in your Instant Payment Notification Preferences

this would have you only accept payments from just 1 estore
what if you had more estores ?

it could be done dynamically

I am not an expert but I know it could be done (I am currently accepting payments for an store of mine that has IPN integrated without me having activated from within the paypal account)

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giorgosk’s picture

giorgosk
Location Chios, Greece 🇬🇷
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I think this should be helpful
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/pdt-code-outside

the method is called payment data transder I think

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giorgosk
Location Chios, Greece 🇬🇷
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Component: Code » Documentation

Sorry my bad, its already implemented in the code

but, what you say in the help/lm_paypal: "YOU HAVE TO go and activate IPN notification" is not true

as a matter of fact I think it could create trouble

if you try to enable it without giving a URL then it tells you
"You must enter a properly formatted URL into the Notification URL field in order to activate Instant Payment Notification."
if you give URL there it could mean trouble (if you are handling other paypal transactions from other accounts).f

I am actually running another paypal account without having the IPN notifications enabled and on my developers.paypal sandbox account I had it disabled while testing lm_paypal.

hope someone else can confirm this since I am not an expert on paypal

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LeeMcL commented
Title: You don't need to activate IPN from within your PAYPAL account » PayPal IPN Activation
Assigned: Unassigned » LeeMcL

I'll update the documentation. However setting up IPN doesn't cause problems (is gets over ridden by the LM PayPal module).

Although in general you don't need to setup your PayPal account for IPN (but I'll need to check this out more carefully) there is one case where it is quite useful. Some people seem reluctant to use a sites buttons to make donations and prefer to do it directly via PayPal. If IPN isn't setup then the site won't be notified when the donation occurs. Of course you can only setup one site to get these directly generated IPN's but that is still how a lot of smaller sites will operate.

Lee

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john franklin commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Closing all 5.x and earlier issues. If this is still an issue, please reopen and update with 6.x or 7.x details.