Comments on: Instant Notification Service

By: dayo

dayo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:09:16 +0000

Found it. Thanks.

By: craig

craig — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:08:50 +0000

The page you are referring to only provides an example INS post for the Fraud Status Changed message type. The information you are looking for can be found on page 4 under INS parameter descriptions and formats.

By: dayo

dayo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:32:25 +0000

Thanks.

I understand that FRAUD_STATUS_CHANGED and INVOICE_STATUS_CHANGED are not parameters.

Now regarding the main parameters, I downloaded Rev 1.1 of the INS User Guide and can’t see where the possible values are listed.

On Page 11 of the PDF dealing with Fraud Status for instance, all I can find is “fraud_status=pass” which is highlighted in yellow.

Can you please point me to the relevant part or document if I got the wrong one? I just downloaded it from this site a couple of days ago.

By: craig

craig — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:08:31 +0000

All possible values for each parameter are listed in the description column of the documentation. FRAUD_STATUS_CHANGED and INVOICE_STATUS_CHANGED are not parameters, they are possible values for the message_type parameter. Each message type sends a specific set of parameters that is listed in the “Parameters by message” section of the documentation. The possible values for each parameter are listed in the descriptions for instance fraud_status (pass, fail, or wait) and invoice_status (approved, pending, deposited, or declined).

By: dayo

dayo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:10:03 +0000

I found the pdf file with the IPN explained but it has one flaw that makes it difficult to develop for this feature.

For each type of message, there isn’t a clear and full list of the main status options.

Take FRAUD_STATUS_CHANGED for instance. There is just one example showing fraud_status=pass but I don’t know if there are other messages that could arrive with fraud_status=pending or fraud_status=fail (I guess the last one is a banker.

On INVOICE_STATUS_CHANGED for instance, the file tells us most orders go from
‘approved’ to ‘pending’ to ‘deposited’ but this suggests some orders might have some other things posted and without full information, it is difficult to write proper code.

What is needed is a full list of the options for each of the relevant xyz_status fields. These should be explained.

In summary, I don’t want to write code to process xyz_status=1 or 2 or 3 when there might be 4 & 5.

By: joel

joel — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:36:02 +0000

Hello Crow - I apologize for the incorrect information you were provided. Demo sales will not trigger any INS posts to your scripts. You will need to place a live sale to test the different INS messages. If you just wish to test the new order created message you can place a live test sale and cancel the sale after it has been placed so no funds are removed from your credit card. If you have any other INS questions please contact our technical support team.

By: crow

crow — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:12 +0000

I was advised over the LiveHelp chat that the INS should work even if the order is in “Demo” mode (demo=”Y”).
Had somebody any positive experience on that?
I have prepared the script for the INS notifications and it works fine when I send the parameters to it with my another script.
But when I try to process the demo transaction on my website nothing seems to come back through INS.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

By: joel

joel — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:56:29 +0000

Thank you for pointing this error out. We will address this issue in our documentation.

By: eoin

eoin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:36:15 +0000

Thanks for the clarification.

Your feature guide states thate item_id_ is a required field for message_type=REFUND_ISSUED.

By: ricks

ricks — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:22:03 +0000

The amount that was refunded will be provided in the item_usd_amount_ parameter.

If the product IDs are identical, there would be no way to distinguish which was refunded in the notification.

With partial refunds, item_id_ will not be sent with the INS. The amount for the refund will be provided item_usd_amount_ parameter.