Title: IPN settings?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# IPN settings?

 *  Resolved [TIEro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/)
 * (@tiero)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/)
 * Two questions, if I may…
 * 1. There’s no detail or option for settings for the IPN messages. To where should
   I point IPN on PayPal so that the plugin picks up the incoming details?
 * 2. I’m trawling through the code to see where I can add a bit of pre-processing
   to update custom stuff on my site before sending the order off to PayPal (e.g.
   update a user’s balance) – if you had a sec to point me to where I can do this,
   it’d save me a load of time. 🙂
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-paypal/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-paypal/)

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 *  Thread Starter [TIEro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/)
 * (@tiero)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257667)
 * Third question (sorry!): is there a way to set it to allow users to specify their
   own amount?
 *  Thread Starter [TIEro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/)
 * (@tiero)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257689)
 * Update: forget question 2. I’ll go for post-processing with return URLs and confirmation
   through IPN. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/)
 * (@naa986)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257730)
 * [@tiero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/), That may not be possible
   since the data is posted directly to PayPal.
 * IPN URL is automatically generated by the plugin. So there is nothing for you
   to configure. As long as you have it enabled in your PayPal account, the plugin
   should be able to process new sale notification.
 *  Thread Starter [TIEro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/)
 * (@tiero)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257756)
 * Thanks for the reply. Figured out 2 and 3 (just needed an approach from a different
   angle), but the IPN thing… it has to be set to something or PP won’t accept it.
   Should I set it to the main site URL?
 *  Plugin Author [Noor Alam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naa986/)
 * (@naa986)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257786)
 * If it’s a required a field you can just set it to your main site URL for now (
   The plugin will override it anyway).
 *  Thread Starter [TIEro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiero/)
 * (@tiero)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn-settings/#post-7257799)
 * Tried messing around with it for a while, but it kept throwing errors in the 
   debug log (invalid transmissions and stuff). Found an alternative that just does
   the IPN and, since I don’t need the button producer, switched to that.

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