[SOLVED] Paypal PDT Subscription charge failure

[nate2099]

Hi,

I thought I'd try here given my experience with a particular companies version of customer service..

I have set up a site that takes subscription payments via paypal, and although not fully yet tested it seems to be working.

What I was hoping to find out is how to deal with failed transactions after the initial transaction.. ie subscription renewal??

I have it set for Paypal to automatically recharge the subscribers paypal account. I'm assuming it's something to do with their IPN system, does this involve having a program continually running on the server to proccess this info coming from paypal, and then update the database accordingly?? And, forgive my ignorance, but what language does this need to be done in, and can it be done on a public server??

Can anyone point me in the right direction??

Thanks,

Nate.

[c010depunkk]

I've never done this myself. But I've just asked a work colleague who's done a Paypal integration for a private site and he used PHP.... Sry I can't give you more info.

[Rakuli]

I've only just started looking into paypal systems recently myself.

This Manual is fairly in depth as well as the Paypal documentation..

Have a read of those (I am reading also) and you should find what you're after.

Cheers

[nate2099]

No worries, thanks guys.

For anyone else who comes accross this:

From what I gather, everytime paypal does a transaction, they will call a webpage on your server with a whole bunch of data including a SUCCESS or FAIL variable, then you can update the database accordingly.This is called their IPN or something..