Paypal: Order information not sent to opencart UNLESS customer returns to site

Greetings,

I am having a serious issue with the paypal payment module.

After payment has been processed from the paypal site... my site does NOT get order information UNLESS the customer clicks on the "Return to " button to return to the site with http:///index.php?controller=checkout_success

ONLY after the user goes back to the site (to checkout_success) does the product order information shows up.


Is there any recommended fix to this payment issue?

Thank you,
Dmitry


The installed paypal module is the latest one on http://www.opencart.com/contribution/in ... tion_id/33

bruce is the best person to speak to about this, await his advice.

Update: Try this: http://forum.opencart.com/index.php/top ... ml#msg8027

Hi Dimitry,

Check your paypal account settings to see if it is set up to send an IPN or confirm that it is sent automatically.
Check your apache logs to see if the paypal IPN is being received.
If your hosting provider is GoDaddy then the verification message is being blocked on the way out and so even though the IPN is received, the verification process fails. After a lot of research, the only published cure I have seen for this is to change hosting providers.

Ensure that you have created the order status values as per the installation instructions for this extension. Check the order_status table to ensure that the values are correct as opencart 0.7.7 order status admin is broken (search the forum for my fix)

If any or all of the above do not suit you then for more information on what is happening, create a simple table in your database with a varchar(512) field and insert trace messages in it from within the callback() function in the paypal payment extension. Particularly in the error handling areas.

I also have a new version of this about to be released. If you send me an email, I will reply with a copy.

Cheers

Bruce