Delay in Receiving Registration and Store Emails

I sent my Store live 24 hours ago.

I have received some traffic with orders and user registrations.

However, I have not received any registration or order notifications.

It all worked with the SandBox and with a test before going live.

Did you have this working on a testing server? Changing the store to use the sandbox versus live server has no effect on the email code. When a user registers they should receive the email. Have you tested out the user registration portion to see if you get a verification email?

Also, are you specifying to cc or bcc your email address in the admin settings for new orders? As a test you can try putting back in sandbox mode then test this out again to confirm that you are getting emails. If you have changed servers then you might need to update your SMTP server in the site settings. Please post back and let us know the results of your testing.

Originally Said By: Eric Mittman

  Did you have this working on a testing server? Changing the store to use the sandbox versus live server has no effect on the email code. When a user registers they should receive the email. Have you tested out the user registration portion to see if you get a verification email?

Also, are you specifying to cc or bcc your email address in the admin settings for new orders? As a test you can try putting back in sandbox mode then test this out again to confirm that you are getting emails. If you have changed servers then you might need to update your SMTP server in the site settings. Please post back and let us know the results of your testing.  

Hi Eric,

Thanks for answering my message.

The answer to all of the questions in your message is yes.

While testing the site in the Sandbox is had the blind carbon copy (bcc) and carbon copy (CC)
set up and did receive emails.

I left the bcc and cc settings in tact once the site went live to make sure everything was working correctly.

This morning I called PayPal to have them test the site to make sure it was again working properly. It is.

What we discover was the following.

First I should tell you I am using "PayPal Express" in this Store.

I have visitors to my site that go through the process of placing an order but at the point of clicking the submit
button they stop the process.

To PS3 this looks like the customer has placed an order since they went to Paypal and logged in, so it updates
the Admin Section of the Program as if there were a sale but in fact no sale was made.

I check each customer record with Paypal and in fact no sales was made.

I called one of the customers and was told they wanted to check what the finally price
would be with shipping and tax before placing the order. Then decided not to place the order.

WIth PayPal Express they do not see this until after they log in to Paypal and then are switched back to my
site to finalize the Order.

I just wish I had sees this possibility during the testing with the Sandbox.

I wish I could figure out how to stop this from happening. so that I will not have the
impression that all the orders are valid when in fact they are not.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

I am thinking PS3 needs a cancel button next to the submit button so that the customer can opt out of the
sale and not just leave the page.

The cancel button will empty out the shopping cart at the same time it cancels the sale.

If the program already does this let me know.

Again, I am using PayPal Express in this Store and have Flat Rate Shipping set up.

Hello,

I sent my site live on Monday, 24 May 2010.

I posted I had a program with receiving notifications but have found out that the problem is some thing completely different.

I am using PayPal Express on my site with PowerStore 3.

When a customer clicks the PayPal button in the Shopping Bag and is taken to the PayPal and signs do what they have to do there
Then they are then taken back to my site to complete the transaction.

This is where the problem is.

Once the customer clicks the submit button on my site, according to Patrick at PayPal, the "Payer ID is not being Passed" back to PayPal.

So what I am seeing is, PS3 has the order listed in Admin but when I go to my PayPal account the transaction is not completed.

The transfer of funds to my PayPal account is not done.

The customer does not receive a receipt or notification that the transaction was completed.

I do not receive notification from PayPal that the sale transaction has happen.

According to Patrick the following two errors are being created on the PayPal Side:

Error 10419
Error 10406

Both of these errors indicated that the "Payer ID is not being Passed" to PayPal.

I do not see these Errors in PowerStore 3.

I have checked the Forum and can not find anything on this so I am posting here for help.

I really need some help with this ASAP.

I am waiting for some documentation from PayPal on this and will post it just as soon as I receive it.
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Sheila

I think that this may be an issue that is fixed with an updated version of the Express Checkout files that go into PowerStore, here is a link to the post with these updated files:

showpost.php?p=58260&postcount=1

Please replace the files with the ones from this post and check it again. This should resolve the problem with the PayerID missing in the api interactions on the pp_confirm page. Please post back and let us know how this works for you.