wizardsandwars

Not to speak for Pablo, but I use his IPN contri., and have processed around 30 or so transactions with it. I have also received various payments through ebay using paypal, and none of them have shown up in or hampered OSC in any way. As I have said before, I HIGHLY recommend this contrib if you want to use paypal.

That's a pretty good point. I've been manually deleting the 'paypal processing' status orders manually. It would be nice if the program could delete orders that didnt get notified by IPN and updated to 'Processed' Could we spinn off a process in the background that slept for a few minutes, and then checked the status of the orders, and if it is still 'paypal processing' (meaning that IPN did not send a response) then that order would be deleted?

Hell yeah!! I'm down with that, fo' sho'.

Jason, Yeah, I found that many people were turned off by paypal too. We just set up an account with 2checkout, so now we offer both, and nearly doubled our orders per day. I'd like to get a merchant account too, but it'll cost about $49 for a shared cert, another $200 for the merchant account AND THEN 2.2% plus .35 per. That's a bit steep for a startup. Hopefully by this time next year, I'll be set up with one as well. Until then, I'll just gut it out with 2checkout and PayPal.

Joe, Thanks. I'll be looking for your at Christmas time :wink: . That is very interesting re: the email address. I didn't even think to try what PayPal didn't have documented. God I hate paypal. The only reason I use them is because they are BY FAR the cheapest CC Processing solution out there. Especially if you use Their depit card to make your store's purchases. You can get up to 1.5 pecent back from the processing fees. I really like 2checkout, with their modifiable checkout page and all, but they are SOOOO expensive. I pay a buck extra a transaction, plus the $50 upfront. Gotta give the customers a choice, though I guess.

Joej PayPal does not allow you to pass them the email address. The customer HAS to enter it again at the PayPal site. There is one other field they won't accept either, but I can't remember what it is.

BTW, For anyone who wishes to checkout the paypal IPN module on my site with a completed purchase with or without hitting the continue button :wink: at (www.wizardsandwars.com) email me directly, and I can set up a "special" so that the total including shipping will be $.01. Also, I would appreciate any feedback regarding anything on my site (especially anything search engine related).

Pablo, In case no one has told you yet, you're the man!

Paul_C, I'm using Pablo's PayPal IPN contribution now. I think it's OUTSTANDING. I find that over 50% of the paypal users forget to click that damn continue button, and adding orders to the db manually is a real chafe. So far, it's worked great for me, processing a dozen or so orders in 2 days. I also worked with Pablo to include the "pre-fill" paypals text boxes that the customers already provided. I'd highly recomend it.