Questions tagged [paypal-webhooks]

PayPal webhooks allows merchant systems to get notified of events, using the HTTP webhook callbacks of the PayPal API.

What is it?

PayPal webhooks allows merchant systems to get notified of events, using the HTTP webhook callbacks of the PayPal API.

How it works?

  • The merchant implements and operates a webhook listener service
  • The listener subscribes to events
  • The listener is notified via HTTP POST messages of the events that occur and may react accordingly.

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Paypal webhook when subscription ends/expires not fired

There are several webhooks for PayPal, I enabled the following: Billing subscription activated Billing subscription cancelled Billing subscription created Billing subscription expired Billing subscription payment failed Billing subscription…
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Paypal Webhook is created sufficient to imply activated

Paypal with active webhooks. We use a subscription plan. When a customer subscribes to the subscription plan PayPal's webhook sends us a BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CREATED. 

We do not get a BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.ACTIVATED. Can I expect it being activated…
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PAYMENT.CAPTURE.COMPLETED: How to get parent payment?

When getting an event PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED in a webhook, you can use this code to get more information about the payer: $resource = $webhookEvent->getResource(); $Payment = \Paypal\Api\Payment::get($resource->parent_payment, $apiContext); $Payer =…
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PayPal WebHook Verification in PHP

Referencing the answer here: PHP verify Paypal webhook signature Is this still the working solution for today (Jan '22)? Curious why it says on github.com/paypal/PayPal-PHP-SDK that this package is deprecated? (and archived)?
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PayPal REST API WebHook Verification in Perl

I know I probably shouldn't be doing this in Perl but please humour me: Trying to validate the signature of a PayPal REST API 2 Webhook. The 'raw_query' is the HTTP payload sent by PayPal which is CRC32 encoded as per PayPal. The Public Key Cert is…
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PayPal WebHooks - Paypal-cert-url

I'm having an issue with PayPal webhooks, i will receive all webhooks except for ones dealing with activating a purchase like BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.ACTIVATED i'm thinking it has something to do with my code here: $signatureVerification = new…
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PayPal webhook created vs activated

I'm finishing up my paypal webhook, when dealing with subscriptions is their a difference between BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.ACTIVATED and BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CREATED? When looking at the the developer docs it doesn't say anything except A subscription…
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"verification_status":"FAILURE" always fails - PayPal-Node-SDK

I've been trying to integrate a PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED notification webhook. I searched all over the internet and its always fails with this error code: "verification_status":"FAILURE", status: const verifyWebHook = (header, body, token, webhookId)…
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PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED not received

I've implemented PayPal recurring payments following this guide. All seems to be working, the subscription is created when the sandbox customer purchase it, but the problem's that I reiceve on the webhook only this event:…
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Unable to perform successful Paypal webhook validation

I am working to validate Paypal webhook data but I'm running into an issue where it's always returning a FAILURE for the validation status. I'm wondering if it's because this is all happening in a sandbox environment and Paypal doesn't allow…
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How to go live with PayPal Invoicing webhook?

I'm very new to all of this and have been trying to teach myself as best I can. I'm just trying to automate a simple process for my business; when a customer pays their PayPal Invoice, we send an email (in the billing info of that invoice) a link…
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Paypal Smart Buttons Metadata - Webhook

I'm using the Paypal Javascript SDK to render smart buttons and capture and authorize all client side. Everything is working great except for the occasional customer not waiting around for processing to complete on our side. I have set up webhooks…
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Paypal IPN vs webhook events

our platform has defined IPN for mass payouts and it's defined couple of years ago (it wasn't deprecated at that time). Now, we have started with new payout using new RestAPI and webhooks and for the new implementation with defined webhooks events…
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Parsing/using WebhookEvent data sent to a PHP listener

I'm receiving the JSON data from PayPal's webhook to my end point. I can of course parse it into a PHP object. Is this the best way to handle this data? I would have thought that the JSON data could be converted back into a new 'WebhookEvent' object…
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PayPal Express Checkout - Webhook PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED

I was searching a while and also read the paypal docs but I am unable to find an answer to my question. I created a recurring payment with Paypal Express Checkout. Everything is working fine, but now I need to know a little bit more about…