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eStore – Digital Product Not Sending Link

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Tips and Tricks HQ Support Portal › Forums › WP eStore Forum › WP eStore Troubleshooting › eStore – Digital Product Not Sending Link

Tagged: digital product, download link, WP eStore

  • This topic has 17 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 10 months ago by EastBound.
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  • October 18, 2016 at 12:34 pm #13776
    Sev
    Member

    Hi. I’m a bit confused!! I have several products that I sell – and all are working except for one type – a ‘digital download only’ (audio). What is weird, is that its all been working up until a few days ago. Now when someone buys the audio – they just don’t get sent the link to download it. I’ve looked at the log – and it would appear that everything is ok. Any clues as to what I should be looking for – greatly appreciated.

    October 18, 2016 at 2:22 pm #74411
    wzp
    Moderator

    1. If you go to the Admin Functions, and manually try to generate a download link; is a valid link created? If not; then check the Product Database, to see if the product is still marked as a digital download.

       

    2. Does the buyer even receive an email?

       

    October 18, 2016 at 4:13 pm #74412
    Sev
    Member

    Hi. Yes – I can create a manual download link (and it works) from the Admin functions area. But it appears that the customer does not receive the email. What should I look at next? Thanks.

    October 18, 2016 at 7:58 pm #74413
    wzp
    Moderator

    OK, now please use the Admin Functions to test whether or not email can be sent from your server, to another email address.

    If that works, then please check your debug logs to see if eStore “thinks” it is sending the email, containg the link. There should first be entries describing generation of the download link, followed by the actual sending attempt.

    It is “safe” to post unedited copies of the debug log(s) here.

    October 18, 2016 at 11:17 pm #74414
    admin
    Keymaster

    Also the following is a good post to read:

    https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/my-plugin-just-stopped-working

    October 19, 2016 at 9:18 am #74415
    Sev
    Member

    OK – so the email test works (ie WordPress has no problem sending out emails). Then I looked at the debug logs. Very strange – because I reset the logs a few days ago – and yet when I look at them now, the IPN_handle_debug is empty – yet the eStore_postpayment_debug has SOME entries – but seems to be missing some. So I did a test purcahse myself of an audio – and checked the Paypal – and confirmed that payment went through fine.

    And yet there is no record of this purchase in either the debug logs nor in the ‘manage customers’ tab. And as a customer, I did not receive an email. Very odd. I can’t work it out? what do you think?

    I will post the eStore-postpayment_debug log separately (the test payment I did took place around 10am – and this log only shows activity up to 8.59am – so don’t know why it is missing data). Many thanks.

    October 19, 2016 at 9:18 am #74416
    Sev
    Member

    [deleted log data after checking it]

    October 19, 2016 at 12:14 pm #74417
    wzp
    Moderator

    If IPN processing is not taking place, then no emails will be sent. Please review these relevent threads to determine what the situation might be:

    • https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/estore-paypal-ipn-not-working-emails-not-being-sent-ipn-debug-log-is-blank

       

    • https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/estore-blank-ipn-debug-tried-all-methods-paypal-shows-404-error-for-transact

       

    • https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/what-to-do-if-the-debug-file-is-empty

       

    October 25, 2016 at 11:12 am #74418
    Sev
    Member

    So I’ve worked through the check lists – and the latest thing was I raised a support ticket with our hosting provider (TSO) – and they confirmed that there was an issue with the Paypal IPN and they have now fixed it. But alas, the audio products are still not sending emails back to the customer, nor registering in the plugin store records. Yet non-audio products work fine – ie those that go through the eMember plugin work fine. Any other tests I could conduct to identify the issue? many thanks.

    October 26, 2016 at 2:02 am #74419
    admin
    Keymaster

    Please share a link to your products page where you have the buy button for the mp3 file so I can take a look and check the debug log data.

    Are you using the shorten URL link option? You should disable that option if you are using it.

    October 26, 2016 at 2:52 pm #74420
    Sev
    Member

    Hi. Here is a link to one of the audios:

    [http://www.genekeys.com/shop/1st-gene-key-audio/]

    We were using Bitly to shorten the url – but have stopped using that during the troubleshooting test (and the problem is still there).

    thanks!

    October 27, 2016 at 12:08 am #74421
    admin
    Keymaster

    Some of your payments are coming in as pending. Thats whey the plugin is not processing those payments. This is another of your PayPal account setup issue.

    Please fully read the following post which will help:

    https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/reasons-for-a-pending-paypal-payment

    October 27, 2016 at 4:33 pm #74422
    Sev
    Member

    Hi. Yes – a couple of pending – but one was an e-cheque – so that would be normal – and the other was a donation, so I’m asking Paypal about that. Still uncertain why audio products are not getting processed. Any other things I could check? many thanks.

    October 28, 2016 at 12:03 am #74423
    admin
    Keymaster

    Wait for paypal to address the pending payment issue. Once that is sorted, reset the log file then do ONE transaction with your audio product. The debug will reveal if anything else is still going wrong and what needs to be sorted out.

    October 29, 2016 at 2:07 pm #74424
    Sev
    Member

    Paypal report no problem (and I’ve looked at the IPN history – and it shows that the IPNs have been successfully sent out). So I reset the log and made a purchase of an audio. The download link did not get sent through to me as a customer. I’ve copied below the IPN log (and replaced sensitive info with XXXs). Any thoughts as to what I could try next? Does Paypal require https on the shop page, for example? (I’ve got an https cert for the domain – but the shop page is just http). thanks.

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