possible Values
verified Customer has a Verified PayPal account.
unverified Customer has an Unverified PayPal account.
Details: https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/en_US/files/developer/PP_OrderMgmt_IntegrationGuide.pdf
page 52
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Working on a sandbox, Paypal will always send me back and IPN message with the pair payment_status:pending.
I know that this might happen due to different currencies and that I can change settings in my account to accept different currencies.
But, I am using the service when a seller and a buyer that I don't know make a transaction, so I can not do anything about it .
Is there a way to allow any currency in the POST request ?
What really the seller see when the payment status is pending ?
If the payment status will change to completed later, how will my IPN message look? there is nothing that says how the object from IPN will look when status is changing ? how can I handle such change ?
Solved by sending money to the sandbox account and not to my real live account.
So, you must send funds from a sandbox email to another sandbox email.
Create another merchant account on the developer website
Send money from a sandbox buyer to a sandbox seller
I've been testing PayPal payments and received the IPN as expected on my staging/sandbox environment. However I noticed that the IPN for refunds are not being sent. I have verified this against my application as well as the Sandbox business account and the IPN history only shows the payment but not the refunded IPN. The payment history do however reflect the refunded status of the payments.
Can someone tell me if this is an expected behaviour since both the IPN history and the payment records do not tally? Thanks.
This is similar to the issue reported on but there's been no reply since: PayPal refunds not generating IPN anymore
I would advise you to get in touch with the PayPal team to check on this. We will need more information to check on this. You may get back to us via the link below.
https://www.paypal-techsupport.com/app/ask
Thank you.
So this is probably more of a discussion item so I apologise if this should go elsewhere.
But I need to handle Responses (IPN) from using Paypal MassPay API.
At the moment I'm handling the Notifications correctly and tracking past payments made (Royalty Payments System).
Problem 1: Unclaimed Payments
But I've encountered an issue which I can't seem to handle on the sandbox site and that is Unclaimed payments. Now according to MassPay guide:
If the recipients do not have PayPal accounts, PayPal notifies them that a payment is available and they must create a PayPal account to receive the payment.
I assume this means that Paypal sends the user an email, I tried to test this but I received no notification
Problem 2: Claiming unclaimed Payments
Following the previous problem, I've been unable to test users claiming unclaimed values. So I'm wondering does anybody know how Paypal processes these and the format of the response;
Does the response contain all previously claimed payments?
Does the response contain all unclaimed payments?
Does the response contain the status of all transfers in that transaction?
Thank you in advance
When you send out your MassPay request, any unclaimed payments will be pending until they're claimed. Your IPN will show "processed" instead of "completed" for the status. Once they claim the payment you will get another IPN showing the payment has been completed.
When working in the sandbox you won't get any actual emails from their system. All test emails show up in your developer.paypal.com account under the test email section there.
My PayPal IPN scripts runs very well. When I test with my sandbox account it, the payment is made instantly, however when I use my client's business email, I got payment_status as 'Pending', with pending_reason as 'unilateral' in the IPN log call.
My client's email is confirmed at PayPal. So can anyone tell me why I am getting this issue?
pending_reason=unilateral means that the email address of the payment recipient has not been registered with PayPal. For the full list of pending reasons, see the PayPal IPN documentation.
Check the email address for typos, and double-check with your client that they truly have registered their address with PayPal (they may not understand what this entails).
Only accounts made in www.sandbox.paypal.com exists when testing on www.sandbox.paypal.com. So you can't use live accounts for testing, because they don't exist within the sandbox site. You should create the accounts at developer.paypal.com
I had this problem - I was sending PayPal my "live" payer_email, when I changed it to the business email in the sandbox it worked. same as my live email with ****-facilitator#yoursite.com
Double-check if your Paypal primary email address has been confirmed. For me this error happened when my client's email wasn't confirmed yet, of all things!
Im trying to set up a PayPal IPN system on my site, but I try to test it in the PayPal sandbox, I think it's not working fine.
I've got a developer account in the sandbox. I've created 2 accounts: buyer and seller. I use the IPN simulator to send a POST request to my page. The request seems just fine, but when I login into the sandbox seller account, the amount of money didnt change. If I login with the buyer account, the amount didnt change either. Shouldnt they change according with the IPN purchase I just simulate?
Also, if I go to IPN record in the paypal account, it's empty.
If I send back the request to PayPal to verify it, I get: VERIFIED from PayPal, so it seems correct.
I post here the POST request Im getting from PayPal:
cmd=_notify-validate
test_ipn=1
payment_type=instant
payment_date=10%3A21%3A42+Apr+03%2C+2011+PDT
payment_status=Completed
address_status=confirmed
payer_status=verified
first_name=John
last_name=Smith
payer_email=buyer_1301850921_per%40my_email.net
payer_id=TESTBUYERID01
address_name=John+Smith
address_country=United+States
address_country_code=US
address_zip=95131
address_state=CA
address_city=San+Jose
address_street=123%2C+any+street
business=seller_1301846568_biz%40my_email.net
receiver_email=seller_1301846568_biz%40my_email.net
receiver_id=M3PZFZDNE3HKU
residence_country=US
item_name=something
item_number=AK-1234
quantity=1
shipping=3.04
tax=2.02
mc_currency=EUR
mc_fee=0
mc_gross=15
mc_gross_1=10
txn_type=web_accept
txn_id=42431721
notify_version=2.1
custom=Los+23+pinos
charset=windows-1252
verify_sign=AGJ1AjjJzH2s7fC2Gg3c.JDtZCK1A.hF6JlaXSYSYzM-krKKk.SLx50l
IPN is not a transactional functionality. It merely allows PayPal to send you a POST with transaction data whenever a transaction has been made.
If you're looking to transfer funds, you'd be looking at either Website Payments Standard, Express Checkout, Website Payments Pro, Paflow Link, Payflow Pro or Adaptive Payments.
I found out that IPN does NOT simulate the transfer of funds, so if you want to test it you need to point your checkout form to the sandbox URL