Questions tagged [paypal-pdt]

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IPN vs PDT in Paypal

I'm having some trouble choosing between PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and Payment Data Transfer (PDT). Basically, users buy a one-off product on my site, pay on PayPal, and return to my site. I understand how IPN works but I'm now…
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PayPal Event Notification, type: "Withdraw Funds to Bank Account" (Does it exist?)

I am trying to handle transactions generated from PayPal bank withdrawals. Bank withdrawals occur when the system (via automatic transfers) or the user transfers funds from the PayPal Account to a connected bank account. This creates the…
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Paypal PDT transaction ID expiration period

I got error 4003 from paypal PDT when I was trying to retrieve payment information using the transaction ID. Although I there's a similar thread here : Paypal PDT error 4003 and I believe the answer is because of my transaction ID has expired.…
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Does PayPal Donate support Payment Data Transfer?

I'm setting up a PayPal Donate button with a personal account. I cannot find a way to setup Payment Data Transfer for Return URL with the PayPal Donate button. It worked a year ago (2018), but it seems to have been discontinued.
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PayPal PDT stopped returning to my website

I've been using PayPal Website Payments Standard for many years - I use both IPN and PDT. Recently I discovered that although IPN is still working fine, the customer is no longer returned to my website at the end of a purchase, so the PDT is not…
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PayPal PDT not returning Custom Message url parameter "cm" properly

I have multiple websites that use PayPal Buy Now buttons and have PDT enabled. All of the existing customer websites are working, in that after the user makes a purchase, they are redirected back to their site by PayPal with a return URL that…
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ColdFusion (CFML) Losing Session Variables ONLY on Mobile devices with Paypal API

OK I seem to be losing session variables when the buyer returns from Paypal for the PDT payment. This does not happen with any normal browser. My question is how can I send over the session information to Paypal and have them return it when they…
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Paypal PDT doesn't return "custom" value anymore (regression?)

We use PDT's cmd=_notify-synch API to validate transactions when the customer is redirect back to our website after a payment. We pass a "custom" value in our Paypal buttons with a customer id, and we expect to get this value back. This worked fine…
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PayPal PDT works in sandbox but not live

I am trying to add a Paypal Payments button onto our website. I have Auto Return and Payment Data Transfer turned on. When I point to sandbox, everything works correctly and it returns to my website with the transaction id in the url. When I point…
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Paypal PDT does not return transaction for subscription with free trial

I'm working with Paypal PDT, everything is working very good, Paypal will return transaction details for any payment with charged amount; but does not return for subscription with free trial period I need to secure the payment by referrer identify,…
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Why does PayPal PDT return all variables in Return URL query string instead of just transaction id?

I have a PayPal subscribe button which is working with ReturnURL and PDT enabled. This button is being used on an aspx page in ASP.Net. The problem is that once the transaction on paypal completes all PDT variables are being returned as query string…
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PAYPAL IPN Listner

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get this to work for over a week. I have even purchased an SSL cert for the domain. I keep getting the error: [2016-03-14 18:07 Europe/London] Can not connect to PayPal to validate IPN message: SSL connect…
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nopCommerce paypal PDTHandler

I have successfully deployed nopCommerce to azure using a shared hosting plan. All was going ok until I came to attempting to test the paypal payments integration using sandbox I have connected up my site to paypal using a test seller account, and a…
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paypal pdt status all time 0

Sorry, maybe there is more posts on this argument but I really can't solve my problem!! Maybe I've some logical issue too ... Can some one help me to figure out the right workflow? I'm having a headache trying to configure my website with…
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Paypal PDT - SSL connect error

I use this code to process Paypal payment data transfer (PDT): $url = 'https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr'; $tx_token = $_GET['tx']; $auth_token = "my_token"; $fields = array( 'cmd' => '_notify-synch', 'tx' => $tx_token, 'at'…
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