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3 Sep 2025, 5:36 PM
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Duplicate orders on Paypal

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For some reason all of a sudden I am getting duplicate orders on paypal. Just fyi i am not getting duplicate transaction. What would cause this?

4 Sep 2025, 1:45 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

Just want to see if anyone else is having this issue. Going to dig a little deeper

4 Sep 2025, 9:49 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

chadlly2003:

Just want to see if anyone else is having this issue. Going to dig a little deeper

Double press on the confirm button? Have you done a test order?

4 Sep 2025, 10:32 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

2 orders and 2 payments or 2 orders but only 1 payment?
On the last scenario you can find topics with the search function.

4 Sep 2025, 5:10 PM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

for example someone check out i get 4 orders in zencart but 1 transaction in paypal. If that makes sense. Where did you find the documentation about this. I must have missed it

4 Sep 2025, 11:44 PM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

I think it might be a server issue. Seems like my checkout was lagging. Customer must have hit the submit button multiple times causing it to go through x amount of times

5 Sep 2025, 6:51 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

do you use the usual 3-way checkout?

I can't reproduce the double-click theory.

5 Sep 2025, 7:02 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

I had something similar a long while ago.
2 orders with different order id but only one payment.
In my case ~0,01% of the orders have been faulty.
Not perfect but not bad either.

Enter duplicate paypal orders into the search

5 Sep 2025, 10:51 AM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

Shop Suey:

I had something similar a long while ago.
2 orders with different order id but only one payment.
In my case ~0,01% of the orders have been faulty.
Not perfect but not bad either.

Enter duplicate paypal orders into the search

I can echo this. I used to use paypal express when I first started with zen cart and occasionally got multiple orders from one transaction.

I moved to square though because the rates are way better and as it turns out it works a lot better. In fact it has been flawless for a number of years.

5 Sep 2025, 2:10 PM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

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...
I moved to square though because the rates are way better and as it turns out it works a lot better. In fact it has been flawless for a number of years.

:thumbsup:

5 Sep 2025, 2:14 PM
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Re: Duplicate orders on Paypal

thank you not carl for offtopic