About: 87soccerb

I don’t know if this will help, but this is an example of a refund I initiated on my paypal account for a test user, but the automatic EOT didn’t prevent the charge from occurring again the next billing period. I’m wondering if the part at the very bottom of the log where it says Unable to verify `$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”] is what’s causing me problems.

LOG ENTRY: Thu Jun 13th, 2013 @ precisely 3:19 am UTC
PHP v5.3.24 :: WordPress® v3.5.1 :: s2Member® v130513 :: s2Member® Pro v130513
Memory 19.29 MB :: Real Memory 19.75 MB :: Peak Memory 19.35 MB :: Real Peak Memory 19.75 MB
http://www.thinkbuilddream.com/?s2member_paypal_notify=1
User-Agent:
array (
‘transaction_subject’ => ”,
‘payment_date’ => ’20:19:44 Jun 12, 2013 PDT’,
‘last_name’ => ‘test_XXXX’,
‘receipt_id’ => ‘1591-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX’,
‘residence_country’ => ‘US’,
‘item_name’ => ”,
‘payment_gross’ => ‘-4.99’,
‘mc_currency’ => ‘USD’,
‘business’ => ‘admin@thinkbuilddream.com’,
‘payment_type’ => ‘instant’,
‘protection_eligibility’ => ‘Ineligible’,
‘verify_sign’ => ‘A2Ab3TV1KoEWBTo5Y55GiXA2cdWNAgdc.6LraHdoeJmQS-Z8SxsApTG.’,
‘payer_email’ => ‘XXXXX@gmail.com’,
‘txn_id’ => ‘3R843XXXXXXXXXX’,
‘receiver_email’ => ‘admin@thinkbuilddream.com’,
‘first_name’ => ‘test_Bro’,
‘parent_txn_id’ => ‘0PA76XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’,
‘payer_id’ => ‘QGXXXXXXXXXXXXx’,
‘receiver_id’ => ’45RXXXXXXXXXXXXX’,
‘reason_code’ => ‘refund’,
‘item_number’ => ”,
‘handling_amount’ => ‘0.00’,
‘payment_status’ => ‘Refunded’,
‘payment_fee’ => ‘-0.14’,
‘mc_fee’ => ‘-0.14’,
‘shipping’ => ‘0.00’,
‘mc_gross’ => ‘-4.99’,
‘custom’ => ”,
‘charset’ => ‘windows-1252’,
‘notify_version’ => ‘3.7’,
‘ipn_track_id’ => ‘3cc6d0c255c46’,
‘s2member_log’ =>
array (
0 => ‘IPN received on: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:19:48 am UTC’,
1 => ‘s2Member POST vars verified through a POST back to PayPal®.’,
2 => ‘Unable to verify `$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]`. Please check the `custom` value in your Button Code. It MUST start with your domain name.’,
),
‘subscr_gateway’ => ‘paypal’,
)

And Bruce, if this is at all helpful, my PayPal Manager is not showing any recurring billing profiles, in case it should. It does show the transactions taking place, on the home page, but no actual recurring profiles. I don’t know if that’s a problem or not.

alright, so this is what I get when the user purchases the recurring subscription with their paypal account:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/14xOt269Yn6HIbpZtiqNls-_PcPNH5hnefbpyzuBqTA01EBfoxsZOA9fG959f/edit?usp=sharing

Just with an update:

I got the recurring billing to work! I have no idea what I did, but I got the payflow form to process my credit card and create my membership as a unique user on the site. I have no idea what I did, but thankfully I didn’t have to go through that other process of setting up the payflow link because I had no idea what was going on there. I’ll recap for others who are having the same problem.

To recap my problems so others with the same problem can avoid my mistakes:
1.) I purchased the website payments pro through PayPal .. all is good and fine with that.
2.) Logged in to Paypal manager, which I eventually realized is the same thing as “PayFlow” (and I had a PayPal support rep confirm me that I did, in fact, have the Paypal Pro, Payflow edition)
3.) After initially logging into PayFlow, I realized I didn’t have the recurring billing needed for S2 Member’s subscription payment plan
4.) Purchased the “recurring billing” addon for $10/month (but at the same time purchased Payflow Link for $0 and was forced to create a new a Payflow account, but could never activate the same
5.) At this point, I had two Payflow accounts.
6.) Was getting frustrated because the setup for the Payflow link with the recurring billing required me to enter some kind of “existing internet merchant account” payment processor details, which I had absolutely no idea what to do with because I didn’t have an existing internet merchant account.
7.) Went back to my ORIGINAL Payflow account (that I ORIGINALLY did NOT have the recurring billing add on for, which is why I mistakenly created the 2nd Payflow account to accommodate the recurring billing addon that I needed for the subscription aspect of s2 member pro that I wanted for my website) and clicked on the “Buy” button for the Recurring Billing add on.
8.) It said that it was unable to process the transaction at the time because there were no forms available to fill out, and I would have to come back and try again.
9.) Anyways, I logged out and logged back in, and lo and behold! … I have recurring billing on my ORIGINAL account!
10.) SUCCESS! I was able to pay with my VISA credit card on my site this time and create a monthly paying subscriber test user (mind you I made sure to double check on my S2 Member settings page in my wordpress admin panel that my PayPal API login details were correct and that also I had the right PayFlow login details correct as well).
11.) NOW … HOPEFULLY everything from here on out will go swimmingly, including being able to pay with all the other options such as mastercard and PayPal accounts. Additionally, once the site had processed my credit card details it took me back to my Register page, so I think that’s just a matter of configuration in the wordpress administration page to take new users to the “Welcome” page for their first time logging in.

Inhale, exhale. It pays to be a winner.

Hopefully, you won’t be hearing from me again, for my sake and for yours.

Brandon