I am new to the paypal api, but have integrated it into my site. Every transaction has 2 receivers using the adaptive payments api. Every once in awhile I get an ipn response with status of INCOMPLETE. Reading the documentation it says this status is because
Some transfers succeeded and some failed for a parallel payment or, for a delayed chained payment, secondary receivers have not been paid
Why would only one transaction work? Only the first recipient is getting the money causing problems. What is the best way to handle this? Anyway to immediately refund the buyer with the first recipients payment?
You could reverse all payments if any of them in the request fail using the reverseAllParallelPaymentsOnError parameter.
xs:boolean (Optional) Whether to reverse parallel payments if an error
occurs with a payment. Allowable values are: true – Each parallel
payment is reversed if an error occurs false – Only incomplete
payments are reversed (default)
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I want to test the following scenarios which are included in the stripe subscription status documentation.
Can anyone please suggest a test card in stripe to test it?
Scenario 1
Incomplete_expired- The initial payment on the subscription failed and no successful payment was made within 23 hours of creating the subscription. These subscriptions do not bill customers. This status exists so you can track customers that failed to activate their subscriptions.
Scenario 2
Unpaid- The latest invoice hasn’t been paid but the subscription remains in place. The latest invoice remains open and invoices continue to be generated but payments aren’t attempted.
You should use a test card where the payment will be declined for the initial subscription invoice payment. There's a full list here, but 4000000000000002 will return a generic card_declined error which should be sufficient for this testing case.
Have a look at the SO question: Simulate Stripe Subscription Renewal Failure
The idea is to create a user with a valid payment method and then change the payment method later on via the dashboard for example.
For incomplete_expired - just pay with card which need 3d secure like 4000002500003155 and don't make card authentication, subscription will move to incomplete after 3 hours, after 23 hours subscription status will move from incomplete to incomplete_expired.
For unpaid status Stripe says some additional setting should be applied
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-status
I am getting IPN response:
My txn_type=recurring_payment_profile_created and initial_payment_status=Completed
I want to check whether payment is failed, to fire mail to buyer.
What are the possible values of initial_payment_status in PayPal Express checkout.
There is no additional information in documentation for parameter "initial_payment_status" but the payment statuses are described in official paypal API documentation. Possible values are:
CANCELED – The Preapproval agreement was cancelled
CREATED – The payment request was received; funds will be transferred once the payment is approved
COMPLETED – The payment was successful
INCOMPLETE – Some transfers succeeded and some failed for a parallel payment or, for a delayed chained payment, secondary receivers have not been paid
ERROR – The payment failed and all attempted transfers failed or all completed transfers were successfully reversed
REVERSALERROR – One or more transfers failed when attempting to reverse a payment
PROCESSING – The payment is in progress
PENDING – The payment is awaiting processing
When Payment fails in Magento the order statues is set to incomplete because it is waiting for the payment, so what is the best to integrate with and ERP system the orders when completed?
Is the Cron the only possible way?
Do I really need to be asking Magento every hour if the orders are completed?
Isn't there a event based api for this?
Thanks in advanced.
Yes Cron is the best way. Assuming that you are using many payments methods, like Skill or Paypal, the process is not immediate. Let's see this example:
1 - The user checkouts and selects PAYPAL
2 - The order is saved in Magento as PENDING - PAYMENT
3 - Imagine then that is Paypal the CARD is expired or not approved then the client goes for all this process of adding or changing another card to paypal, only after this change the client can finished the process
Until the payment is done, the order stays as PENDING PAYMENT
So with a CRON you can keep checking all orders and if this client actually finished the order, on the next CRON call the integration with the ERP can be made.
What also happens is that is the client gives up on paypal this order will stay pending forever. You need to decide what to do with this orders.
I'm currently integrating into 2co.
Before redirecting the client to 2co checkout page, I book the goods in my system for a moment(10 minutes) and they are not available for this period for other clients. After the time elapsed, they'll be auto unbooked.
But at this moment do I have any influence on the payment process which actually is going on in parallel in another place? From what I've read, I only receive the info about the result of payment when the user(client) has successfully(or not) finished his work.
Is there any timeout parameters I can set before the payment or special links I can refer in the case of timeout occured?
The 2Checkout transaction fees are not taken from the sale until it deposits (settles). When selling intangible products or using the third party cart parameter set, the sale will not deposit for at least 24 hours. If you are selling tangible products with the Pass Through Product parameters or Plug and Play parameters, the sale will not deposit until you mark it as shipped.
The buyer's 2Checkout purchase session will expire after 60 minutes. So you could pass in your custom cart identifier using 2Checkout's merchant_order_id parameter, release the booking after any time interval you choose and if the buyer completes the sale after the booking has been released, decide whether or not you want to refund using the refund_invoice API call based on the cart identifier passed back from 2Checkout with the merchant_order_id parameter.
As far as handling the passback, you can either use the initial passback to your approved URL that occurs when the sale is completed, or you can use the 2Checkout Instant Notification Service Order Created message. If you use the ORDER_CREATED message from the INS, the value you pass in with the merchant_order_id will be passed back using the vendor_order_id parameter on all INS messages pertaining to the sale.
Let me know if you would like some help implementing this.
We're setting up a system that will use the XML API for Automated Recurring Billing with Authorize.net.
It looks simple enough to set up a recurring billing. But we have two features that do not seem obvious
* providing customers with details on individual payments
* providing notification to customers of expired/canceled cards
Anyone familiar with a mechanism to retrieve this info in automated form? We're considering
* just listing out assumed payments based on our own calculations the start date
* emailing customers based on the expiration date of the ards
But I'm stymed on how to figure out when a transaction failed due to canceled card (and automatically notify the customer).
Can anyone comment on how they handled this issue when implementing a subscription-based service based on Authorize.net?
Authorize.Net has recently published a new ARB method "ARBGetSubscriptionStatus".
You may now easily query the status of a previously submitted ARB subscription without the need to depend on the "Silent Post Method".
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd"> <merchantAuthentication> <name>mytestacct</name> <transactionKey>112223344</transactionKey> </merchantAuthentication> <refId>Sample</refId> <subscriptionId>100748</subscriptionId> </ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest>
You want to use Authorize.Net's silent post feature. It will notify you of all payments made through their system including declines and expired credit cards. Your script will then be able to suspend accounts and/or notify your customers that their payments has failed.
See these link for more info:
Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures
All About Authorize.Net’s Silent Post
Handling Authorize.Net Silent Post with PHP
You need to use the Silent POST URL
ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest will not work. If the first transaction (or first transaction since the ARB profile was updated, either via API or manually) fails, the status of the subscription is set to suspended. Otherwise, the status of a subscription does not change when a transaction declines or a card expires.
Using the Silent POST URL, you'll be notified of successful transactions and you can use them to update your data such as tracking a next payment due date/expiration date. You can then run a cron job and if this field has not been updated, you will know that the card was cancelled or expired.
In the event that it is still an active card but gets declined, you'll get notified as such at the Silent POST URL