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Send Paypal Recurring Payments commands with IPN Simulator

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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

IPN was not sent, and the handshake was not verified. Please review your information.

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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

PayPal SOAP and NVP

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I would recommend using the NVP (Name-value pair, basically POST with data) API over the SOAP API. NVP should be significantly lighter weight than SOAP. There are a few questions already on SO that complain about SOAP. I just was trying to figure out which to use and came upon those. Hope that helps. Also, … Read more

Paying for multiple items (at once) via paypal

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See this sample and make the changes to yours accordingly. Basically add underscore to item name before number and give unique name to amount also with underscore and number. You have to give amount to each item based on your carts totals. <form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”> <input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_cart”> <input type=”hidden” name=”upload” value=”1″> <input type=”hidden” … Read more

Possible payment status values

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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