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Paypal IPN not being received by Event espresso (new thread)

Posted: December 23, 2013 at 12:07 pm

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TheWHEGroup

December 23, 2013 at 12:07 pm

New Thread… as requested.

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I’ve been all through the forums looking for something very similar to this issue.
It is intermittent. PayPal IPN is getting a 200 Response. BUT! The payment is not updated in EE and there is NOTHING about the transaction in the EE IPN Log. It is VERY strange indeed. Transactions before and after it that day are all fine. Have checked with server admins and nothing blocked (logs checked). A timeout would not return 200, right?
Something’s up. We’re at 3.1.35.1.P and WP 3.6.1

Hi TheWHEGroup,
If you have the exact times that the registrations were made that did not get logged in the paypal IPN log you could look in the server’s error log to see if there was anything going on with the server at that time.
It may also help to verify that the pages with the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS], [ESPRESSO_TXN_PAGE], and [ESPRESSO_PAYMENTS] shortcodes are not being cached. This would be either by a caching plugin or by the host.

I’m getting those server logs now.
If it helps… These are multi-event registrations payment transactions. They contain both free events and non-free events.
Interestingly, all the non-paid (free) events in the transaction are marked complete (the default is incomplete).
If I attempt to re-send the IPN in that state, PayPal gets a 200 BUT there is nothing in the EE IPN log and the none of the event’s status change.
IF however, I reset that entire transaction to “incomplete” and then resend the IPN, everything works.
Is it possible that because some events are free, the code is marking all the events in that transaction complete and thus skipping the remaining (non-free) events in the transaction because you have code that skips “complete” events during an IPN update?

Peter

NO caching enabled, plugin or server side
Server error logs are clear. No errors
Server log shows the incoming IPN
173.0.81.1 – – [20/Dec/2013:11:49:05 -0500] “POST /?page_id=13&id=327&r_id=17-52b474811dde9&event_id=17&attendee_action=post_payment&form_action=payment&type=paypal HTTP/1.0? 200 2252
173.0.81.1 – – [20/Dec/2013:11:49:05 -0500] “POST /?page_id=13&id=327&r_id=17-52b474811dde9&event_id=17&attendee_action=post_payment&form_action=payment&type=paypal HTTP/1.0? 200 2252 “-” “PayPal IPN ( https://www.paypal.com/ipn )”


@Peter
, can you start a new thread and we can follow up with you there?


Josh

  • Support Staff

December 23, 2013 at 2:23 pm

Is it possible that because some events are free, the code is marking all the events in that transaction complete and thus skipping the remaining (non-free) events in the transaction because you have code that skips “complete” events during an IPN update?

I don’t believe so, I’ve tried testing this a few different ways and the IPN will always eventually update the status to Complete after paying even if there was a free event in the cart.

This is testing Event Espresso 3.1.36.1 though, so your results may vary with 3.1.35.


TheWHEGroup

December 28, 2013 at 4:43 pm

To be clear, when a registrant checks out on our system (and this all worked fine in Sandbox and does work intermittently for some users) if they have free and paid events in their cart, the free events are marked Complete and the paid events don’t get updated. The transaction (IPN) info is not populated. But, PayPal reports that it got a 200. There are no errors in any EE logs. BUT, there is also NO entry in the IPN log.

Something is most certainly up here and it’s getting very frustrating. “My results may vary” is not an acceptable response for a minor incremental upgrade. There is NO indication any code whatsoever changed in the payment code, unless you failed to note it.

Please advise how we can begin to escalate this issue.


TheWHEGroup

December 28, 2013 at 5:49 pm

New TEST Scenario for you to run! This might be it! I have tried this a couple times and it fails/succeeds consistently so far.

This seems to be Event ID dependent.

If the event with the LOWEST Event ID in the Registration is a FREE event it fails.

If the event with the LOWEST Event ID in the Registration is a PAID event it succeeds.

Look at your logic for how you create the RegistrationID. You use the lowest Event Id (e.g. 3-52bf6f9a2c0ee) from the particular cart checkout. That was my clue. I saw bunch of registrations with a low Event ID prefix failing. Those with higher EventID prefixes were not failing – we had entered all our free events first, thus they have a lower ID. So I began digging deeper into our records and this seems to be a good bug candidate.

Please check and advise ASAP. I can edit code for a hot fix if you have some.

Peter


Sidney Harrell

December 30, 2013 at 12:06 pm

Hey Peter, thanks for your patience. We’ve tested and reproduced the problem and found the fix for it. In gateways/process_payments.php on line 47 is the function espresso_get_total_cost. You can either make the changes to that function, or override it using the code here. If you override it, you can add this code to one of the following:
1 – Your theme’s functions.php file. It may get overwritten the next time you update your theme.
2 – The EE custom files add-on in the custom_functions.php file.
3 – Use this blank plugin to hold the custom function.
If you make the changes directly to gateways/process_payments.php, then change line 56 to:

$sql = "SELECT a.final_price, a.quantity, a.amount_pd FROM " . EVENTS_ATTENDEE_TABLE . " a ";

then after line 60:

$total_quantity = 0;

place this line:

$amount_pd = 0;

then after line 66:

$total_quantity += $ticket['quantity'];

place this line:

$amount_pd += $ticket['amount_pd'];

and after line 81:

$payment_data['quantity'] = $total_quantity;

place these lines:

$payment_data['amount_pd'] = number_format( $amount_pd, 2, '.', '' );
	$payment_data['amount_owed'] = number_format( $total_cost-$amount_pd, 2, '.', '');

Finally, whether you override that function or change it directly, go down and find (approximately line 199):

if ( $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Completed' && $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Refund' ) {

and change it to:

if ( $payment_data['amount_owed'] > 0.00 && $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Refund' ) {

Note that line numbers are approximate, since I’m looking in EE 3.1.37-Alpha, so I’ve included the old code or the line above where you need to insert code to help you locate where to make the changes.
Also, if you are using paypal pro or any other gateway, you might want to go into includes/process-registration/payment_page.php, find line 411:

if ( $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Completed' && $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Refund' ) {

and make the same change to it:

if ( $payment_data['amount_owed'] > 0.00 && $payment_data['payment_status'] != 'Refund' ) {


TheWHEGroup

December 30, 2013 at 1:24 pm

YES! That sure seems to have fixed it.

We’ll keep an eye out and let you know if there’s any additional issues, but it seems to have worked for the scenario we discovered.

We changed the code directly.

Thanks for the excellent response and for not making us wait for an official update!

Peter


Sidney Harrell

December 30, 2013 at 4:10 pm

Thanks. What we found was that it was adding the free event to the cart first that set it off. Since that determined the order of the events on the page where you enter the attendee information, and the first attendee on that page is marked as the primary attendee. It’s the primary attendee’s payment status that was being checked when the IPN message came back from paypal.


Josh

  • Support Staff

January 8, 2014 at 3:51 pm

Sidney’s fixes were added to the Event Espresso 3.1.36.2.P release, so anyone else seeing this issue should update if they haven not already done so.

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