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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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Revision History
Revision history for PayPal Instant Payment Notification Guide.
Date Published Description
07/10/12 Maintenance release.
05/22/12 Maintenance release.
05/02/12 Maintenance release.
04/03/12 Updated references to Website Payments Standard and Website Payments Pro to
PayPal Payments Standard and PayPal Payments Pro, respectively.
02/14/12 Maintenance release.
07/26/11 Added additional IPN variables and transaction types; echeck_time_processed
is new for revision 78.0.
07/17/10 Updated information about IPN messages for Adaptive Payments and added
information for Adaptive Accounts.
04/01/10 Updated IPN history and resend information and added information about IPN
messages for Adaptive Payments.
06/26/09 Added information about IPN messages related to payment review. Updated the
section about setting up IPN notifications on PayPal and added a note about the
delivery of IPN messages to the notify URL.
06/10/09 Added IPN history and resend information and added information to the
troubleshooting section.
03/16/09 Made additions to sample code.
02/16/09 First draft.