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Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-09T11:00:10-05:00

Excellent! Thanks Jason.

Oddly enough, that was really simple. The instructions to get it to work are much more confusing then the actual solution. That's probably just me.

Statistics: Posted by Peanut — January 9th, 2012, 11:00 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-09T04:29:34-05:00

Thanks for the follow-up.

Peanut wrote:
I'm a bit of a dope and having trouble figuring out how to set this up on two different sites.

I set up s2 on a website and followed all the instructions for setting up paypal. now i have a different site and all the data in paypal of course matches my first site.

i have no idea on how to make this work correctly for the second site. anybody have "second site s2member and paypal setup for beyond dummies"?

Are you running PayPal Buttons, or s2Member Pro Forms with PayPal Pro? If you're running PayPal Standard Buttons, there is nothing you need to do, other than just telling s2Member what your PDT Identity Token is. The IPN URL and PDT Return-URL are set dynamically by s2Member for each PayPal Button, and this works fine, even if you have other sites that operate from the same PayPal account.

You just need to make sure you complete these steps.

1. You MUST enable PayPal's IPN service inside your PayPal account.
With PayPal Standard Buttons, it doesn't really matter what the default IPN URL is inside your PayPal account, you just need to have IPN service enabled in your PayPal Profile. s2Member will set the correct IPN URL dynamically, for each PayPal Button, overriding whatever default value you have in your PayPal account. For further instructions, please check your Dashboard, under:
s2Member -> PayPal Options -> IPN Integration.

2. Enable Auto-Return and Payment Data Transfer (PDT) in your PayPal account, following the instructions provided in your Dashboard here: s2Member -> PayPal Options -> PDT Integration. Again, it doesn't matter what the default Auto-Return URL is inside your PayPal account, you just need to make sure Auto-Return and PDT are enabled in your PayPal account. s2Member will set the correct PDT Auto-Return URL for each PayPal Button, overriding whatever default value exists in your PayPal account.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — January 9th, 2012, 4:29 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-06T15:04:31-05:00

Is there a paid answer option here? I'll gladly pay for the correct answer that I understand and can follow to completion on this issue.

Statistics: Posted by Peanut — January 6th, 2012, 3:04 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-06T08:56:06-05:00

Is this thing on?

Statistics: Posted by Peanut — January 6th, 2012, 8:56 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-05T19:13:24-05:00

Well, I guess the next question is, is this even possible?

Statistics: Posted by Peanut — January 5th, 2012, 7:13 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2012-01-05T10:43:13-05:00

I'm a bit of a dope and having trouble figuring out how to set this up on two different sites.

I set up s2 on a website and followed all the instructions for setting up paypal. now i have a different site and all the data in paypal of course matches my first site.

i have no idea on how to make this work correctly for the second site. anybody have "second site s2member and paypal setup for beyond dummies"?

Statistics: Posted by Peanut — January 5th, 2012, 10:43 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-20T10:06:39-05:00

primary email address , you mean ?

yk

Statistics: Posted by member99 — December 20th, 2011, 10:06 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-20T05:09:17-05:00

At PayPal it'll show your PayPal email, if I'm not mistaken.

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — December 20th, 2011, 5:09 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-19T13:06:29-05:00

hello,

just have a thought. on the last check out page at paypal. will it use my primary email address for customer contact or my email address to login ? for primary email address, i can change it but for paypal login i can't , can i ?

yk

Statistics: Posted by member99 — December 19th, 2011, 1:06 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-19T09:52:37-05:00

ah , thanks

yk

Statistics: Posted by member99 — December 19th, 2011, 9:52 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-19T04:36:11-05:00

Your business PayPal email will remain the same, it's the one shared between the sites. The IPN and PDT info is set dynamically by s2Member for each site based on the info you entered in your PayPal Options. WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Options

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — December 19th, 2011, 4:36 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-18T15:37:53-05:00

hello,

i am a new user. just need help on the multi site configuaration for 1 paypal accounts. i am not entirely sure. suppose i have 2 different sites selling 2 products. if people purchase 1 product from my second site (not my first site i installed s2 member) . so if i enable IPN settings in my paypal account , if sale occurs, s2 member will automatically create a correct email reply message with the right email address , not the email address i use for my first site, am i right ? i don't want people receive confirmation email reply from a completely different site name, do i ? a question is that will s2 member use the default paypal login email address for all my sites or it use the email setting in s2 member? please clarify my confusion . thanks

yk

Statistics: Posted by member99 — December 18th, 2011, 3:37 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-04T00:02:39-05:00

Thanks very much, Jason!

Statistics: Posted by weseoin — December 4th, 2011, 12:02 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-03T05:45:50-05:00

Thanks for your inquiry, and for the KUDOS! ~ Much appreciated.

I don't think you'll have any trouble with this at all.
You'll find this information is available in your Dashboard as you configure s2Member.

*Quick Tip* In addition to the default IPN settings inside your PayPal® account, the IPN URL is also set on a per-transaction basis by the special PayPal® Button Code that s2Member provides you with. In other words, if you have multiple sites operating on one PayPal® account, that's OK. s2Member dynamically sets the IPN URL for each transaction. The result is that the IPN URL configured from within your PayPal® account, becomes the default, which is then overwritten on a per-transaction basis. In fact, PayPal® recently updated their system to support IPN URL preservation. One PayPal® account can handle multiple sites, all using different IPN URLs.

