Title: Hook for submit?
Last modified: December 2, 2019

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# Hook for submit?

 *  Resolved [mifydnu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mifydnu/)
 * (@mifydnu)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hook-for-submit/)
 * Is there an action hook for the ‘buynow’ button? I don’t see it, but I’ve been
   known to look over the obvious…
 * In case there’s a better way, here’s what I’m trying to do:
    I have a cart full
   of items. I want to process payment for them but I don’t want to create a transaction
   in my database until the user actually attempt to check out. So… I’m looking 
   for a hook that I can use to fire a function that creates a transaction with 
   the user’s cart items and awaits return from paypal (via an IPN notification)
   to update the transaction – success of failure.
 * I admit I’m having a little bit of “coder’s block” here. This seems like it should
   be easy, which makes me feel like I’m missing something. I don’t want to create
   transaction records too early; users can simply walk away and I’m left with a
   bunch of abandoned transaction records attached to abandoned carts. If I’ve missed
   something in the general ‘digital purchase’ workflow, appreciate any advice from
   others. If not, and there’s a hook for the ‘buynow’ button, thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [mifydnu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mifydnu/)
 * (@mifydnu)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hook-for-submit/#post-12202682)
 * Resolved another way.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hook-for-submit/#post-12202682)
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