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1. 

   Ed on December 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm

   I’ve contact PayPal, they say I need a plugin that handles “Adaptive Payments”. Currently I have “WP Simple PayPal Shopping Cart” and would like to keep it. I tried Woo Commerce and it’s way over-kill for what I need. Can I use this plugin PayPal IPN with my shopping cart? I am not a developer and need some help with this.

   When a purchase is made on my site, lets say $40 hits my PayPal account I want the IPN to send $32 to my vendor along with some of the shipping cost as well as the customer’s name and shipping address. Will this plugin do that? Or do I need Woo Commerce??

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     Andrew Angell on December 5, 2015 at 4:36 pm

     You’ve got sort of a 2 part question going on here. If you need to work with Adaptive Payments that will probably need to be built custom. There aren’t many (if any) Adaptive Payments plugins for WordPress yet. That is what would allow you to setup Preapproval profiles and/or split payments.

     If you don’t need to split payments then you could integrate PayPal itself using any payment method you want. So your current plugin should work fine for that part. Then, yes, you could use this plugin to setup IPN on your site quickly and easily. You would then need to build in some functions/hooks to trigger payments out to another user using the Pay or MassPay API depending on exactly what the needs are at that point.

     Either way it would have to be approved by PayPal, and they’re probably going to tell you that you need to just use a split payment via the Pay API instead of triggering secondary payments in IPN.

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   Joe on January 22, 2016 at 3:37 pm

   Hello,
   I would like to design a “Thank you Page” that redirects the user back to my site after they make a donation.

   On this page I would like it to include some of the PayPal information.

   For Example…

   Thank you “JOHN SMITH” for you donation of “$10” on “12/25/2015”

   (the items in quotes are what I want to receive from PayPal).

   The reason I want to do this because:
   I want to send them back to my site
   I want to use google tag manager

   I would consider myself a moderate developer in PHP.

   Thanks,

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     Andrew Angell on January 22, 2016 at 5:40 pm

     To get data back to the return URL you would need to use PDT, which is very similar to IPN except that it’s used with a return URL instead of server to server communication. Even with PDT and Auto-Return enabled, though, the user is not guaranteed to make it back to your site, so if you’re doing any post-transaction data processing of any kind that’s always recommended to be done in IPN.

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3. 

   Steffi on February 21, 2016 at 1:20 pm

   I’m trying to set up a function where if there are no available funds within the customer’s PayPal account, then it will take them to a ‘payment failed’ page or ‘subscription failed’ page and therefore doesn’t create an account on our site. Currently, whether payment is being taken or not, our WordPress site is assuming that payment will take place (but we know this isn’t always the case) and the customer has access to our subscription-only site. I’m new to IPNs so this is a little confusing… Reading through the hook function snippet part within settings, I can see where to add the correct function I want, but I’m not sure where this goes within my WordPress site..?

   What’s the best method in telling a customer that their payment has failed and therefore they are unable to proceed with creating an account?

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     Andrew Angell on February 22, 2016 at 12:31 am

     Within various hooks / functions you could build different logic depending on the payment status. For example, for completed payments you could generate an email notification with login details to the subscription area, or whatever detail they need. If the payment is failed, pending, etc. you can a corresponding email notification and simply not activate the account on your site.

     In the case of a pending payment, you would get another IPN when the status of that payment updates (hopefully to completed). So you would end up with separate functions for each payment status.

     Those functions can go within your own plugin or they can go into your theme’s functions.php file.

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       winston on October 18, 2017 at 11:27 am

       Hi Andrew

       I want to generate an email notification for a new user with login detail (password and username) only after the paypal payment is successful. I would like this process to be automated with the help of IPN to trigger the email notification. Thank you. Looking forward yo your reply.

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         Andrew Angell on October 25, 2017 at 12:16 am

         Hi Winston,

         We’re actually working on a premium extension that will allow you to build this visually inside the WP admin panel, but it won’t be ready for another month or two probably because we’re focused on other things right now. You can do this pretty easily within code, though, if you’re comfortable with that. Do you have any specific questions about how to get it done? We could do it for you but we’d have to do it as a custom project for you. You can submit a quote request if you’re interested in that. Thanks!

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   Roham on April 21, 2016 at 7:12 pm

   Hello, I looked at the ipn for public and ipn loader php files, still not sure where to start in order to make use of the ‘payment_completed’ hook. I’d like to execute a few lines of php code when ‘payment_status’ equals “Completed”. Your help would be appreciated.