*Quick Tip* In addition to the default Auto-Return/PDT configuration inside your PayPal® account, the Auto-Return URL is also set on a per-transaction basis from within the special PayPal® Button Code that s2Member provides you with. In other words, if you have multiple sites operating on one PayPal® account, that's OK. s2Member dynamically sets the Auto-Return URL for each transaction. The result is that the Auto-Return URL configured from within your PayPal® account, becomes the default, which is then overwritten on a per-transaction basis.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — December 3rd, 2011, 5:45 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-12-03T03:05:53-05:00

Jason Caldwell wrote:
However, Auto-Return/PDT could cause a conflict. That being said, Auto-Return/PDT is NOT required to use s2Member. It's recommended, but not required. So you could just leave that off and setup your IPN URL to the one provided by s2Member. You should be good then, even without another account.

First of all, hi to Jason and all forum members! I'm a new entrant, and let me be honest in saying that from my limited experience of using various membership software I find s2member really fantastic!

I've a query, Jason. I have IPN, PDT, and Auto-Return enabled in one of my sites where I use DAP. Now in another website I'm trying out s2member...and I wish to know if I can proceed with button-level notify_URL settings or perhaps something else for the same PayPal account in the new website with s2member w/o altering the present settings at PayPal..!

Hope I could put my question clearly!

Thanks in advance.

Statistics: Posted by weseoin — December 3rd, 2011, 3:05 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-10-01T22:33:40-05:00

michealsavoie wrote:
My client has an API certificate and not an API signature. What is the difference and what can be done to use the certificate instead of the signature?

Micheal

Sorry, s2Member uses PayPal's NVP API, and we use the recommended API Signature, not an API Certificate. The last time I spoke with PayPal about this, they were unable to have one account with both an API Signature and also an API Certificate ( I know, weird ). Anyway, I was told they would be working to make this possible. You might check with PayPal support to see if they can swing this on your account.

Reference article: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd= ... PAPIBasics

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — October 1st, 2011, 10:33 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-29T14:57:16-05:00

My client was told he would have to open another account (for $30 per month) if he needed to use a paypal signature instead of his paypal certificate which he is already using on another site. They told him that the IPN would not be a problem, as long as the URL would ignore any IPN coming from sales on the other site.

But can we use the certificate instead of the paypal signature?

Statistics: Posted by michealsavoie — September 29th, 2011, 2:57 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-14T00:51:47-05:00

Sure thing. Let us know what you come up with. Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — September 14th, 2011, 12:51 am

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-13T21:48:03-05:00

Jason, I am hearing you, but the PayPal rep, like I've said several times told me NOT to enter a URL in the IPN or it would conflict with the PDT. I know they are different, but that's what this person said. I am going to call to talk to someone else and hopefully we get this madness clarified. If not, I also check what Checker said about another account, which she also said it could not be done. Maybe that rep had a bad hair day. (LOL). I'll let you know. BUt thanks again. MM

Statistics: Posted by mariamar — September 13th, 2011, 9:48 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-13T14:56:17-05:00

Thanks for the follow-up.
Just to clarify, IPN and PDT are two completely different services. Enabling IPN and entering the s2Member URL will not create any conflict with PDT, because Auto-Return/PDT is a completely separate service, and is in no way affected by your IPN configuration. IPN communication occurs behind-the-scene, and PDT works to transmit data immediately after checkout. If your current cart-system is NOT even using IPN communication, then enabling it now won't create any conflict for you. If your current cart-system IS using IPN communication, then you WOULD have an issue; and you would need a central IPN processing script, provided by s2Member Pro (s2m-pro-extras.zip), but that's not needed in your case, as I see it.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — September 13th, 2011, 2:56 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-12T18:48:31-05:00

Hi, Jason,
What the PayPal rep said was that if I enable IPN (and place the membership URL there, for example) this URL would clash with the PDT, which has the URL of my shopping cart. Since I HAVE to put a URL to use IPN, then I cannot enable IPN. In other words, I cannot enable IPN and leave the URL entry blank, so that I can use it with the membership. I'll check all of this tomorrow for confirmation. Thanks.

Statistics: Posted by mariamar — September 12th, 2011, 6:48 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-12T18:09:57-05:00

Thanks for the follow-up.

Well, if your current PayPal account did NOT have IPN enabled at all, then turning it on and setting it to any valid URL should not cause a conflict to occur, because your existing cart is obviously not using it?

However, Auto-Return/PDT could cause a conflict. That being said, Auto-Return/PDT is NOT required to use s2Member. It's recommended, but not required. So you could just leave that off and setup your IPN URL to the one provided by s2Member. You should be good then, even without another account.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — September 12th, 2011, 6:09 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-12T18:01:50-05:00

Hi, Jason and Checkers,

I'm in my PayPal and reading the instructions. I tried to enable IPN without enterign a URL, but it's not possible. I would have to enter a URL, and this is what the PayPal representative told me that would clash with my PDT-autoreturn, set to the shoppingcart.

So yes, theoretically perhaps I can enable to IPN, but in fact, the only way to do this is by entering an URL which would then clash with my shoppingcart.

So I'm going to call PP tomorrow to verify about opening another account, as Checkers, said we could do. I'll ask them again about the IPN then.

Still working on it! Thanks for everything,
MM

Statistics: Posted by mariamar — September 12th, 2011, 6:01 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-11T18:35:54-05:00

Just to be sure, the business reps are in the office during regular business hours 8:00-5:00 M-F Pacific time.
Be sure to call during the day.

Statistics: Posted by checkers1811 — September 11th, 2011, 6:35 pm

Re: PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations

2011-09-11T18:32:01-05:00

Hi, I did call and they told me that no, I cannot. I can have another account, but it would have to be linked to ANOTHER business bank account, which I don't have and don't want to open just for this. Maybe it was just that person who did not know, but that's what the rep said. Perhaps I'll call again and talk to someone else. Thanks for your information. MM

Statistics: Posted by mariamar — September 11th, 2011, 6:32 pm