Instant Payment Notification (IPN) allows you to integrate your PayPal payments with your website’s back-end operations, so you get immediate notification and authentication of the PayPal payments you receive.
Video Tutorial on PayPal IPN Setup
Written Instruction
Do the following to enable IPN in your PayPal account:
- Log into your PayPal account.
- Click on the “cog” icon in the right hand corner and then on “Account Settings“.
- Under “Solutions and Services” click on “Website Payments“.
- Look for an option labelled “Instant Payment Notification“. Click on the update button for that option.
- Click “Choose IPN Settings“.
- Enter the URL of your website and hit “Save“.
Resend PayPal IPN Message
Read the how to resend PayPal IPN message tutorial.
PayPal Beginner Video Tutorials
The PayPal beginner video tutorials is a good resource to check if you are new to PayPal as a merchant.
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@Richard, PDT and IPN are two different features of PayPal. PDT is used verify the payment and show the download links on the “Thank You” page. IPN is used for background posting and to send the sale notification email.
Your PDT is working fine. You have an issue with the IPN feature which needs to be investigated. There is likely a plugin security/firewall type on your site that is blocking the IPN message sent by PayPal. If the IPN message is blocked then it will never reach the e-commerce plugin and hence the plugin will fail to process the payment and send sale notification emails.
When I use The PDT option with token in Estore they land on the thasnkyou page with the link shown but do not recieve email… my debug log file says IPN failure… when i set IPN up in paypal and turn auto return and PDT off in paypal and remove the token from the Estore theres no link on thank you page and no email. my email verifys that paypal recieved the funds but estore emails a failure.. any ideas what is going on?