IPN operations/history

Select the IPN messages to review. You can specify a date range, delivery status, and PayPal transaction ID.

Review the IPN History search results, which contain the following information:

• The date and time that PayPal created the IPN message.

• Whether this IPN message was the original message or whether it was re-sent, which is indicated in the Date/time created column.

• The IPN message ID assigned by PayPal.

• The current status, which is one of the following values:

  • Sent - PayPal sent the message to your IPN listener.

  • Failed - PayPal did not receive an acknowledgment to the message.

  • Queued - PayPal is ready to send the message.

  • Retrying - The message was re-sent between 1 and 15 times and PayPal continues to resend the message.

  • Disabled - The message will not be re-sent because the merchant's account has been disabled.

    Note: If you requested that PayPal resend the IPN message and the status is not updated for the attempt, resending is appended to the status. For example: Failed - resending.

• Your server's response to the HTTPS POST that delivered the IPN message to your listener. For more information about these codes, see RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.

• If the message is related to a PayPal transaction, the ID of the PayPal transaction associated with the message.

To see more information about an IPN message, click on the message ID. In addition to the information on the IPN History page, the details contain the following information:

• Whether this IPN message was the original message or whether it was re-sent.
• The last time the message was re-sent.
• The URL on which your listener was running when the message was sent.
• The number of retries before the message was successfully acknowledged.
• The type of IPN message.