Orders stay "pending" even when Paypal payment is (theoretically) notified

[django29]

Hello.
My problem is in the subject.
- I checked the IPN address on the Paypal website.
- The order is registerd in Virtuemart, and the payment in Paypal
- All the confirmation emails are sent

... but the field "Status" of the order stays on "Pending".

Joomla 1.5.2 + Virtuemart 1.1.9.

What can I do ?

[stinga]

Have a look in paypal at the ipn history, might be a clue there.
Else you are going to have to work out what is wrong with notify.php

[lindapowers]

Having the exact same issue, did you manage to solve it?

We did not change anything in VM or Joomla code and using same version as you.

In our case emails are delayed for our or even days and in some cases you won't even recieve the IPN email that changes the order to confirmed, so they remain pending even after being payed.

Thanks

[stinga]

Did you have a look in PP IPN history? That will tell you what PP thinks is happening.

[lindapowers]

Thanks Stinga.

TBH we were gonna look today (boss had to check that didn't have account access) but strangely it was solved, so now everything is working fine.

So nothing to do with Virtuemart but paypal itself.

Regards

[jenkinhill]

If you use PayPal a lot you are advised to sign up for the status RSS feed on this page:  https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/site-status

Then you would have been notified of this:  https://www.x.com/content/update-5-issue-receiving-instant-payment-notifications-ipns-jan-27   (but all fixed now)

[lejeannotfr]

hi, yes this problem happened in january but it also seems that the new htaccess of joomla can block the PP server and return a 403 error.
It may be due to a new line in the 1.5.26 joomla htaccess. I have this problem since 5 days and it's not due to PP ipn...and i don't have the solution.

[dbzeroone]

Django29, did you ever solve this problem? I'm going through the same thing right now and any info would help.

PHP 5.3.13
Joomla 1.5.26
Virtuemart 1.1.19
Paypal Website Payment Pro

[lejeannotfr]

i give you a response worthy of this forum : upgrade to VM 2 because there's no solution... 
Go to see in your paypal account in the configuration you must give your website urls to check ipn and automatically send the order status.

[ssbuchan]

dbzeroone,

I had this same issue and just resolved it today.  I'm using Hostgator for my hosting and the problem for me was on their end.  They recently made some changes to their system which resulted in Paypal being blocked by a firewall. I started getting 406 error codes returned to Paypal which are logged in the IPN History section in my Paypal account.  The solution was for Hostgator to whitelist my domain so that Paypal could once again communicate with virtuemart and get through the firewall.

Not sure if this will resolve your issue or for anyone else, but I thought it would be worth sharing just in case.