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Solved: Paypal Orders not always showing up in zencart

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19 Aug 2009, 11:16 PM
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Solved: Paypal Orders not always showing up in zencart

This has already been addressed on this forum but I wanted it to have its own thread.

I'm using 1.3.8a and around the 1st of August about half of the paypal orders never showed up in zencart. The customer paid but an order was never generated. I solved the problem by updating my information in paypal to 'https' instead of 'http'.

Basically, follow the instructions in the zencart Paypal IPN module:
(At some point in the last few zencart versions, these instructions have changed)

Configuration Instructions:
2. In your PayPal account, under "Profile",

* set your Instant Payment Notification Preferences URL to:
  **<https://www.yoursite.com/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!
* in Website Payments Preferences set your Automatic Return URL to:
  **<https://www.yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=checkout_process>**

Once you have made this change, test it thoroughly.

Hope this saves someone some headache!

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19 Aug 2009, 11:51 PM
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Re: Solved: Paypal Orders not always showing up in zencart

The URL needs to match whatever is valid for your website. And using SSL is recommended as long as you have it enabled on your site.

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