XF 1.1 User Upgrades Not Applying

[The Observer]

So we just instituted a user subscription system at:

http://forums.spacebattles.com

I have now had over $100 of money contributed towards subscriptions... and none of them have applied! I had done a test subscription with my own paypal account being used to pay for the upgrade (we have a separate business account where the upgrade money is going into) and it worked fine.

Why all of a sudden would it not work? More importantly, can I save this situation?

Using notification URL: http://forums.spacebattles.com/payment_callback.php.

 

[Liam W]

So we just instituted a user subscription system at:

http://forums.spacebattles.com

I have now had over $100 of money contributed towards subscriptions... and none of them have applied! I had done a test subscription with my own paypal account being used to pay for the upgrade (we have a separate business account where the upgrade money is going into) and it worked fine.

Why all of a sudden would it not work? More importantly, can I save this situation?

Using notification URL: http://forums.spacebattles.com/payment_callback.php.

The notification URL you enter into PayPal doesn't actually matter - it's submitted when the purchase is made, you just have to set one to enable IPN's.

There is a payments log in the AdminCP. You should check that to see if there are any validation errors.

admin.php?user-upgrades/transaction-log

Just remember that if your default IPN URL is set to the forum, then every transaction on your PayPal account will add an entry to that log.

Liam

 

[The Observer]

The notification URL you enter into PayPal doesn't actually matter - it's submitted when the purchase is made, you just have to set one to enable IPN's.

There is a payments log in the AdminCP. You should check that to see if there are any validation errors.

admin.php?user-upgrades/transaction-log

Just remember that if your default IPN URL is set to the forum, then every transaction on your PayPal account will add an entry to that log.

Liam

It is saying that that page doesn't exist. Are you sure it is a "/" between upgrades and transaction?

 

[Liam W]

It is saying that that page doesn't exist. Are you sure it is a "/" between upgrades and transaction?

Yes, my mistake sorry - I didn't notice you're using XF 1.1, that log was added in a later version.

Unfortunately, it does make it a bit harder to debug, as there's no way of knowing what the validation script is doing/getting wrong.

Is it running correctly? You can check PayPal's IPN logs to check that it was successfully executed.

Also, is the funding coming from people purchasing the upgrade? Silly question, but just wanted to check all angles

Liam

 

[The Observer]

Yes, my mistake sorry - I didn't notice you're using XF 1.1, that log was added in a later version.

Unfortunately, it does make it a bit harder to debug, as there's no way of knowing what the validation script is doing/getting wrong.

Is it running correctly? You can check PayPal's IPN logs to check that it was successfully executed.

Also, is the funding coming from people purchasing the upgrade? Silly question, but just wanted to check all angles

Liam

Yes the funding is coming from people going through the forum account upgrades.

I'll check the logs...



Well I'm glad to see that the transactions aren't lost forever!

 

[The Observer]

HTTP response code 500

 

[The Observer]

Was the notification url needed in 1.1?

Could it be a different location for 1.1, so that is not the correct URL?

 

[Liam W]

HTTP response code 500

So, something is causing the request to fail.

The script returns 500 generally when the validation fails.

That could happen for several reasons:

• The charged price isn't the same as the price of the upgrade
• The token passed to PayPal back to the validator isn't correct
• The user isn't valid
• The currency paid was different to the one you set
• And a few more...

Could any of them be the issue?

Was the notification url needed in 1.1?

Could it be a different location for 1.1, so that is not the correct URL?

No - like I said, XenForo passes the validation callback to PayPal. The one you set doesn't do anything, it just enables IPN's.

Liam

 

[The Observer]

Ok, so I'll be totally honest and say that I have no idea how to even start troubleshooting this given the options you listed above.

My biggest concern is I don't want to accidentally eliminate the backlog of requests it is still trying to send, from the looks of things it should apply as soon as I get this worked out.

 

[Liam W]

Ok, so I'll be totally honest and say that I have no idea how to even start troubleshooting this given the options you listed above.

My biggest concern is I don't want to accidentally eliminate the backlog of requests it is still trying to send, from the looks of things it should apply as soon as I get this worked out.

PayPal will stop sending requests after a number of failures, although the rate at which it retries slows down with every fail.

I'll check the confirmation class again, to see exactly where it could go wrong.

EDIT: @The Observer do you have any server errors?

One major thing, is the money being sent to the same email address that is set as the PayPal primary account on the user upgrades page?

 

[The Observer]

PayPal will stop sending requests after a number of failures, although the rate at which it retries slows down with every fail.

I'll check the confirmation class again, to see exactly where it could go wrong.

EDIT: @The Observer do you have any server errors?

One major thing, is the money being sent to the same email address that is set as the PayPal primary account on the user upgrades page?

No server error log entries.

I... uhmm... I had changed the primary e-mail address. That one was still ON there, just changed from primary. Could that be it? I just changed it back.

 

[Liam W]

No server error log entries.

I... uhmm... I had changed the primary e-mail address. That one was still ON there, just changed from primary. Could that be it? I just changed it back.

Almost certainly. The primary email option has to match the email used to pay.

I just noticed something as well, in your database is there a table by the name of xf_user_upgrade_log?

If so, look in there - it'll tell you where it's failing

Liam

 

[The Observer]

Almost certainly. The primary email option has to match the email used to pay.

I just noticed something as well, in your database is there a table by the name of xf_user_upgrade_log?

If so, look in there - it'll tell you where it's failing

Liam

Well that SEEMS to have worked.

I now have 5 subscribers... now I just have to hope that the backlog of previous subscribers gets processed.

If it doesn't, I'll be back for more advice!

Thanks so much.

 

[The Observer]

Judging by the fact that PP doesn't list any of the entries as "Failed" I'm going to stay optimistic.