PayPal can sometimes take a bit of time to notify the system of a completed payment – please make sure to turn on Instant Payment Notifications to reduce the change of this happening. Learn where to turn this on here.
After you turn on IPN
- PayPal IPN URL – Click the clipboard icon next to this URL to copy the IPN that needs to be entered into PayPal. The IPN is entered by going to PayPal.com > clicking Profile near the top right corner of the page > Profile and Settings > My selling tools > Getting paid and managing my risk section > and clicking the update option to the right of Instant payment notifications.
- Return URL – the Return URL is entered by going to PayPal.com > clicking Profile near the top right corner of the page > Profile and Settings > My selling tools > Selling online > and clicking the update option to the right of Website preferences. For the other settings on this page you’ll want to set “Payment Data Transfer” to ON, and you want to have the Encrypted Website Payments option set to OFF.
