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 Variable Reference
Recurring Payments Variables
outstanding_balance Outstanding balance for recurring payments
payment_cycle Payment cycle for recurring payments
period_type Kind of period for a recurring payment
product_name Product name associated with a recurring payment
product_type Product name associated with a recurring payment
profile_status Profile status for a recurring payment
recurring_payment_id Recurring payment ID
rp_invoice_id The merchant’s own unique reference or invoice number, which can be
used to uniquely identify a profile.
Length: 127 single-byte alphanumeric characters
time_created When a recurrng payment was created
Variable Name Description