https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/spam-paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning Gravity Support Forums Topic: [SPAM] PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:37:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/spam-paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-88530 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:13:59 +0000 Chris Hajer 88530@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You can check with PayPal to ensure that the payment was received. The IPN happens after payment is processed, so the fact that there is no IPN does NOT mean you did not receive the money. However, because the IPN never makes it back to Gravity Forms, if you have an action which depends on successful payment (subscription to a mailing list, or publishing a post) that will not happen because Gravity Forms does not know the transaction was completed.</p> <p>Regarding the IPN not arriving, that is between PayPal and your server. Gravity Forms just listens, and the URL you posted worked for me. If PayPal cannot communicate with that server, I would contact their support to see if they have any suggestions. I'm not sure when you have that error if you can resend the IPN from the IPN history or not. Whenever an IPN does not arrive for me, it normally says "Sent" in the IPN history, and I can resend it and it arrives shortly after, updating the payment status for the entry. I'm not sure if you have the option to do that or not, because I have never seen that error. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/spam-paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-87991 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:38:33 +0000 KindraPB 87991@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have been sifting through the forum and see that the IPN failing is a common problem. I dont have any plugins that should be blocking communication between PayPal and my server. What is the best way to get to the bottom of the problem?</p> <p>I get:</p> <p>Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment<br /> Notifications (IPN). IPNs sent to the following URL(s) are failing:</p> <p><a href="http://www.visitoshkosh.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn" rel="nofollow">http://www.visitoshkosh.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn</a></p> <p>ALSO: does this mean that the money isn't being transferred to the account or that the notification isn't being fired back to my server to display the post that was paid for. </p>