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     Andrew Angell on April 27, 2016 at 1:37 am

     I’m sorry for the delay getting back to you on this. If you are still having trouble please submit a ticket here and I’ll be happy to help.

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5. 

   Thomas T. George on April 30, 2016 at 9:52 pm

   I’m setting up a new WordPress website along with an email campaign to launch a new healing center. The end user will click a PayPal button in the email and will be taken directly to the PayPal payment page. Once the payment is complete I’d like the person to be taken to our website to a successful transaction page where they will be able to print out a receipt as well as a voucher that will have five unique service slips, each with the unique transaction number from PayPal and the date of purchase, as well as the user’s first and last name. Can this plugin be used to accomplish this? Thanks, Thomas

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     Andrew Angell on May 3, 2016 at 1:02 am

     Some of this you can get done with our plugin, but some of it you’ll need to do another way. We can certainly help you get all this working, but we’ll need to give you a bid on custom work. If that’s something you’d be interested in please submit a request here.

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6. 

   Goran on May 6, 2016 at 12:18 pm

   I’m forwarding an IPN from my website to external invoicing service so automatic invoice can be created by their API. I’m using the following code:

   add_action( ‘valid-paypal-standard-ipn-request’, function( $post ) {
   wp_remote_post( ‘https://apiaddresshere’, array( ‘body’ => $post ) );
   } );

   It works fine for regular orders, however it doesn’t work when an IPN for recurring order is received. What function is fired for recurring orders? Is there one code I can use to forward any kind of IPN received or do I need to add a separate action for recurring IPNs. In that case, what would be the code to forward recurring IPNs?

   Not a developer here so be gentle 🙂

   Thanks,
   krko

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     Andrew Angell on May 9, 2016 at 6:02 pm

     Please submit this question to our help desk and I’ll answer it in the order it comes in. Thanks!

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7. 

   Rachid on January 12, 2017 at 6:59 am

   HI,

   I am using CF7 and paypal add on pro. I want my customers and my self receiving emails only after the payment submitted. Those your plugin with some hook can help me to do so?
   Thanks

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     Andrew Angell on January 12, 2017 at 7:35 am

     Yes, you could use the paypal_ipn_for_wordpress_payment_status_completed hook for that. It gets triggered any time a payment is completed on PayPal. You can review our hook documentation for a full list of hook options.

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8. 

   Alain on March 30, 2017 at 10:57 am

   Hi actually i have a problem i hope you can help me i’m using paypal_ipn_for_wordpress_payment_status_completed so any time a IPN reach my site i keep the data on my BD but now with the same IPN the process is making 4 or 5 records on my BD for one trasacction

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     Andrew Angell on March 30, 2017 at 11:03 am

     When that sort of thing is happening it’s typically because the IPN script is not completing successfully and returning a 200 response back to PayPal’s server. It could be getting through the DB update code, so you see that reflected, but then it fails after that resulting in a 500 response to PayPal, and as such, PayPal sends another one.

     One way you can check this is by looking at IPN History in your PayPal account. Also looking at your web server logs should help. You should be able to see the actual error happening in the logs.

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9. 

   Mohsin on June 21, 2017 at 2:09 pm

   Hey,
   I’m using your PayPal IPN for WordPress plugin alongside WooCommerce. I am using another plugin to add a custom field on checkout in WooCommerce, and I would like to include information from this custom checkout field into the IPN data and use it to insert information in my local database. Here’s the code I have to add to my IPN after the purchase:

   mysqli_query($con,”INSERT INTO `users` (sc_username,payment_email,trans_id,forum_uid) VALUES (‘”.$db->escape_string($custom[‘sc_user’]).”‘,'”.$db->escape_string($ipn_data[‘payer_email’]).”‘,'”.$db->escape_string($ipn_data[‘txn_id’]).”‘,'”.intval($loggedinUsersUID).”‘)”) or die(mysqli_error($con));

   I would like to know how I can add this to my IPN using your plugin.

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     Andrew Angell on June 22, 2017 at 4:02 am

     The first thing you’ll need to is add your custom value to the CUSTOM parameter in the PayPal requests. We have hooks included in the plugin to get this done, but we don’t yet have the documentation updated. Let me know which gateways you’re working with specifically and I can show you what hook to use for that. Then your value will come back in $posted[‘custom’] within our IPN plugin.

     If you are working with Express Checkout the filter hook name is: ae_ppec_custom_parameter

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10. 

    billy on June 22, 2017 at 4:14 pm

    Guys im really stuck – i want to trigger an email whenever a payment status is notified as Completed.
    I understand i need a bit of code but i simply dont know where im supposed to place this code!
    Any advice??

