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PayPal Express Checkout sends the customer to PayPal for the checkout process, including obtaining address info, shipping rates, and payment information.
Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
PayPal's Instant Payment Notification allows you to integrate PayPal payments with Squirrelcart's order management feature. IPN provides immediate notification and confirmation of PayPal payments you receive, and allows Squirrelcart to update the payment status on orders in your database. If you activate IPN, you will receive an IPN when a payment is first received, which will display the status of the payment (Completed or Pending). If the payment status was Pending, you will receive another IPN when the payment clears, fails, or is denied. IPN requires CURL and OpenSSL.
You will need to be signed up for PayPal Express Checkout before enabling this feature.
To ensure that IPN is working, we've added a testing feature. It is designed to send an email to your PayPal email address whenever your website receives an IPN from PayPal. The email will contain all the data that was sent to your site. To enable this test feature, follow these instructions.
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