Comments on: payment_status value in Paypal Sandbox always pending

By: dunk

dunk — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:34:13 +0000

I’ve been struggling with this problem for many, many hours! Thanks so much!! I can now finally open my shop!

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:01:02 +0000

I changed the Test Accounts type to “Disabled” in “Payment Review” column but i’m still getting pending status on sandbox transaction. Save me……..

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:07:03 +0000

Hi,

That was helpful!! I was getting frustrated not able to figure out why the status was pending

Note : The fix is only for sandbox testing not for actual transactions

By: EangHort

EangHort — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:06:49 +0000

When payment status padding paypal send ipn to ipn_url, after payment status completed paypal send ipn to ipu_url again?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:02:38 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful. I wish PayPal had included this in their documentation…

By: manik

manik — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:51:31 +0000

glad it helped.

By: dani

dani — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:19:22 +0000

thanks for tip, I have just testing this and I received pending status for transaction. Thanks for help

By: manik

manik — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:16:25 +0000

@ori
we need to test for both pending and completed status. in live cases we would see the payment status pending for reasons like payment not cleared etc. When paypal payment completes, paypal sends a payment status completed call to the script.

for the live sites on the code we should handle the situation as we like. In my case I did now allow the subscribers access the paid only access part of the website until the system gets payment status completed call from paypal. on the payment page we have put a small note for that.

By: ori

ori — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:27:55 +0000

Hi!

But whats happen if in the live,the client don´t have this option on? that can make some problem,no?