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      Andrew Angell on June 22, 2017 at 4:19 pm

      Hook functions go in your theme’s functions.php file or in your own basic plugin file.

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11. 

    Ed Hobbs on July 2, 2017 at 3:30 pm

    I am looking for a simple way to get the information PayPal sends back upon a successful membership purchase transaction or the e-mail itself sent to our accountant since PayPal will only allow one e-mail address to get that e-mail. Have your PayPal IPN plugin installed and I am not a super technical person and can’t “see” the next step.

    The website is a test version as a subdomain of another personal site I have. Am migrating our existing http://www.mwtca.org Joomla site to WordPress for ease of support. We are an all volunteer, not for profit association of antique tool collectors.

    Thanks so much in advance for your help!!! Ed

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      Andrew Angell on July 2, 2017 at 8:27 pm

      Hi Ed,

      The hook functions can go in your theme’s functions.php file or within your own plugin. I would recommend doing it from within your own plugin, which is very simple. Download this plugin template, and you’ll see it’s setup with a single hook function. This sample function sends an email to a given address for all IPNs that hit the site, which is what the “paypal_ipn_for_wordpress_ipn_response_handler” hook is for.

      All you need to do is customize the function so that it builds a more complete email that you’d like to send, and then you may want to adjust the hook name, too, so that instead of sending for ALL IPNs, it would only send for completed payments, for example. In that case you would use the “paypal_ipn_for_wordpress_payment_status_completed” hook instead. Of course, you can setup a variety of different hooks to handle different transaction types and payment status differently.

      Hope that helps! If you have more questions please submit an order for premium support and then we could schedule a phone/video conference with you to walk you through it.

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12. 

    Marco on January 13, 2018 at 4:58 am

    Hi, thanks for plugin. Is possible not store IPN data?

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      Andrew Angell on January 13, 2018 at 5:05 am

      If you’re not storing the data, what exactly are you doing with the plugin? I suppose you could write a function to delete the post and then call that function after doing whatever processing you’re wanting to do.

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        Marco on January 13, 2018 at 5:10 am

        Yes, this is my idea 🙂
        Because I don’t wont hold all data in WP Database.
        How I can delete your post? It is a custom post_type?

        Best regards

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          Andrew Angell on January 14, 2018 at 2:08 am

          Yes, the IPN records are store as custom post type called paypal_ipn, so you could use wp_delete_post() accordingly.

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    Marco on January 14, 2018 at 3:34 am

    Thanks.

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14. 

    Daniel on April 20, 2018 at 1:45 pm

    Hi.
    I bought “IPN Forwarder”.
    Is there a doc about the plugin?
    “Enable Smart Forwarding” ?
    I tested it with “IPN Field” -> All and with “Payment Status” -> Completed.
    In my Php file “PayPal IPN Forwarding URL” I only set a mail function to hook when the page is fired.
    I did Orders with Woocommerce. But I didn’t received nothing (only the order emails from Woocommerce)
    “Paypal IPN” list transactions are OK (Payment Status : Completed)

    Thank you.

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      Andrew Angell on April 22, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      We still need to get the info about Smart Forwarding added to our documentation. Sorry for the confusion on that. Basically, that lets you setup triggers to only forward the IPN to the specified URL if the conditions in the trigger you setup are met. Otherwise, that forward rule would be ignored for orders that don’t trigger that condition.

      Our plugin has an IPN History under the settings. Can you check to see what it shows for the forwarded data?

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15. 

    dale on August 17, 2018 at 10:01 pm

    hello recently downloaded ipn for wordpress, i was wondering, first, where might one find the predefined hooks defined, and more specifically, how does one utilize the hooks

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      Andrew Angell on August 17, 2018 at 11:52 pm

      Take a look at our Developer Guide. Then at the bottom of that it will lead you into the Developer Hooks Guide.

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16. 

    VaughnSC on January 6, 2019 at 11:33 pm

    Hello; No mention of event order in the docs: do all these hooks fire before the post is actually inserted?

    I’m testing with the ‘catch-all’ and querying for txn_id but not getting a result on a new transaction, whereas a ‘repeat’ IPN succeeds.

    The goal is to generate an additional postmeta record so I need to supply post_id.

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      Andrew Angell on January 10, 2019 at 6:04 pm

      I am not 100% sure on this. I will check with our lead developer for this plugin and get back to you soon.

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      Andrew Angell on January 17, 2019 at 10:13 pm

      Did you try something like this? https://pastebin.com/0sj1EZqt

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