Paypal IPN Field is Occupied

Hi @peteinthelight

Thank you for using Paid Memberships Pro.

This will require a bit of custom code to achieve, you may follow this guide – https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/redirect-the-paypal-ipn-for-pmpro-to-woocommerce/

This is an example for redirecting the PayPal IPN from another plugin’s URL to Paid Memberships Pro.This guide hooks in on init and looks for a specific URL (the one defined inside PayPal) and then includes the Paid Memberships Pro IPN handler via PHP.

I hope this helps get you started.

Hi Andrew, thanks for your reply.

Our other service providing an IPN URL is not from a plugin within WordPress, but another website. So I don’t know if your solution covers this (I’m also running the free version of PMP and cannot access the content at that link).

I called PayPal who said we may need to setup a child PayPal account to work in conjunction with our main parent PayPal account.. Just to get a space to enter another space to enter an IPN. Another man from PayPal said possibly a PayPal developer app could be setup using “Rest API” may work.. but he wasn’t sure.

Something feels quite limiting around this. I’ve used other membership plugins before but can’t recall hitting this roadblock. I hear IPN’s are a more dated form of PayPal integration as opposed to web hooks… I’ve no idea, but if I can’t get this setup I may need to explore other membership plugins. Despite this I don’t want to give up too early. I’m not a proficient developer, so putting a plea out to the universe here to see if there’s some other approach to this. Is the IPN crucial.. is it possible some other tool can fill in for the IPN’s functionality? Asking for a miracle. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, you may be able to POST all data received by your non-WordPress IPN. Paid Memberships Pro IPN handler is ‘smart enough’ to figure out if the IPN request is for PMPro or not. We also try to automatically set the IPN URL during the checkout process, but I believe that PayPal will overwrite the IPN URL if it’s set inside the PayPal merchant account and sometimes is required by PayPal depending on the merchant’s country. You may leave the IPN blank and run some tests to see if it has any negative impacts in both separate applications/websites.

We are looking to support newer versions of PayPal in the future but I do not have any ETA when this will be available.

If you need further assistance with this and a workaround, I recommend reaching out to local WordPress developer or post to jobs.wordpress.net for assistance.