2012
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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IPN Operations on PayPal
Using the IPN History
– 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.
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.
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: