Paypal IPN - Sending Multiple Posts

[suarve]

Hi,

I have a basic paypal shopping basket, whereby after a successful payment is made via paypal I get PayPal to post to my IPN script. The IPN script simply checks the request, updates stock levels and sends out order emails.

This has been working fine for over 2 years now.

However, in the last couple of days PayApl seems to send multiple (as in 10 or 15) posts to my IPN script. I've looked at the raw data being sent from PayPal and it's the same transaction ID each time. Also, only a single payment is being recieved too.

I'm at a bit of a loss about what could be causing this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[sist_si]

if you log into paypal (the recipient account) have you looked at the ipn history? it's in one of the drop down menus.

anyway, via that you'll be able to see how many calls have been made and if you click into the detail, you can see the exact request content they're posting to you.
I take this data and do a manual httppost to my ipn page with debugging to see what's going on.

with things like subscriptions (if you're using them) you get several calls for all the different status info. if it's a normal single payment- something could be going wrong hence retries are happening.