webhook not send update notification
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Hi,
I activated webhooks to receive payment notifications from PayPal.
I'm on sandbox state.
I receive several calls on the server, e.g. with action "ACTIVATED", "CREATED" and "CANCELLED":
But I don't understand why I don't receive the renewal ones (BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.UPDATED)
For example, this payment was updated today, but I didn't receive any notification
What am I getting wrong?
Thanks for your support
Daniele
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some more data
this recurring payment created yesterday was updated today
On log page I have for this subscription CREATED and ACTIVATE webhook log, but not "UPDATE" log
On my server I write a log for each call from the webhook, but there is no trace of the UPDATE one
I don't know what else to do to make webhook send the notification
Regards
Daniele
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Hi
Has anyone ever had the same problem as me?
I tried to include in my script that receives the webhooks a check on both the PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED and PAYMENT.SALE.PENDING events
Looks like something now is sent from PayPal: when the subscription is automatically renewed, the webhook sends PAYMENT.SALE.PENDING to my script but not the PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED.
So how do I know if a payment has actually been successful and a subscription is paid and therefore extend the validity on my site?
Is it perhaps a limitation only due to the fact that I have sandbox active and not live?
Thank you
Daniele

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