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I’m using Safecracker where users fill out a form and then pay a single payment via a Paypal button using basic form.

At the moment I manually mark a custom field called ‘paid’ in the channel entry to yes.

Is there a way to use Paypal’s IPN to write directly into a channel entry?

I just had a look at Simple Commerce and it should do the trick.

Problem now is I can’t see any purchases being logged, there’s also no IPN history in Paypal (sandbox).

Can you confirm that http://www.site.com/?ACT=46 is correct IPN URL?

thanks

I did something similar a few months back…but I’m using the following:

<input type=“hidden” value=”{site_url}/?ACT=20” name=“notify_url”/>

...so you might want to check what /?ACT=46 is.

Also I had problems with sandbox so had to test with live PP payments in the end, which *did* work.

Hi Dan -

did you use Simples Commerce? I can’t seem to edit the URL with ACT=46.

I tried as hidden field didn’t work either.

I did use the SCM, yes.

I created a manual PayPal form in my template rather than relying on the auto-generated code from SCM (which didn’t work the way I needed it too).

Do you remember which Paypal variable passed the entry_id back to CMS ? is it item_number

Pretty sure I had to use a tonne of PHP & custom queries to match up purchased items with channel entries.  It wasn’t easy, that I do remember.

Querying the purchases + channels I can handle, I’m looking forward to it, it’s getting Paypal to talk to my server is the struggle, seeing that there’s no IPN history seems to suggest so.

Hello Sam,

How are things going? Did you get this to work for you? It looks like DanL was able to give you some direction.

Cheers,

Hi,

Yes thanks, I got IPN working and can see purchases ok - I missed out the debug = TRUE for sandbox testing.

Trouble now is I can’t set my own amount to send to Paypal in the template, I have to use SCM’s item regular or sale price.

Hey Dan, did you override them?

I would like this to happen:

{exp:simple_commerce:purchase entry_id="1096" success="site/success" cancel="site/index"}

Do not use SCM price: {item_regular_price}
       
Use my price: <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="123.00" /> 

<input type="submit" class="button"/>

{/exp:simple_commerce:purchase}