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Paypal IPN: Pending because of multi_currency issue

Sunday, October 3, 2010

I was getting IPN posts from paypal with payment_status=Pending along with pending_reason=multi_currency @ IPN URL. This was happening each time I tried a non-USD currency in my cart. Simply accepting multiple currencies in my paypal seller account fixed the problem. Its Payment Receiving Preferences section under Profile, if you wish to set it in advance.

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Testing Paypal IPN in sandbox and nonstandard http port issue

Sunday, October 3, 2010

It seems that paypal IPN has issues with non-standard http ports. I discovered this after a lot of head bangs against IPN simulator. So, do make sure that your public URL is “publicly” accessible and is on port 80 (or 443) Also, don’t forget to enable “IPN hits” in the seller account that you are [...]

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