Unfortunately, the IPN simulator doesn’t include recurring payments as you’ve shown. You’ll need to setup real profiles and test them in the sandbox, or you can setup your own simulator. Just make a basic HTML form with the action set to your IPN URL and then add hidden fields to the form with the names/values … Read more
The handshake error is most likely to occur when your server/keystore config is non-compliant with the upgraded PayPal SSL encryption algorithms. IPN simulator will connect againest the PayPal Sandbox environment, which has been upgraded with Versign G5 root cert / SHA-2 encryption algorithms (btw this is an industry standard as supposed to be everywhere in … Read more
Before developing, you should make yourself familiar with PayPal IPN and PDT concept. Read the documentation of IPN and PDT Variables. Here is the payment status possibilities from that document page: payment_status The status of the payment: Canceled_Reversal: A reversal has been canceled. For example, you won a dispute with the customer, and the funds … Read more
PayPal’s developer support and documentation is an embarrassment to them. But this particular limitation isn’t as debilitating as it seems at first blush. For testing, define your recurring payment to not have a free trial. When you create a new subscription, your server will receive two IPN messages in quick succession, one to create the … Read more
OK, to answer my own question as I’ve got to the bottom of this. First of all thanks to those who’ve provided answers and comments. So, in my particular case the problem turned out to be that my password was too simple. On the form, the hint next to the password field is ‘(8-20 characters)’. … Read more
A bit late in the game but just in case it helps anyone. If you are testing using the Sandbox and on the payment page you want to test payments NOT using a PayPal account but using the “Pay with Debit or Credit Card option” (i.e. when a regular Joe/Jane, NOT PayPal users, want to … Read more
In order to go live, you need to register your application with PayPal to obtain an application ID. When you submit your application to PayPal for review, the application is quickly scanned for the requests to PayPal operations. If no “advanced” operations are found, PayPal issues an AppID for the production servers at the time … Read more
The current PayPal for Business interface only provides a way to access IPN History if you have manually configured IPN in your PayPal account settings. In this case, you’d go to [your name] > Account Settings > Notifications > Instant Payment Notifications (click Update here), then the explanatory text there will include a link to … Read more
Iten_number hidden variable don’t work in my application. But i found that custom hidden field works fine. Just add this field to the form, generated by paypal: <input type=”hidden” name=”custom” value=”YOUR VALUE FROM DB”/>. After, you can read this value to identify, for example, what product have been purchased. (Java code): String custom = request.getParameter(“custom”);
PayPal returns data back to your site via what they call IPN. Its really just a callback to a URL you specify. You can set this URL via the variable notify_url you can send to PayPal. Example: <input name=”notify_url” value=”http://yourdomain.com/notify_url.php” type=”hidden”> The notify_url.php in the example above receives some POST variables from PayPal when the … Read more