My PayPal IPN echeck orders not completing

[mydanilo]

OK, forget my last two postings. It does not work to activate without return path.

I am confused, in zen admin payment paypal ipn it states:

Configuration Instructions:
1. Sign up for your PayPal account - click here.
2. In your PayPal account, under "Profile",

* set your Instant Payment Notification Preferences URL to:
https://www.xxxxxxcandlestore/ipn_main_handler.php
(If another URL is already used, you may leave it alone.)
Be sure that the Checkbox to enable IPN is checked!


(If another URL is already used, you may leave it alone.) What does this mean then! I did have the return path set to my store 1. How will this ever work for my second store?

[DrByte]

BTW I noticed that I had the Instant Payment Notification Preferences ON. I use this PayPal account with two different websites and I realized that the return path was set to the other site! I guess this does not help ether.... I turned it off for now.

Zen Cart overrides whatever URL you enter there, and thus can share with multiple sites.

Otherwise I can't have tow carts using this account.

See above.

So I will set IPN back on and do not specify a return path...

I doubt PayPal will let you leave the URL blank.

[DrByte]

OK, I just got another echeck paypal payment. No order in my cart. I see the payment in my paypal account. I have the debug files.

Your debug logs suggest that your webserver has a configuration problem:

Nov 20 2007 14:10 -- IPN FATAL ERROR :: Could not establish fsockopen. 
Host Details = www.paypal.com:80 (105) No buffer space available

[mydanilo]

Your debug logs suggest that your webserver has a configuration problem:

Nov 20 2007 14:10 -- IPN FATAL ERROR :: Could not establish fsockopen. 
Host Details = www.paypal.com:80 (105) No buffer space available

Can you give me a bit more of an idea what I should tell my hosting provider? What needs to be configured right?

I use a Zen recommended host.

[mydanilo]

I invited my hosting provider to this thread. Hope I can get this resolved soon.

[knuckle-101]

Your missing the PDT Token

PDT Token (Payment Data Transfer)
Enter your PDT Token value here in order to activate transactions immediately after processing (if they pass validation).

Go to paypal and get your token and add it this will work.

[mydanilo]

Ok I found out how to get a token:

Activating PDT

To use PDT, you must activate PDT and Auto Return in your PayPal account profile. You must also acquire a PDT identity token, which is used in all PDT communication you send to PayPal.

Follow these steps to configure your account for PDT:

1. Log in to your PayPal account.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
3. Click Website Payment Preferences in the Seller Preferences column.
4. Under Auto Return for Website Payments, click the On radio button.
5. For the Return URL, enter the URL on your site that will receive the transaction ID posted by PayPal after a customer payment.
6. Under Payment Data Transfer, click the On radio button.
7. Click Save.
8. Click Website Payment Preferences in the Seller Preferences column.
9. Scroll down to the Payment Data Transfer section of the page to view your PDT identity token.


Remaining Questions:
Will this token work for both sites that I use this paypal account for?
How can I recover the order that was placed and payed with paypal echeck? I see the payment in paypal but no order in Zen. Any chance of recovering the order? Don't know what to ship!

Thank you for all the help so far...

[knuckle-101]

Glad to hear you got it working

[mydanilo]

Well yes, the token part is all set. Still don't know below:

Remaining Questions:
Will this token work for both sites that I use this paypal account for?
How can I recover the order that was placed and payed with paypal echeck? I see the payment in paypal but no order in Zen. Any chance of recovering the order? Don't know what to ship!

Thank you for all the help so far...

[knuckle-101]

The token will work for both sites.

But for your order there is no way to recover it