Serial Number Generation after Sale

[myallenmedia]

I’m wondering if you have a function that will create a serial number/registration number after a sale. I’ve looked in the software and didn’t see anything like this so I wanted to ask.

[wzp]

Update: A serial/license key selling feature has been added to the plugin. Details of this feature here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-the-seriallicense-key-code-selling-feature-1618

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https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/selling-a-digital-download-with-a-license-key

[myallenmedia]

Where is this below option in the WP eStore Settings area?

1) WP eStore has an option where it passes the IPN received from PayPal to another script after the post payment processing. So you can use this option to send the IPN to your license generator script which will extract the customers email address and the transaction ID and use it. After you generate a license key simply send it via email separately. This option will not require any code modification on the eStore’s side.

[Peter]

Hi,

I think Admin was referring to the “POST IPN to a 3rd Party Application” section which has a field called “Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Post URL”

[myallenmedia]

I assume it’s still ok to use this without having to setup the Paypal IPN settings? Right now I don’t have any settings in Paypal IPN (Default).

[Peter]

Hi,

When you opened your PayPal account, the IPN should’ve been enabled by default.

If you can currently see the IPN being sent from paypal when you are making normal purchases using eStore then you don’t have make any changes to your paypal settings.

Otherwise if you explicitly turned IPN off then you will need to enable it so that PayPal sends this back to eStore which will in turn forward it to your third party script.

[myallenmedia]

I just setup a new Paypal account and it’s disabled. I assume there is only one place and that is in the IPN notification area where you checkbox it to enable to send ipn messages. This is off by default or I’m in the wrong area.

[Peter]

Hi,

I’m not sure if PayPal have changed their menus around but the point is that you most probably do not have to change anything in your PayPal account.

One sure way to confirm that you are receiving IPN messages back from PayPal is to enable debug in eStore and then check the ipn_handle_debug.log file.

If you see something like the following line then IPN messages are definitely being sent:

[01/11/2012 1:43 AM] – SUCCESS :IPN successfully verified.

[myallenmedia]

All I know is that this plugin is working wonderfully and I haven’t had to change anything on the Paypal side. Customers purchase and download their products and it’s a good thing.

One question though, I have another site and I want to charge membership fees to join. Will I need to change anything on Paypal in order to do recurring billing? If so, will that affect my other site where I sell digital downloads? I only have one Paypal account.

[Peter]

Hi,

No you will not have to do any changes to your PayPal profiel for recurring billing.

To achieve recurring billing you will simply have to create a subscription product in eStore.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-add-a-subscription-button-for-recurring-payment-400

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