Paypal IPN setting

Hello everybody,

Could you please let me know what URL should be entered into the 'Notification URL' field in a PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) section of the website?

While I was using another email address attached to my friend's PayPal account everything was working fine. Now I have got my on account with PayPal. I have enabled the IPN service on PayPal website using the www.mywebsite.com as a url <- a dummy link just for the example purposes. May be the url is wrong or I should leave that field empty?

Please advice.

The IPN URL for PayPal in HikaShop is:

www.mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_h...pl=component&lang=en

or www.mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_h...pl=component&lang=en when you don't have SSL.

Thank you, I will try

[update]
Works like a charm!

Excuse my ignorance, but what I put where the ..... is in addresss: www.mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_h...omponent&lang=en to get get the check out to go to Paypal?

Thanks

Here is the full URL
- for SSL enabled web site

and
- for NON SSL web site

Just replace with your domain name.

Thanks for prompt reply. I will fix it.

Well I thought I did.

1/ I did a paypal test and got a 403 error":-


403 - Access Forbidden!

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
a mistyped address
you have no access to this page
The requested resource was not found.
An error has occurred while processing your request.

Please try one of the following pages:

Home Page

If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site.

Access Forbidden!



And an email:-

Hello,
A Paypal notification was refused because the IP 124.181.29.7 is not in the list of valid IPs :
64.4.241.*
66.211.169.*
66.211.170.*
216.113.191.*

Check the documentation concerning this issue at www.hikashop.com/index.php?option=com_do...ment-paypal-error#ip
This notification was for the order B3S9 on the website www.alnaturalhealth.com/ You can access the order details directly by clicking on the link below after logging in your back end:
www.alnaturalhealth.com/administrator/in...ask=edit&order_id=39

I checked the documentaion and I'm not sure about what to do.

I think the IP address is my own. Isn't it supposed to be one of Paypal's. I am a bit foggy on how it works. Anyway how do I solve it. Do I just add the IP address to the list. What happens when a order comes from another computer?

2/ What is the return url to Hilka shop that I put into my paypal merchant setting?

1. I suppose that you didn't put that URL in the good place. You should not put it in the return URL option. PayPal will call it automatically without you doing anything. If you put it in the return URL option, paypal will redirect you to that URL and you will get the error because you're not paypal.

2. You can put whatever URL you want. It could be a product listing on your website. It could be an article which thanks the user for his purchase, etc...

I put the url in the url spot as shown in this screenshoot.



Thank you for your help.

I found the url www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr > from the Paypal website and put it in the url spot and it is taking me to paypal. This seems to be the orginal url that is in there by default. I had worked when I orginally set it up and then I had a customer that who said it didn't take them to paypal, just the thank you page, so I tried it again and when I got the same results. It is like the url got messed up some how. Seems strange. Anyway it is working now.

Hi,

What should be the IPN url for PayPal Pro? Thank you.

There is no IPN for PayPal Pro.
Payments are made with a server-to-server connection so HikaShop directly knows if the payment is ok or not. There is no need for PayPal to notify HikaShop.

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for that. But how will Hikashop know and update an order status if for example I make a refund through PayPal?

Hi,

HikaShop never change the status of orders outside standard payment validations.
For all the other status (refund, payment holding, partial refund, etc), you have to do it manually as these are exceptional events that you don't want to handle automatically.

Besides, the NVP API of PayPal Pro is not able to track payments status.

Thanks for that! It really helps to understand and make a right choice of payment methods.

Sorry, would order status get updated automatically for refunds, payment holding, partial refunds, etc. if I was to use the standard PayPal plugin? Because as I understand the standard PayPal uses IPN.

No, it won't. These events have to be handled manually.