PayPal/IPN

Overview

Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is one of two methods by which a web site may retrieve payment information, in real time (i.e. immediately after the payment is completed), resulting from a transaction conducted on PayPal's web site. The other method is Payment Data Transfer (PDT).

IPN is somewhat more reliable than PDT in that PayPal's server contacts the merchant's server directly to transmit transaction data as soon as the transaction has occurred, rather than depending on the customer's browser to convey the data.

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Links

• Order Integration: IPN
  • sample code