What Are These PayPal Notification Emails?

Damian asked: I joined Subscription Boss & set it up, looks to be working correctly, but what is this email? Array ([paypal_ipn] => a:32:{ s:19:”transaction_subject”;s:0:””; s:12:”payment_date”;s:25:”00:21:58 Feb 22, 2014 PST”; s:8:”txn_type”;s:16:”express_checkout”;s:9:”last_name”;s:3:”Doe”; s:17:”residence_country”;s:2:”US”; s:9:”item_name”;s:32:”Setup Charge for Test Membership”; s:13:”payment_gross”;s:4:”0.25″;s:11:”mc_currency”;s:3:”USD”; s:12:”payment_type”;s:7:”instant”; s:22:”protection_eligibility”;s:10:”Ineligible”; s:11:”verify_sign”;s:56:”AFd.erwt7Voes2Mr85yut0RloHozAkJHPfCa2lg4u3m6Y5IcLKQuileb”; s:12:”payer_status”;s:8:”verified”;s:3:”tax”;s:4:”0.00″; s:11:”payer_email”;s:18:”[email protected]”; s:6:”txn_id”;s:17:”9R38147904376032U”;s:8:”quantity”;s:1:”1″; s:14:”receiver_email”;s:20:”[email protected]”; s:10:”first_name”;s:6:”John”;s:8:”payer_id”;s:13:”CJDGDQKUM9E6A”; s:11:”receiver_id”;s:13:”C82923HX5D2″;s:11:”item_number”;s:0:””; s:19:”payer_business_name”;s:15:”Cool Stuff”; s:15:”handling_amount”;s:4:”0.00″; s:14:”payment_status”;s:9:”Completed”; s:11:”payment_fee”;s:4:”0.25″;s:6:”mc_fee”;s:4:”0.25″; s:8:”shipping”;s:4:”0.00″;s:8:”mc_gross”;s:4:”0.25″; s:6:”custom”;s:7:”p8:test”; s:7:”charset”;s:12:”windows-1252″; […]

What If We Already Using The IPN Notification URL?

Question: I would like to know if SB require the IPN notification URL to be set in Paypal located an: My Account/Profile/Selling preferences/Instant Payment Notification preferences Because we already have an integration using the IPN notification URL, and because there is only 1 possible URL/account, our concern is that we would need a second PayPal […]

I Need The Site To Go Live Tomorrow – Can You Help?

Getting the site live quickly with the ability to take payment via PayPal for Infusionsoft Subscriptions is possible if you make the necessary preparations. It involves a bit of learning and possibly some software installations or upgrades and some configuration in Infusionsoft. SSL Certificate The first thing is to establish whether or not you need […]

Say Goodbye To Lost PayPal Sales

Steve Cook of ForexTradingCoaches.com has added PayPal as a payment method for his monthly and annual subscriptions to his Foreign Exchange Trading business. Here is what Steve had to say about the experience: SubscriptionBoss is an absolutely fantastic plugin. We have had so many sales through PayPal since implementing it. I don’t know how many […]

SubscriptionBoss Installation On Main Site, Sub-folder Or Subdomain?

Is it better to have a sub domain and associate that with the SSL or will a folder do? What’s the best practice in doing this? Do you have a vendor you recommend? Main Site, Subdomain or Subfolder? There is not a best practice as such – it is whatever makes most sense to your […]

Improvements To PayPal IPN Processing in SubscriptionBoss 1.34

There were a handful of improvements to the algorithm for handling PayPal IPNs. Please note you need to be running at least PHP 5.3 They covered a number of issues: Potential addition of duplicate payments to invoices when either the WordPress site or Infusionsoft was running really slowly Payment dates being in UCT or Greenwich […]

How To Upgrade From PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3

In order to use the latest version of SubscriptionBoss, version 1.34, then you need to run at least PHP 5.3. The first user who updated the plugin to Subscription 1.33 encountered problems due to low level API errors but on upgrading from PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 the problems were resolved. I decided it was […]

Can A User Cancel A PayPal Payment Plan?

We wanted to know if there’s a difference in the way money is collected, between “payment plan” vs “subscription” service. Example we want to sell a product with a payment plan: – Product A = 300$ – plan = 3 payments of 100$ after 30days x 3 – with an immediate charge of 15$ I’ve […]

My Main Site Is Joomla Can I Use SubscriptionBoss?

You can leave your existing sales site on Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress or even Facebook and set up a separate WordPress installation to act as gateway between PayPal and Infusionsoft. Installation Options About 10% of our clients use SubscriptionBoss in this way where it is installed as part of a dedicated WordPress installation in either in […]

How To Pass Custom Variables To An External Script

The requirement is to pass some custom fields collected on an order form, have the user pay via PayPal, and then pass those custom fields to an external script so that it can provision the service. An external script is often required if you are not using Membership software such as iMember360 or CustomerHub that […]