Paypal IPN - item name / item number

27 Feb 2008, 6:39 PM

New Zenner

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Paypal IPN - item name / item number

I didn't really know where to post this. It seems more IPN than upgrade related. IPN appears to be working great, but we discovered a problem last night under 1.3.7, and upgraded to 1.3.8 this morning. The upgrade has these same results. These fields:

[item_name] => ****** Store Purchase
[item_number] => Store Receipt

will always say the store name and store receipt. They do not state the item's name or product #. Paypal is now NOT allowing this, as they call it a non-valid "sku" or "product" in the fields, and the end result is that the transaction is not eligible for seller protection.

I've had to disable paypal at this point, but does anyone know of there is there a way to actually send the real item(s) and product id(s) with IPN? This would be great, as we can't afford the risk of not having seller protection on our transactions.

Thanks all!

28 Feb 2008, 6:24 AM

drbyte

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Re: Paypal IPN - item name / item number

You'll have to switch to Express Checkout if you want detailed-cart data to be sent.
The IPN module doesn't offer that at the present time.

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