PayPal IPN Repost
PayPal IPN Repost is a page in the Admin Area that allows a store owner to repost an IPN that failed to validate during the normal process.
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Background information
When a customer places an order at PayPal, an IPN is sent to a NeuCart store, allowing an order to be created. Sometimes the IPN validation process fails, even though payment was completed, and thus this tool became necessary as a way to give store owners a way to create the order manually.
Email message
When the IPN Validation fails, the store owner receives an email with the subject IPN VALIDATION ERROR. The text of the email is something like this:
================= IPN POST Handler: IPN Request Failed. IPN Validation failed. If you're sure this is a valid transaction (if you have received the funds in your PayPal account), you can complete the order-creation process by copying the text from the next section into the PayPal IPN Repost page of your NeuCart configuration portal. This will create the order, sending appropriate email notifications to you and the customer. ================= mc_gross|12.99 tax|0.00 payment_date|00:05:17 Sep 29, 2014 PDT payment_status|Completed charset|windows-1252 mc_shipping|0.00 mc_handling|0.00 first_name|John last_name|Doe mc_fee|0.68 notify_version|3.8 ================= Raw request: cmd=_notify-validate&etc&etc
Using the PayPal IPN Repost tool
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The IPN Repost page is simple to use. Like the email message says, just copy the section of the email (in the example above, everything from the "mc_gross" line to "notify_version") and paste it into the IPN Repost text box, and then click [Perform IPN Repost]. Once the "completed" message displays, you should see a new order in your Manage Orders page.
See also
| PayPal |
API
• Auto-Return
• Encryption
• IPN
• IPN Repost
• PayPal
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