Fatal Error – “Payment is not ready for processing yet”

Hi team,

We’re getting a persistent fatal error from the WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin when the CHECKOUT.ORDER.APPROVED webhook hits:

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PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: The payment is not ready for processing yet. in .../woocommerce-paypal-payments/modules/ppcp-wc-gateway/src/Processor/OrderProcessor.php

The error appears to be caused by the plugin trying to process the order before it’s fully initialized or before PayPal’s order is ready. ✅ What we’ve tried:

• We patched the plugin to return early instead of throwing the exception: phpCopyEditif ($this->order_helper->contains_physical_goods($order) && !$this->order_is_ready_for_process($order)) { return; }
• We also built a retry loop in a custom action handler using woocommerce_paypal_payments_checkout_order_approved that retries order processing every few seconds up to 5 times.

This has prevented fatal errors, but we’d love to know:

• Is this something being worked on?
• Can the plugin include retry logic internally?
• Or can the webhook handler at least fail gracefully?

Let me know if logs or additional details would help.

Thanks!