I am new to creating PayPal buttons and the owner of the small site (who is using squarespace for the site), says he isn't getting notifications of a the purchases.
How can i make sure he is getting notification of the paypal button purchases?
I would greatly appreciate any help that I can get on this.
Kind Regards,
Alex
check the following
Spam or bulk Social Tab in emails; sometimes payment notifs go in
there depending on email client; gmail etc.
Log into PayPal account
profile settings
my settings
notifications
Make sure: "I receive money with PayPal" is checked
If you checked all the following and they checkout ok; then open an ticket to the technical team # https://www.paypal-techsupport.com/ / contact support link at the bottom
Hope this helps
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when I make a payment with paypal on my site for a downloadable pdf book, the payment works well but I do not receive the email with the download link.
and after payment a google page is displayed with an error message redirection too many.
But when I look at the logs the email is sent but I don't receive it. However if I pay by credit card everything works. Do you have an idea? Thanks
Problem solved, I just updated the theme
Having a nightmare with this and cannot find a solution anywhere - the only similar issues I find are the exact opposite problem!
Placing an order using PayPal (standard) at checkout puts the order 'On hold' in wp, but completes on the front end and the user even receives the PayPal receipt so are none the wiser. In the PayPal business account there is nothing.
Interestingly, PayPal express checkout works fine! So the account is definitely setup correctly. Something I have noticed is that the receipt from the express checkout transaction and from the standard have different Merchant names - the standard one (the one not working)has the name#emailaddress.com rather than the merchant name. This would suggest that this is the issue, but I've been into the business settings and checked this as well as the Woocommerce settings and everything is in order.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
For Woocommerce PayPal standard you have to enable Auto return url and Notification url(Instant payment notification) which will update the order status on your woocommerce. Refer the following URL link: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/paypal-standard/ and enable both Auto return & Instant payment notification settings on the Merchant/Business PayPal account. Please note that Merchant PayPal account is not linked with any other website.
PayPal Express checkout is recommended: https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-gateway-paypal-express-checkout/
I would recommend you just stick with Express Checkout. It has many more features and options than PayPal Standard. I would recommend the PayPal for WooCommerce, though, which is the one PayPal reps would recommend as well if you talk to them.
I have this site where visitors can pay for certain digital goods, after which they'll be presented with a download link. These downloads links last for a week before they die and become useless
I want to allow users to purchase items without having to create an account first, but just by supplying the payment details and email. I figured I could send the download link to their email once paid, but this is kind of problematic if they accidentally specific an incorrect email when paying.
Any suggestions on how best to accomplish this?
I've made such a purchase on a site called WrapBootstrap (https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/flatboard-angularjs-admin-frontend-WB0G434G7). It integrates with PayPal in that they are navigated to PayPal, pay, and when they return, PayPal notified the site the payment was successful and then WrapBootstrap displays the download link.
I liked how seamless it was but what I found was if I ever wanted to download an item again, I didn't have a personal record of it (either in email or account). One drawback from a non-account perspective. Check it out and let me know if that answers your question.
I need some help typing to figure out what im doing wrong.
My site is setup to manage orders using WooCommerce. the site is a public site, but my Perl Script needs to be implemented as im testing a few things out and displaying some messages. The public site is called 'publicwebsite.com'. But the other site im displaying all this information and proccess it is called 'mywebsite.com'
I have setup my API credentials and setup my IPN for paypal payment. To direct the IPN to my website i have gone into the 'My Selling Tools' on the sandbox side of Paypal, and set the IPN to http://mywebsite.com/test_pl.html
when i place and order, somehow the IPN is not being directed to the URL. I went to the IPN tabe again on the Paypal side, and clicked on history, and i see that the 'Notification URL' is still set to http://publicwebsite.com/WC_Gateway_Paypal, whereas it should have been http://mywebsite.com/test_pl.html.
I cannot seem to find the place where i can change the preferences such that Woocommerce pushes the information onto the site.
Please Help.
Thanks in advance
WooCommerce will set the IPN location of each transaction so that it can be notified when an item is paid for and continue its process.
Not knowing your data flow, I would suggest looking into woocommerce available hooks and hook into the IPN notification and then send the data (and user) to your perl script.
This way you satisfy WooCommerce's condition that it needs to know about payments, and you satisfy your need to have your perl script called so that it can do additional processing.
One possible solution is to update your IPN settings in your PayPal Account. If you have a standard PayPal account here are the instructions directly from PayPal Documentation:
Go to the PayPal website and log in to your account.
Click Profile at the top of the page.
Click My selling tools.
Click Update beside "Instant payment notifications" in the "Getting paid and managing risk" section.
Enter the notification URL and select "Receive IPN messages."
Click Save.
Just in case you need it below is the PayPal Instant Payment Notification Guide. It includes an IPN simulator.
PayPal Instant Payment Notification Integration Information
First of all , the test accounts I created were not working. So, I removed all Paypal cookies.So, now good thing I can login into test accounts but can't access My Settings and My Selling tools under My Profile. I'm trying to create Buy Now button in My Selling tools.
Also, My Paypal live account is for Paypal Payments Standard(My Business Setup->My payment solution) and in test account the payment solution is Paypal Payments Pro and doesn't let me change this option.The links in my business solution (View all products to learn more or select an additional payment solution or we can recommend one that fits your needs.) goes to PayPal live site.
Any one facing this crazy PayPal sandbox behavior !!!
When you say you can't access My Settings and My Selling tools under My Profile, are you getting an error or what is it doing specifically. The Pro account that you have in sandbox, will work for testing Website Payments Standard. Also, another option if you can't create test buttons from your sandbox account would be to log into your live account and create a non hosted / clear text button. Then you would just modify the button code, and change the URL in the form tag from the live site to the sandbox site. Also, you will need to change the value of the business variable and set it to either the email address of your test sandbox seller account or the merchant id. Another work around that has worked in the past as well, is going into your live account and going to the page you are wanting and copy the URL from the address bar and just modifing it to include the sandbox URL.
So if my live site URL was something like:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=
I would just change it to
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=
Also, if you can give me more details about what is happening when you try to access your profile in your sandbox account I can look into it further.