User Guide
Table Of Contents
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 server’s 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: