User Guide

IPN Operations on PayPal
Using the IPN History
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z Whether this IPN message was the original message or whether it was resent, which is
indicated by the asterisk (*) in the Date/time created column
z The IPN message ID assigned by PayPal
z The current status, which is one of the following values:
Sent indicates that PayPal sent the message to your IPN listener
Failed indicates that PayPal did not receive an acknowledgement to the message
Queued indicates that PayPal is ready to send the message
Retrying indicates that message was resent between 1 and 15 times and PayPal
continues to be resend the message
Disabled indicates that the message will not be resent because the merchant’s account
has been disabled
NOTE: If you have requested that PayPal resend the IPN message and the status has not
been updated for the attempt, resending is appended to the status, e.g. Failed
- resending.
z Your servers response to the HTTP POST that delivered the IPN message to your listener.
For more information about these codes, see
RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol --
HTTP/1.1.
z If the message is related to a PayPal transaction, the ID of the PayPal transaction associated
with the message; you can
To see more information about an IPN message, click on the message ID. The IPN details page
appears: