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Table Of Contents
- Instant Payment Notification Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing IPN
- Implementing an IPN Listener
- Identifying Your IPN Listener to PayPal
- IPN Testing
- IPN Operations on PayPal
- Using Fraud Management Filters With IPN
- IPN Variable Reference
- IPN Transaction Types
- Transaction and Notification-Related Variables
- Buyer Information Variables
- Payment Information Variables
- Auction Variables
- Mass Pay Variables
- Recurring Payments Variables
- Subscription Variables
- Dispute Resolution Variables
- Pay Message Variables
- Preapproval Message Variables
- Adaptive Accounts IPN Messages
- Payment Review Using Notifications
- Revision History
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Implementing an IPN Listener
You write your IPN listener in the scripting or programming language of your choice and host
it on your web server. You can use sample code provided by PayPal as a starting point.
The PayPal SDKs for PayPal Payments Standard contain sample code in various programming
languages that you can modify to create your own listener. As a good programming practice,
as well as to keep things simple, your IPN listener should listen for a post from PayPal and
dispatch it immediately to another routine or process that handles the business logic associated
with the message. If your listener is structured in this way, it will be a simple and tight loop
that listens for a message and dispatches it for processing by your application logic.
For a list of code samples for IPN, refer to the following link:
Code Samples - Instant Payment Notification