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‘Paypal and Paypal IPN’

This tutorial explains in some detail what you can do to get the most from a Paypal Buy Now button. There are many options available to you and I include example code where possible. Paypal has some really good documentation on the subject so I have also included links to their site.
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Question: The “Buy Now” button was easier than I thought. What extra options are available.
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Question: I want a really simple “Buy Now” button on my website. How do I do it.

Answer: Use Paypal Website Payments Standard. Its very easy to set up. The customer clicks a “Buy Now” button. They are taken to Paypal’s site where they enter their card details or pay from their paypal account if they have one. The money then appears in your paypal account.
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Instant Payment Notification is better known as Paypal IPN and is Paypal’s interface for handling real time confirmation of purchases.

A typical use for IPN is where you want a customer to pay for a software download but there can be more to it than that and the IPN interface provides a wealth of options some of which I will go through in this article.
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This paypal ipn tutorial explains how to use Paypals IPN system with a simple single item purchase. Instant Payment Notification allows you to integrate your PayPal payments with your website’s back-end operations, so you get immediate notification and authentication of the PayPal payments you receive. The main use of IPN is where your website needs to know immediately that payment has been made. For example you might have sold something that you will then make available for the user to download.

There is a lot of information on the Paypal website which is worth looking at but the following paypal ipn example will show you in detail a real world example of how to use it.

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