How To View PayPal IPNs in SubscriptionBoss

When you click on the Notifications options in the menu you see a list of PayPal IPNs. On this page you can search for a IPN, sort the order of the list, view the details of an IPN, or delete the IPN Searching for IPNs Just type in the search box on the top right […]

Submitting Orders Using the Infusionsoft API

These instructions are for SubscriptionBoss users who are currently using the ‘WebForm’ method of submitting orders to Infusionsoft and want to switch to using the API method which requires less setup. If you wish to have affiliate sales, you will need to use this method. The minimum version of SubscriptionBoss that has this feature is […]

Affiliate Sales Using SubscriptionBoss

IMPORTANT: This article is only relevant if you are NOT integrating SB using an Infusionsoft order form or shopping cart. With these methods the SB script can read the Infusionsoft cookie and hence no set up is required, so just leave the default settings. However if your order form is in the WordPress site, then […]

PayPal API Certificate Authentication

With the PayPal API there are two methods of authentication: an API Signature and API Certificate. Up until SubscriptionBoss version 0.98 only the API signature was supported but with the release of version 0.99 you have the ability to authenticate PayPal API transactions using an API Certificate. PayPal PayFlow Users Authenticate Using an API Certificate […]

PayPal IPN Source IP Address Validation

SubscriptionBoss now features an option that allows you to verify that the Instant Payments Notifications are coming from a valid PayPal IP server address. This feature is found on the plugin Settings page and can be be configured during the SubscriptionBoss Six Step Setup. Why You Might Want To Use This Security Feature This feature […]

PayPal Refund Actions

SubscriptionBoss now has the ability to notify your Infusionsoft account, via an action set, when a refund is issued on PayPal. There are two types of refund: Refunds of single payments Refunds of individual recurring payments SubscriptionBoss processes the PayPal IPN and works out to which product or subscription charge the refund is to be […]

Order Confirmation Pages

What Is Order Confirmation? The Order Confirmation page is where the buyer confirms they want to proceed with the order. It is a pre-order step; it is not a thank you page. If the buyer cancels on this page then there is no order. The page consists of an order summary and a “confirm order” […]

PayPal IPN Listener Conflict Resolution

The PayPal Recurring Payments system has a limitation in that it does not allow you to specify a notify_url parameter so you can tell PayPal to send instant payment notifications (IPNs) to a specific URL for each subscription product. Instead all IPNs are sent to a default URL that you set up statically by logging […]

Deploying PayPal Links and Forms On Other Sites

The SubscriptionBoss plugin acts a gateway between your PayPal account which takes the payments and the Infusionsoft billing system which manages your customers and generates invoices. SubscriptionBoss comes with the SubscriptionBoss short code with makes it easy to insert a PayPal button on the site. However often you want to initiate your sales process on […]

Custom Payment Pages on PayPal

Today I released a version 0.7 of the SubscriptionBoss plugin with a feature that allows you to specify a Custom Payment Page on PayPal. You specify the payment page by setting the page style for the subscription in the SubscriptionBoss subscription admin page. The page style you specify in the plugin must match exactly the […]