Setting up multiple IPN's?

[AK2]

I already have 1 IPN url set for my account, but i want to add an IPN for another application. Is there anyway for me to have 2 set up at the same time, or is it only 1 per account?

Thanks.

-AK2

[AndyVoice]

@MarLarsen 

LOL ... With this kind of response it obvious that you have not much of a clue about doing business online... (rolling eyes...)

Cheers!

[freesalesman]

Hi there. I give you my own reason of needing multiple ipn URLs and in fact one for each product purchased. It would be great to be able to auto redirect my clients to specific URLs in order not only to say thank you bit in addition to give them a link with the products' specs user manuals etc. How does this sound? Client buys 3 items? I need one URL for each product to guide them to useful download links concerning the products they bought. Simply as this.

[mustafaarun]

you can use "notify_url" parameter on your website posted data to use custom IPN handler

[webmonkeymon]

yes, this is true.  you can even turn off ipn in the business paypal selling tools profile and still use the ipn.  

we added a vendor that cranked up sales but threatened our current sales because we depend on the ipn and each of the new vendor sales where sending invalid ipns and failing because of the ipn of our custom cart did not match.  so after so many fails paypal warned us that they will turn off to control all the unecessary traffic.  

so yes,  if you have control of the code you are sending, you can designate a different  'notify_url' .  they should put in the business ipn selling tool setting.  if you are using a custom notify_url, you can leave ipn off.   But getting it to work you assume its not working because its off. 

I do sympathize with this thread and the frustration of the documentation at paypal.  its not that the documentation is incorrect per se, it just seems so siloed under ambiguous categories and little is written or spoken on video in practical language that addresses multiple scenarios and combined checkout solutions and blending different types of purshasing,  well not for me anyway. 

[AlanAWS]

I see that there is this code here. But where are we suppose to put the code in? Do we just copy and paste somewhere or we have to edit the code? What about the current IPN URL that is in Paypal?

[jartigas]

I am also in the same problem than the rest of the people posting in this thread and I am fully sympathetic. I find PayPal lack of care upseting. There is however a way around this problem by setting the notify_url and then follow PayPal procedure for verifying the IPN post. For PHP languaje  you can read about this in:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4848227/validate-that-ipn-call-is-from-paypal

Check the answer by Sergey Shuchkin, which is the lastest one. This is also in PayPal documentation

[gabegs]

Is there any solution to this? This has become a huge headache for me. I have multiple, membership based businesses and I want to use the same Paypal (especially since we're not allowed to have multiple Paypal acounts). Each one requires the use of the single IPN spot. I tried Zapier, but that doesn't support recurring payments.

It seems crazy to me that Paypal doesn't offer multiple IPNs. Are there any answers to why they do this, or if there's some kind of workaround that actually works?

[PayPal_DavidR]

Hi there,

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-David R