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PayPal Standard – Payment accepted but Registration not completed

Posted: May 10, 2016 at 3:22 pm


James Noronha

May 10, 2016 at 3:22 pm

Hi there,

I have one more question. This has only started happening with greater frequency over the last day (though it might have been going on longer and I just didn’t notice because they were few and far between)

A number of registrations over the last day have been showing as “Pending” and Incomplete or actually more often Abandoned (as the transaction status) but when I go into the actual transaction history I discover that not only has payment been made but that the PayPal authorization is there and it has been confirmed.

I’ve been correcting these by essentially approving all of these entries manually… but its a pain because I can’t really tell which ones are incomplete and which ones just failed to connect the transaction completion with the event registration being made Active.

Any idea why this might be happening and what I can do to fix it. With a number of events all coming up in the next few days, I don’t have the time to constantly check on teh registration, and I don’t want it to be a problem for people at the door. As it is I sent emails out to a bunch fo people telling them that payment was pending and they responded with “but you’ve received my money”.

All suggestions are helpful!

Cheers,

James


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

May 10, 2016 at 4:35 pm

Hi James,

Could you take a look at these steps and let us know if the PayPal IPN is enabled in your PayPal account?

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-set-up-paypal-ipn/#paypal


Lorenzo


James Noronha

May 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm

Yes the PayPal IPN is enabled… and to be clear this doesn’t happen for all transactions just some of them. I did note that the button collation was not set to UTF-8 and was instead a windows collation. I corrected that.

J


Tony

  • Support Staff

May 11, 2016 at 2:07 am

Hi James,

Do you have auto return enabled within your PayPal account?

A number of registrations over the last day have been showing as “Pending” and Incomplete or actually more often Abandoned (as the transaction status) but when I go into the actual transaction history I discover that not only has payment been made but that the PayPal authorization is there and it has been confirmed.

When viewing the transaction history are you viewing that within EE or PayPal?

Does it show the payment within the EE transaction? Like this – http://take.ms/fmt4h

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