{"id":1548467,"date":"2018-06-07T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-paypal-purchase-succeeds-but-is-not-recorded-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:44:25","slug":"event-ticket-paypal-purchase-succeeds-but-is-not-recorded-in-wordpress","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-paypal-purchase-succeeds-but-is-not-recorded-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Ticket PayPal purchase succeeds but is not recorded in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>We recently set up Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus to start selling paid tickets for events. However, after performing the required PayPal setup, including setting a proper IPN URL, we have been unable to get ticket purchases to be recorded. The PayPal transaction runs fine, and the money is transferred, and PayPal records sending an IPN to the site. The ticket is never created and of course the user is not notified.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to purchase the ticket again with the same PayPal account yields the following PayPal error: &#8220;This invoice has already been paid. For more information, please contact the merchant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that our ticket test was set up on a recurring event. However, an unpaid &#8220;RSVP&#8221; worked fine, so it seems like the issue is with the IPN handler or something isn&#8217;t 100% correct in our PayPal setup.<\/p>\n<p>We disabled the tickets added to this event because we couldn&#8217;t get payments to reliably work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1548467","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event Ticket PayPal purchase succeeds but is not recorded in WordPress -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-ticket-paypal-purchase-succeeds-but-is-not-recorded-in-wordpress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event Ticket PayPal purchase succeeds but is not recorded in WordPress -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, We recently set up Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus to start selling paid tickets for events. 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