How do you test whether a payment moved user up one level ?

Sorry I just realised my post wasn’t too clear, here’s a better one:

I have a website where users have to pay 3€ per month for a service. I used Paid Memberships Pro because it’s only a side gig for now, I’m not even sure it’ll be popular so I’m trying to gain as much time as possible. Anyway so I set it up properly ( I think ? ).

I have a button that redirects me to the Checkout page, on which I have a “Submit and pay” button or something like that, that redirects me to Stripe’s checkout page. So far so good. I’m using one of Stripe’s successful card numbers for testing purposes, with any future date and any kind of 3 figure code.

I see the little green tick, and I get redirected to the payment confirmation page. There’s my order ID, the date, the account number and the email, as well as the membership level “Sleater (Waiting)”

There’s also a text that says “if your account is not activated within the next few minutes, please contact the site’s owner”.

If I go to the order list in the admin panel, I do see the order with an ID, the amount, and the date, but the status says “Token”, and the member doesn’t get “upgraded” to the correct membership.

Why does that happen ? Isn’t the point of PMP to deal with that kind of thing ?

I’m trying it with my admin account, not sure if it’s relevant ? I did try with a new subscriber account but it didn’t work though.

Thanks !

Hi @downloadpow

You will need to make sure that 1) You’re using site that is online and the gateway can send a webhook request to it to ‘update’ the site and mark that order as a ‘success’ and 2) Your Stripe Webhooks have been set up correctly to ensure that Stripe is able to notify your site of the successful payment.

As long as Stripe can communicate with your site, it will be able to change the order status and give the user access to the content on your site.

Let me know if you have any other questions and if this helps?

Hi,

Thanks for the answer, it does help !

Yes, the site is online, though I didn’t know about that webhook thing, completely read over it to be honest. Hence why I could see webhook events being sent but never received, now it makes sense

Now I did setup the webhook in Stripe ( with the URL ending in “admin-ajax.php?action=stripe_webhook” right ? ).

In the webhook status, I still see a recent time and date for the webhooks, but still nothing was received.

Thanks again

Mael

That’s the right URL, yes. Note that it will only work for new signups after the webhook has been added.

The signups before that will need to be manually updated – you should be able to resend those webhook events from the Stripe Dashboard. If you’re unsure about how you can go about doing that, please reach out to Stripe’s Support for further assistance.

Yeah I just tried that with a different email, and it’s still not working unfortunately. It’s frustrating I know it’s a probably a silly thing that’s keeping it from working. I still do see a new “Status” date but a “Last received” still showing “N/A”

I still have no actual users so that’s fine, that’s why I want to get it up and running with an already working system.

Would you mind sending me a screenshot of the webhooks that show a status of not received so that I can take a further look?

Sure, I added them to imgur because I’ve added a screenshot of my WordPress settings for the plugins as well as the webhook on Stripe

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Let me know if you need anything else

Hmm it’s weird, I just received an email from Stripe saying this. This URL does remind me of something but I can’t remmeber what and I can’t seem to find it in my code, that’s odd

Thanks for posting these screenshots, these definitely help.

It looks like Stripe is still referencing an old webhook URL and as such, nothing is pointing to PMPro’s webhook URL now to process and update those Stripe payments.

You can obtain your webhook URL from the Payment Gateway & SSL page (below the webhook status box) and update it in Stripe under https://dashboard.stripe.com/webhooks

Oh god yes, apparently I had a leftover webhook endpoint in my test webhooks, and it was firing the webhooks there instead of the PMPro ones.. So if I get it right, the date of the last sent webhooks are ALL the webhooks, not just the ones to PMPro ?

the date of the last sent webhooks are ALL the webhooks,

That will apply for all the events that get sent to your site. It will only be one webhook URL in Stripe that points to your PMPro site.

The list will update with more recent numbers now that the webhook URL has been updated (after a checkout and later a renewal too).

Because there have not been any recent updates to this topic, we will be changing the status to resolved.

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